For international graduate students, the English for Multilingual Students Program offers courses in both academic/professional writing and academic oral English.
For placement into EMS graduate coursework, students must participate in the Graduate Entry Level Placement in English (Grad ELPE) process. For prospective International Teaching Assistants, placement into LING 4 takes place via the EMS ITA Evaluation and Certification process.
Academic Oral English Course
Our individual/small-group tutorial course focuses on academic and professional oral English.
- LING 4 (Individual and Small Group Instruction)
- LING 4 offers advanced-level instruction in writing or speaking in English, depending on students’ needs and their placement into this course. In LING 4, students may work on further developing classroom presentation skills to be teaching assistants, improving pronunciation for graduate-level of professional presentations, improving writing proficiency for publication and graduate-level success, and more.
Graduate Writing Courses
Two courses are offered in graduate writing, LING 2G and LING 3G. In both courses, students learn and practice rhetorical strategies for writing in their fields and for professional purposes, such as developing resumes and application materials for internships or jobs. Both courses encourage students to examine language use in their specific fields or disciplines.
- LING 2G (Intermediate Graduate Writing for International Students)
- LING 2G offers greater focus on sentence-level linguistic decision making skills needed for effective written communication at the graduate level.
- LING 3G (Advanced Graduate Writing for International Students)
- In LING 3G, instruction focuses more on linguistic and rhetorical decision making strategies needed for disciplinary communication, including research and publication.