English Language Training Institute Brochure

PREPARE FOR SUCCESS ENGLISH L ANGUAGE TRAINING INSTITUTE

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The UNC Charlotte Language Training Institute is one of the largest intensive English programs in the Carolinas. Language learners seeking skills to succeed at UNC Charlotte start their journey here.

The English Language Training Institute, a unit of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Office of International Programs, prepares English language learners to be successful members of the U.S. academic community while promoting intercultural understanding and a global perspective.

ELTI students can apply for conditional admission to UNC Charlotte.

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Succeed With The English Language Training Institute provides students and visiting scholars with all of the tools needed to succeed, including language and cultural awareness.

INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM

STUDENT SUPPORT

ELTI’s intensive English program prepares international

- Highly trained instructors holding TESL Master Degrees

undergraduate and graduate students for academic study at

- Informed, welcoming, and caring administrators

UNC Charlotte or other U.S. institutions of higher learning.

- University and community engagement opportunities and events

CURRICULUM AND SCHEDULE

- Conversation partners

- Academic English preparation

- Full use of all University facilities

- U.S. and higher education cultural understanding

CONDITIONAL ADMISSION TO UNC CHARLOTTE

- Twenty hours of classroom instruction per week

Students who are academically admissible to undergraduate

- Six levels, integrated skills curriculum

programs, but who do not yet have required English proficiency

- Three semester start dates: fall, spring, summer

test scores, may apply for English conditional admission status.

- Bridge program combining English and University courses

h English INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTOR LANGUAGE SUPPORT PROGRAM International teaching assistants (ITAs), visiting scholars, and international graduate students are supported by the ELTI. INTERNATIONAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS ITAs are assessed for language and instructional readiness skills before beginning their teaching assignments and attend a support course as appropriate.

VISITING SCHOLARS UNC Charlotte visiting scholars are invited to attend a language support course to help develop spoken English skills as well as to share their experiences with fellow scholars.

GRADUATE STUDENTS Graduate students at UNC Charlotte can take advantage of a six-week spoken English support course focused on improving their spoken comprehensibility and pronunciation.

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Of Success The English Language Training Institute is the

ELTI enrolls approximately 150 students from more

longest established university-based intensive

than 20 countries every semester. The Institute

English program in the Carolinas. Situated in

offers six levels of English language instruction, each

the rapidly developing city of Charlotte, North

engaging students in authentic language instruction

Carolina, the institute serves as a linguistic and

and practice. Students benefit from small class sizes

cultural resource for the community.

of 13-15, and from the possibility of undergraduate conditional admission to UNC Charlotte.

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