St. Louis Community College offers the region's largest postsecondary ESL program. Begun just 6 years ago, the ESL program now enrolls more than 300 students. Significant features of program are gradual, early mainstreaming, use of portfolios for assessment, and the ongoing development of linked ESL-mainstream content classes. The International Institute is the largest refugee resettlement agency in the state of Missouri. Among a wide range of settlement and community services, the institute provides specialized instruction in ESOL to adult immigrants.
Classes are student centered and focus on content that is relevant to students needs.
After an overview of the ESL program curriculum, visitors will be taken to the Language and Instructional Media Center to watch how a pronunciation and accent reduction class uses the computer language facility. After a question and answer session, they will visit an English for Business Communication class. All rights reserved. This page was last updated on Tuesday, March 13, 2001.