ESL College Credit Courses

Advanced ESL Listening/Conversation Skills
In this course, communication skills are emphasized and developed through oral exercises and high-interest topics. Class activities stimulate students’ imagination as well as ability to formulate ideas in a discussion format in English. The focus of these courses is on critical thinking through verbalizing in English.

ESL 95 Communicative Grammar for ESL
This is a comprehensive and dynamic course designed to help advanced ESL students to understand and practice English grammar while promoting the development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. The course aims to improve the students’ command of English and extends it outside the grammar classroom.

ESL 96 Reading English as a Second Language
This course is part of a lively reading series that helps advanced ESL students to truly understand the American environment through thought-provoking reading passages and CNN video selections which focus on current topics ranging from popular culture to technology and cyber world. Vocabulary development is also accomplished through an understanding of word roots and affixes of English.

ESL 97 Introduction to Writing Skills - ESL
This writing skills development course takes the student from paragraph writing to basic essay writing skills. The students progresses from organizational principles of good academic writing in English to major rhetorical forms such as cause and effect, classification, etc. Extensive practice in all steps of the writing process includes a grammar-refresher, mechanics, and punctuation.