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"I feel really happy in the LEAP Program. I have
learned very much and I have gotten to know a lot of people. It is
a great investment."
Luis Rojas, VENEZUELA
"The L.E.A.P. Program at Marshall
University is a real immersion in the English language.
It's a way to learn and have fun at the same time. While
you're learning English, you're also learning a lot of things
about other cultures, and you can meet people from different
countries from all around the world. It's really a good
choice!"
Claudi Neira, NICARAGUA
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Successful Completion of L.E.A.P.
Academically admissible students who successfully complete the
Fall and Spring L.E.A.P. Program are able to enter an undergraduate or graduate
degree program at Marshall University without a TOEFL or Michigan
score. "Successful completion" is indicated by receiving an overall
GPA of 2.67 83% in Level 109. Only students who successfully
complete the advanced level can graduate from the program and can
attend undergraduate programs at Marshall University. Students who
plan to attend graduate school at Marshall must pass 109 with GPA of
2.79 or 87%. (There are additional requirements for
advancement during the summer program.)
Students who complete the L.E.A.P. Program with an 83% are able
to:
- Write clearly, logically and grammatically in 50-minute essay
tests on material covered in class or researched at the library
or on the internet.
- Write a 500 - 700 word essay using pre-writing, revision, and
editing skills and a variety of styles and rhetorical patterns
(e.g. cause-and-effect, classification, comparison/contrast, description).
- Paraphrase and summarize from lectures and texts.
- Read college-level texts with minimal use of dictionary (except
for technical words) using etymology, affixes, word families,
context and inference.
- Read and comprehend most of an unadapted, non-technical text
(local newspaper, magazine, general reading) with little help
from a dictionary.
- Use the computer databases for searching library and other information
resources to conduct academic research.
- Understand conversations between native speakers, including
context, attitude, relationship, inferences and most idiomatic
expressions.
- Understand and take notes from longer formal presentations
(e.g. academic/professional lectures, news reports).
- Give and support opinion and facts in discussions on specialized
topics.
- Give a 10-minute oral presentation using persuasive argument,
analysis, or comparison/contrast as a rhetorical pattern.
Students do not have to graduate from the L.E.A.P. Program in order
to satisfy the English proficiency requirement for admission to
Marshall University. Students can also demonstrate evidence of English
proficiency in the following ways:
a. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Minimum
acceptable score is 525 (paper-based test), 197 (computer-based
test) or 70 (iBT) for graduate study and 500 (paper-based test), 173 (computer-based
test) or 61 (iBT) for undergraduate study.
b. Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) - The
minimum acceptable score is 82% for graduate study and 79% for
undergraduate study.
c. A minimum score of 6.5 on the International English Language
Testing System (IELTS) for graduate study and 6 for undergraduate
study.
d. Diploma or degree from an English speaking school - A degree
or a diploma from an accredited secondary school, college or university
in which the language of instruction is English.
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