CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS (ELEMENTARY) (Stanfort Academy)

Minimum Age

• 9 years

Academic qualification

• A pass in Primary 5 Level Education in home country

Language Proficiency requirement

• Obtain between 10 to 20 marks in Stanfort Academy English Placement test

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AREAS:

• Language Activities: Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing
• Situations and Functions:
• Situations where fixed expressions are often used and which are relevant to student’s life
• Functions which are commonly used in daily communication
• Vocabulary and Topics: That draw on simple vocabulary and terms and communicative Expressions related to students’ feelings and familiar happenings and that relate to the daily lives, manners and customs, stories, geography, history, etc. of the country they are in (i.e. Singapore) and the peoples of the world, focusing on countries that use English.
• Language Elements: Speech Sounds, Grammatical Items: Sentence Patterns, tenses, pronouns etc.

EVALUATION CRITERIA AND METHODS:

Homework is checked for completeness, accuracy, and/or understanding

Class work is evaluated overall by the teacher; quizzes, multiple choice, short answers and/or open-response items are given as needed to check comprehension and development of skills

Monthly test consists of multiple choice, short answer

Completion test (to be issued certificates) is a combination of proficiency and achievement tests

* Qualitative and quantitative assessments are made on students throughout the course. The qualitative one is the overall evaluation by class teacher and the quantitative one is the students?performance in the monthly test. To proceed to the higher level in English, students are required to get average score of 70 throughout the course and get 75 in the test taken at the end of the previous course.