A particular score for one school might indicate a different level of ESL than for another. If you plan to complete your education in your native country, yet want to experience life in an American boarding school, then an ESL Summer program is for you. Even if you have already been accepted into a US boarding school for the full year, you should consider a summer program to give you an idea of what to expect. Also available at some schools, including Solebury School, is a spring ESL program, mainly to accommodate those international students whose academic year in their native country ends in March, yet they will not begin their fall boarding school program until the following September. From April through August, at the International Academy of Minnesota , these students can receive the intensive ESL and cultural training that allows them to jump right in to academic studies at a private U.S. high school.
Participants have a choice of homestay or dormitory accommodations.
Additionally you will be able to experience boarding school life and an introduction to the culture. Because most of the classes are non-credit courses, pressure from grades will be alleviated and more focus placed upon learning English. It will also help to ease culture shock and homesickness when the full year program begins. Even after one or two years in an ESL program, many students still strive to improve their language proficiency and enroll in ESL summer programs, which may offer mainstream content courses for credit, or just concentrate on improving English skills.