Coordinator: Steve Wyckoff (Carman Hall, 398)
The program in English as a Second Language (E.S.L.) offers courses to nonnative speakers who want to follow a regular course of study leading to the bachelor's degree. E.S.L. courses provide practice in all language skills areas: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students may enter the E.S.L. sequence at the intermediate or advanced levels of English proficiency. Upon completion of the E.S.L. sequence, students progress to the two-course sequence in English Composition (ENG 110 and ENG 120). Students who successfully complete two E.S.L. courses may use them to satisfy the College Requirement in Foreign Language.
No beginning-level E.S.L. courses are offered by the College E.S.L. Program at Lehman. The first course in the following sequence is taught at the high-intermediate level.
ESL 103: English as a Second Language, Intermediate. 6 hours, 2 credits. Introduction to college-level academic English. Grammar topics include a review of the English tense and modal system, clause patterns, hypothetical and conditional statements, and common trouble spots. Expository and academic discourse patterns covered include summary and analysis, comparison, cause and effect, the argument, short answer response, and the research paper.
ESL 104: English as a Second Language, Advanced. 6 hours, 2 credits. Focuses on syntactic and discourse structures at an advanced level. Grammar topics include consistency in tense usage, time frame shifts in discourse, difficult lexical and clause patterns, and advanced grammar troublespots, particularly those used for focus, emphasis, or stylistic purposes in academic texts. Other topics include editing and revising written work, reading analytically and critically, and citing an author's ideas informally or formally.