CT State Community College Gateway offers a variety of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes to meet students’ academic, professional, and personal goals. Classes are scheduled mornings, afternoons, and evenings to meet students’ diverse needs. ESL classes can be used for foreign language credit.
Mission
Welcome to the ESOL Division at CT State Gateway!
Our mission is to enable non-native speakers to become full participants in their communities, and to achieve their educational, professional, and personal goals through our integrated reading/writing and elective English language courses. Our passionate and highly qualified professional faculty work to empower our students by providing them with a solid foundation in critical thinking as well as oral and written communication skills. Our multi-level credit and non-credit programs and personalized advising help students develop skills that improve their work and personal lives and open paths to career certificates, associate and advanced college degrees that allow them to achieve their long term goals and financial stability.
Our Programs
We offer a variety of ESOL courses to meet the academic, professional, and personal goals of our students, who come from over eighty countries. Courses are scheduled to meet students’ diverse needs, including mornings and evenings. The credit program focuses on six credit integrated skills courses that include writing, reading, and speaking skills so that students can succeed in college-level courses. There are also recommended elective courses such as communication, pronunciation, and grammar.
Humanities Credit for ESL
High-intermediate and advanced ESOL courses (Integrated Skills IV and V) may count as foreign language/humanities elective credits toward graduation with the following stipulations: Students may apply up to 10 ESOL credits toward the degree in General Studies; all other degrees and programs will accept no more than 6 ESOL credits. This is only true for courses taken as credit.
College Credit Program of Study
Students must demonstrate mastery of writing and reading skills before progressing up to the next level. After successful completion of the ESOL sequence, students progress to Composition (ENG 1010) or Composition Eng 1010 with 0902 ESL support.
Required courses Recommended Electives depending on placement to be taken any time to further strengthen skills
ENG 1010 with (0912 support)
6cr
Grammar l, ll, lll
3 cr
each
ESL Integrated Skills V (1502)
6 cr
ESL Integrated Skills lV (1402)
6 cr
Communication l, ll, lll
3 cr
each
ESL Integrated Skills lll. (1302)
6 cr
ESL Integrated Skills ll. (1202)
6 cr
Pronunciation l, ll, lll
3 cr
each
ESL Integrated Skills l (0902)
6cr
Course descriptions can be found in the Course Search link