ESL courses are designed to assist students not only with their English skills but also with the transition to living in the United States.  In ESL courses, you will have the opportunity to examine the experiences you are having within other classes, the American academic system, and academic coursework while strengthening your English language skills.  In the past, these courses have significantly helped international and exchange students succeed in their other academic courses.

This course is not represented to lead to employment in any occupation or job title.

 

 

 

The curriculum used is focused to give the learners a strong foundation in communicative skills, and to provide them with as much opportunity as possible to use these newly acquired skills to function as mature, responsible citizens.

 

Throughout the program, students have the opportunity to personalize the language they learn, to make use of their own world knowledge, and to express their ideas and opinions. Information sharing activities are used to allow for a maximum amount of student‑generated communication.

 

Students' productive skills are developed through speaking and writing tasks, and their receptive skills are developed through listening and reading. Both production and comprehension form the basis of language learning. The program teaches students to understand English that is at a higher level than they can produce, and this prepares them to make the transition from the classroom to the real world.

 

Different kinds of learning activities are used throughout the program. These include whole class activities and tasks done in small groups, pairs, or individually. This variation allows for a change of pace within lessons. Extensive use of pair work and group work activities allows for both large and small classes, and gives students a greater amount of individual practice through interaction with others in the classroom.

 

The teacher's role is to present and model new learning items; however, during pair work, group work. And role-play activities. the teacher's role is that of a facilitator. Here the teacher's primary function is to prepare students for an activity and then let them complete it using their own resources. During this phase, the teacher gives informal feedback to students and encourages maximum student participation.

 

The learners' role is to participate actively and creatively in learning, using both the material studied in the program and their own knowledge and language resources. Students are treated as intelligent adults with ideas and opinions of their own. They learn through interacting with others in pair or group activities and draw on both previous learning as well as their own communicative skills.