Intensive English Course
The Intensive English course provides rigorous and relevant classroom instruction in English language skills and American culture and history.
American Culture and Communications for Speakers of English as a Second Language
This highly interactive class is aimed at advanced speakers of English as a Second Language and teaches strategies for navigating everyday work and life situations. This class is designed for professionals whose jobs involve extensive spoken interpersonal communication, such as medical practitioners and teaching assistants/instructors. Linguistically and culturally challenging situations such as giving advice, relating disagreeable facts, making presentations, negotiating, networking, and interviewing for a job will be covered.English Pronunciation and Accent Reduction
This class teaches the basics of how sounds are made with the mouth, and the "musical patterns" (prosody) of English. Learners will have abundant, interactive opportunities to apply this knowledge to their own speech and become better understood by their listeners.
Advanced Conversational English Grammar
This class is designed for speakers of English as a Second Language who are already familiar with English grammar rules, but still struggle to use them when speaking. This class will systematically review grammar rules and then provide students with conversational activities and intensive instructor feedback to help correct fossilized mistakes.
Students in the program also select an academic area of interest to explore through enrollment in a Rochester Scholars course.
