English as a Second Language Noncredit (ESLN) CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY
Academic ESL for Educational and Professional Advancement

• Intermediate English for College and Career Success

• Advanced English for Academic and Professional Advancement

The LMC English as a Second Language Department offers mirrored for-credit (Credit) and not-for-credit (Non-Credit) programs and courses to best serve the needs,situations, and statuses of our diverse multilingual immigrant, refugee, and international student populations. The Credit ESL (ESL) courses lead to four General ESL and two Academic ESL College Skills Certificates. The Non-Credit ESL (ESLN) courses lead to four General ESL and two Academic ESL Certificates of Competency.

The Academic ESL for Educational and Professional Advancement Program serves and supports non-native English-speaking students who are seeking and ready to acquire intermediate and advanced academic language proficiencies and competencies. Our Academic ESL Program supports these students’ college and career advancement by intentionally infusing two key components into our second language acquisition oriented program student learning outcomes (PSLOs): 1) the LMC Institutional/General Education student learning outcomes, which exist and function to prepare students to succeed in general and career education courses as well as students’ chosen major coursework, and 2) the thinking dispositions (i.e., the Habits of Mind) that research has shown most significantly support student success, and which are equivalent to the very “soft skills” that industry has called upon higher education to help students attain. Additionally, our instruction takes an appreciative, strengths-based approach to teaching our multilingual immigrant, refugee, and international student populations by valuing the rich diversity they bring to our college classrooms, respecting their language learning goals as additive and commendable, and empowering them toward academic and career engagement and success.

Mga Resulta ng Pagkatuto ng Programa

1. Embrace having more to learn through reading inquiringly and critically and thinking flexibly about diverse, multi-genre college-preparatory and college texts that connect you to multicultural, social, ethical, and global ideas and issues.

2. Strive to gain increasing ability to understand and accurately and creatively use vocabulary learned from context and on the new general service list (NGSL) and the new academic word list (NAWL) in known and new situations.

3. Communicate clearly, effectively, and creatively in writing at the word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, and essay levels, reviewing and reflecting on your writing and learning, and collaborating with others to support your continual development.

4. Risk responsibly and persist to accurately understand and apply a wide variety of grammatical structures – from basic to advanced - to negotiate meaning, ask questions, share and discuss ideas and opinions, solve problems, create plans, make decisions, present arguments, and apply past knowledge to achieve solid understanding and intended meaning.

5. Speak and listen with empathy and increasing confidence, fluency, and self-regulation, exploring diverse and alternative perspectives, within a range of formal and informal social, academic, and career communication settings.

6. Pay attention to recognize and self-improve pronunciation difficulties, speech challenges, writing complexities, listening obstacles, and reading issues that may impede successful engagement and interaction, finding humor and seeking out and responding with wonderment and awe to support your doing so.