English as a Second Language

This course introduces pronunciation strategies and techniques to comprehend English speech and improve the clarity and fluency of spoken English. During the course, students develop their oral communication skills for speech talks and pair/group interactions in academic and professional settings. The course focuses on prosodic features such as phrase stress, intonation, connected speech phenomena, and rhythm as well as individual consonant and vowel sounds. The students also develop their listening comprehension of academic talks through activities that bring awareness of how speakers use prosodic and discourse markers to convey their intended meanings and highlight key information..

This course offers advanced-level readers intensive practice with reading and writing tasks in various writing genres involving familiar and unfamiliar topics. It provides ample opportunities to develop students’ reading speed, vocabulary-building and reading strategies, and their ability to comprehend college content reading materials in depth and independently. Purposefully selected reading tasks enhance students’ understanding of complex structures and help improve their summarizing, synthesizing, and inferencing skills. Students also engage in critical oral and written discussions of college texts, thereby also enhancing their critical thinking, argumentative, written, and oral skills.

This course provides opportunities for developing linguistic competencies essential for academic writing. It covers the processes and practice of formal audience writing. It focuses on developing a clear thesis statement, writing concisely and with grammatical accuracy, revising, editing, and adopting writing for different purposes. Key components of academic discourse, such as academic integrity, organizational strategies, and professional expectations are also included.

This course focuses on developing sophisticated linguistic competencies essential for academic work across disciplines. Students will analyze and implement complex grammatical structures found in authentic academic texts, with emphasis on hedging devices, reporting verbs, back-shifting verb forms, and advanced syntactical patterns. Through intensive engagement with scholarly articles and academic writing tasks, students will enhance their ability to process and produce higher-level academic discourse in both written and spoken forms. The course integrates advanced academic vocabulary development, rhetorical strategies, and discipline-specific conventions while providing opportunities to work with research-based materials from various academic fields.

This course provides advanced practice in public speaking required in academic and other professional settings. Students will have the opportunity to plan and deliver academic presentations, develop research and organizational skills, self-assess and peer-assess oral research and poster presentations, and improve their English oral accuracy and fluency. The course also covers performance issues in academic presentations, such as oral delivery, the use of visual aids, audience accommodation, and non-verbal behavior. Course fulfills 3 credits of Global Perspective or Core Elective requirements; additional 3 credits applied as General Elective credits.

In this course, students are introduced to critical inquiry and analysis of literary texts and the methods, techniques, and materials of argumentative research writing. The course guides students as they form research questions related to their areas of interest, develop an appropriate research strategy, review and think critically about the information gathered through various sources, and write a short research paper that reviews and cite sources appropriately. Emphasis is placed on summarizing, integrating, comparing, critiquing, and documenting academic material for a specialized audience.

Courses in the General English track are designed for adult English language learners who need to improve their English language abilities in everyday, social, academic, and professional situations within U.S. cultural framework. Students will also practice and engage in reading and writing using different genres and experiences, using general and academic vocabulary. These courses will help students to develop strategies to extend their language learning outside of the classroom through fun but challenging theme based information.

Courses in the General English track are designed for adult English language learners who need to improve their English language abilities in everyday, social, academic, and professional situations within U.S. cultural framework. Students will also practice and engage in reading and writing using different genres and experiences, using general and academic vocabulary. These courses will help students to develop strategies to extend their language learning outside of the classroom through fun but challenging theme based information.

Courses in the General English track are designed for adult English language learners who need to improve their English language abilities in everyday, social, academic, and professional situations within U.S. cultural framework. Students will improve their fluency in speaking and increase their listening comprehension of conversational interactions and extended discourse. Classroom activities will simulate authentic communicative tasks relevant to students' lives. These courses will help students to develop strategies to extend their language learning outside of the classroom through fun but challenging theme based information.

Courses in the General English track are designed for adult English language learners who need to improve their English language abilities in everyday, social, academic, and professional situations within U.S. cultural framework. These courses will help students to develop strategies to extend their language learning outside of the classroom through fun but challenging theme based information.

Courses in the General English track are designed for adult English language learners who need to improve their English language abilities in everyday, social, academic, and professional situations within U.S. cultural framework. Students will improve their fluency in speaking and increase their listening comprehension of conversational interactions and extended discourse. Classroom activities will simulate authentic communicative tasks relevant to students' lives. These courses will help students to develop strategies to extend their language learning outside of the classroom through fun but challenging theme based information.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire listening skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-Low” to “Novice-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their listening skills through practice with level-appropriate listening activities, prepared and authentic listening texts, discussions on related topics, and Internet and multimedia resources. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-Low” to “Novice-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-Low” to “Novice-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-Low” to “Novice-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements.

This course is a part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire the grammar skills necessary to read, write, speak, and understand English as a Second Language at the “Novice-Low” to “Novice-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-High” to “Intermediate-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0085, ESLN0086, ESLN0087, ESLN0088, and ESLN0089) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-High” to “Intermediate-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0085, ESLN0086, ESLN0087, ESLN0088, and ESLN0089) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-High” to “Intermediate-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0085, ESLN0086, ESLN0087, ESLN0088, and ESLN0089) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire the grammar skills necessary to read, write, speak, and understand English as a Second Language at the “Novice-High” to “Intermediate-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0085, ESLN0086, ESLN0087, ESLN0088, and ESLN0089) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire listening skills in English as a Second Language at the “Novice-High” to “Intermediate-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their listening skills through practice with level-appropriate listening activities, prepared and authentic listening texts, discussions on related topics, and Internet and multimedia resources. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0085, ESLN0086, ESLN0087, ESLN0088, and ESLN0089) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-Low” to “Intermediate-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0090, ESLN0091, ESLN0092, ESLN0093, and ESLN0094) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-Low” to “Intermediate-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. Instruction also includes a focus on drafting, editing, and proofreading texts. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0090, ESLN0091, ESLN0092, ESLN0093, and ESLN0094) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-Low” to “Intermediate-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0090, ESLN0091, ESLN0092, ESLN0093, and ESLN0094) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire the grammar skills necessary to read, write, speak, and understand English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-Low” to “Intermediate-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0090, ESLN0091, ESLN0092, ESLN0093, and ESLN0094) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to develop listening skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-Low” to “Intermediate-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Services (ETS). Students will increase their listening skills through practice with level-appropriate listening and note-taking activities, authentic listening texts, discussions on related topics, and Internet and multimedia resources. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Beginner ESL courses (ESLN0090, ESLN0091, ESLN0092, ESLN0093, and ESLN0094) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-High” to “Advanced-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0100, ESLN0101, ESLN0102, ESLN0103, and ESLN0104) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-High” to “Advanced-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. Instruction also includes a focus on drafting, editing, and proofreading texts. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0100, ESLN0101, ESLN0102, ESLN0103, and ESLN0104) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-High” to “Advanced-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0100, ESLN0101, ESLN0102, ESLN0103, and ESLN0104) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire the grammar skills necessary to read, write, speak, and understand English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-High” to “Advanced-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0100, ESLN0101, ESLN0102, ESLN0103, and ESLN0104) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire listening skills in English as a Second Language at the “Intermediate-High” to “Advanced-Low” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their listening skills through practice with level-appropriate listening and note-taking activities, authentic listening texts, discussions on related topics, and Internet and multimedia resources. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0100, ESLN0101, ESLN0102, ESLN0103, and ESLN0104) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Low” to “Advanced-Mid” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0105, ESLN0106, ESLN0107, ESLN0108, and ESLN0120) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Low” to “Advanced-Mid” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. Instruction also includes a focus on writing for different genres, and drafting, editing, and proofreading texts. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0105, ESLN0106, ESLN0107, ESLN0108, and ESLN0120) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Low” to “Advanced-Mid” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0105, ESLN0106, ESLN0107, ESLN0108, and ESLN0120) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire the grammar skills necessary to read, write, speak, and understand English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Low” to “Advanced-Mid” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0105, ESLN0106, ESLN0107, ESLN0108, and ESLN0120) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire reading skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Mid” to “Advanced-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will increase their reading skills through maximum exposure to level-appropriate target-language readings of fiction and non-fiction texts, intensive vocabulary study, and reading skills development activities. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Advanced ESL courses (ESLN1009, ESLN1010, ESLN1011, ESLN0113, and ESLN1030) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire writing skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Mid” to “Advanced-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their writing skills through writing and in-depth analyses of topics and level-appropriate texts. Careful attention will be given to the correct use of rhetorical and cohesion devices, grammatical sentence/paragraph structures, and writing strategies. Instruction also includes a focus on writing for different genres, and drafting, editing, and proofreading texts. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Advanced ESL courses (ESLN1009, ESLN1010, ESLN1011, ESLN0113, and ESLN1030) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to acquire speaking skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Mid” to “Advanced-High” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Students will develop their speaking skills through engagement in level-appropriate role-playing scenarios, individual and group presentation activities, whole-class and small group discussions, and other speaking tasks. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: Advanced ESL courses (ESLN1009, ESLN1010, ESLN1011, ESLN0113, and ESLN1030) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

This course is part of a proficiency-based language program designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to develop listening skills in English as a Second Language at the “Advanced-Low” to “Advanced-Mid” levels on the national scale as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Services (ETS). Students will increase their listening skills through practice with level-appropriate listening and note-taking activities, authentic listening texts, discussions on related topics, and internet and multimedia resources. This course does not apply toward graduation credit requirements. Pre-requisites: High-Intermediate ESL courses (ESLN0105, ESLN0106, ESLN0107, ESLN0108, and ESLN0120) or placement through La Roche University’s ESL placement test.

Independent study for non-native speakers of English who have demonstrated a commitment to further study of English writing skills and techniques and/or English reading skills and vocabulary. The student will complete independent study in conjunction with the appropriate ESL faculty.