17 Gough Square, Instruction

International Students and Faculty

Afternoon Tea (ESL)

Help for Speakers of English as a Second Language

(Conversational English)

J. B. Cantrell, MA, PhD

Our most popular class, meeting Monday through Thursday from 5:00 to 5:30, the Afternoon Tea get-together is an opportunity to spend a few minutes in a warm environment taking tea and light refreshment and speaking English with friends and colleagues from school or work . No homework required.

International Students and Faculty

Spoken English (ESL)

Help for Speakers of English as a Second Language

(Content-Based Pronunciation Classes)

J. B. Cantrell, MA, PhD

Through the study of the sounds (phonemes) and words (morphemes) available to us in famous English and American poems and foreign poems in translation we are able with considerable success to improve vastly our knowledge of how the language works, of the music of English, of how the words are pronounced in various parts of the country, and of how the language reflects the underlying culture. Some homework required.

International Students and Faculty

English Composition (ESL)

Help for Writers of English as a Second Language

(On-line Instruction in Writing)

J. B. Cantrell, MA, PhD

In English Composition (ESL) we provide some basic guidelines and ask that the writer submit via email a five- to seven-paragraph paper, double-spaced, which we then read very carefully, mark, and return to the writer for revision. The writer revises and resubmits the paper, and we continue then to work on problems encountered in this process of writing and revising until we have resolved as many problems as the writer wishes to address. Considerable homework required.