Professional Education Subject
English as a Second Language
Offering full-time, part-time, and evening programs, the Language Institute at Georgia Tech helps international students, professionals, and visitors improve their English proficiency including pronunciation, writing, and iBT TOEFL preparation. Courses listed below are offered in the evening only. Click here for information about all the ESL programs offered through the Language Institute.
Courses In This Subject
- ESL Online Course: Business Writing for Non-Native English Speakers (ESL 1000P)—Develop writing skills for the major tasks you do in your daily work including reports, memos, emails, professional letters, and research proposals.
- ESL: Academic Writing (ESL 1117P)—Learn to write academic papers with overall clarity, grammatical accuracy, organization, word choice, and documentation skills.
- ESL: American Literature (ESL 1111P)—Practice English reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills by analyzing short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poetry by American authors.
- ESL: Clearer Speech 1 (ESL 1108P)—Work on your ability to speak clearly. Identify aspects of your pronunciation that interfere with overall intelligibility. Practice sounds, stress, rhythm, intonation, and thought groups in isolation and in context. Get individual feedback and learn how to self-monitor your pronunciation.
- ESL: Clearer Speech 2 (ESL 1112P)—
improve your ability to make yourself understood in extended personal and professional encounters.
- ESL: Contemporary Issues: Developing Discussion Skills (ESL 1105P)—Work on developing oral skills through discussion of current events and overall fluency in speaking by focusing on accent reduction, vocabulary, discussion skills, and conversational development.
- ESL: Creative Writing (ESL 1113P)—Learn how to express your ideas creatively in English. Increase your powers of observation, imagination, and language.
- ESL: Developing the Art of Conversation (ESL 1103P)—
Improve your conversation skills and fluency in English by working on vocabulary, discussion skills, conversational development, and accent reduction.
- ESL: English for Medical Professionals (ESL 1114P)—
Learn to communicate more effectively with patients and colleagues. Improve your speaking and listening comprehension skills through learner-centered activities that focus on pronunciation, cultural competence and empathetic communication.
- ESL: English Grammar and Writing 1 (ESL 1106P)—Review English grammar including adjectives, nouns, and adverb clauses, parallelism, verb tenses and voices, articles, pronoun references, and gerunds and infinitives. Get extensive practice with these structures in meaningful communication. By the end of the course, you will be able to communicate with greater accuracy and sophistication in writing.
- ESL: English Grammar and Writing 2 (ESL 1115P)—
Learn to communicate with greater accuracy and sophistication in writing.
- ESL: GRE/GMAT Verbal and Writing Preparation (ESL 1118P)—
Learn test-taking strategies to improve your GRE or GMAT verbal and writing scores.
- ESL: Oral Presentations (ESL 1110P)—
Learn the skills required to prepare and present a public speech or presentation. Focus on various presentation techniques and topics.
- ESL: Preparation for iBT TOEFL Exam (ESL 1101P)—
Learn test-taking strategies to improve your iBT TOEFL Exam score. Practice integrating speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills while practicing TOEFL questions. The instructor will provide individualized feedback to participants.
- ESL: Preparation for the TOEIC Exam (ESL 1116P)—Learn test-taking strategies to improve your TOEIC Listening and Reading and TOEIC Speaking and Writing exam scores.
- ESL: Professional Writing (ESL 1104P)—
Focus on skills needed for business writing. Learn how to write business letters, memoranda, and reports, as well as short technical reports.
