Intensive ESL

Overview

Learn skills and strategies that will help you improve your IELTS and TOEFL scores. At all levels of the Intensive ESL program at the University of California Irvine (UCI), develop skills that are not only vital for success on the iBT TOEFL and IELTS, but also essential in your real-life use of English for your future.

Benefits

• Experience a program trusted for more than 40 years to support you in achieving your academic, career, and personal goals
• Learn with dedicated, highly-trained teachers with an average of over 10 years of teaching experience who are committed to maintaining the highest standards of student achievement

• Attend small classes – usually about 16 students

• Benefit from engaging, interactive classes with a rigorous curriculum that emphasizes authentic language use in academic, business, and social contexts. Information about course levels and proficiency scales can be viewed here.

• Advance your skills in upper-level elective classes in topics such as idioms, advanced pronunciation, advanced conversation, business English, advanced vocabulary, advanced grammar, and iBT and IELTS preparation

• Practice your English and learn about campus life with a UCI undergraduate friend through conversation lunch hour held twice a week

• Learn using state-of-the-art technology and methodologies

• Prepare to score higher on the TOEFL and IELTS tests

Accreditation

The program is CEA-accredited.