The program recognizes the complexity of the Canadian linguistic situation with students from many diverse backgrounds. Therefore, practice in the use of grammatical structures in meaningful and functional contexts is actively encouraged. In every level of the program, there is a balanced focus on language use and language knowledge.
The course reflects this balance through rigorous and comprehensive exercises and activities which emphasize grammatical structures and lexical elements to enhance the core skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Oxbridge Prep’s program offers a wide variety of resource materials which reflect a rich variety of language forms such as poetry, prose extracts from newspapers, journals, magazines, fiction and non-fiction texts.
The course also focuses on samples and the replication of such samples of multiple modes of written expression including description, narration, exposition, argumentation and persuasion.
The selections and exercises are intended to stimulate core skills and provide copious opportunities for the development of comprehension skills as well as creative responses.
Throughout the various levels of the course students will learn how to:
Oxbridge Prep offers ample practice in pre-writing, composition and rhetoric activities.
Speaking, reading, critical and analytic thinking are acquired based on print and non-print stimulus materials.
Writing is treated as a process in which elements of subject matter, form, audience and purpose are all inter-related. Carefully thought out and planned writing tasks and activities allow for the various functions of writing and the program fosters the logical development of writing modes from personal/expressive to the transactional/expository.
Oxbridge Prep emphasizes the connections between the comprehension and composition processes of writing and exercises in grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation are directly related to and integrated with the various writing functions.
Free response and structured activities and exercises are employed for evaluation informally and formally through quizzes and tests.
Vocabulary, grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization and other grammatical structures and lexical items are explored and evaluated through myriad exercises which include word building and word study drills as well as structured writing tasks.
Free and aesthetic response exercises offer students the opportunities for using imagination, insight and creativity.
The synthesis of language activities within the program provides a framework for a variety of teaching, learning and evaluation approaches which allow for knowledge acquisition and the understanding of the rich possibilities of language use for both individual and socio-cultural development.
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