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The ESL population at Baruch College is a large and varied
one. In the Fall 1995 semester over 1600 students were enrolled
in ESL English Department courses. These students speak
over 27 different languages, and come from as many as 45
different countries. Study after study has shown that ESL
students will continue to be a significant portion of Baruch's
student population (some estimates are over half by the
year 2000), and that, furthermore, they persist and can
do well in other college courses while here at Baruch.
The
ESL program has developed an integrated skills approach
that combines Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening components
for each of the four levels addressed. Furthermore, the
program provides language immersion via acceleration. New (and some continuing) students now register for one 9-hour course which stresses intensive instruction in academic reading and writing.
Our
instructional staff is highly skilled and well trained,some
with doctorates or Master's degrees in TESL or Linguistics. We have two well equipped ESL Writing labs. The labs have extensive word processing facilities and a wide variety of grammar based and content linked grammar software available for in-class and free-hour lab use.
For further information, matriculated students should contact Prof. Frank Cioffi, Writing Director at at +1.646.312.3991, or at Frank_Cioffi@baruch.cuny.edu.
Others interested in ESL classes should contact the Continuing and Professional Studies Department at 1.646.312.5000 or at http://www.baruched.com/.
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