Community ESL Program Structure
The Community English Program (CEP) at Lane Community College offers 5 levels of English as a Second language study that ranges from true beginning through high intermediate proficiency level. These classes combine the language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. All new students will take a placement test and get placed in an appropriate class level.
Classes are held during the evening on Mondays and Wednesdays both online or in-person. Each class session is 2.5 hours, for a total of 5 hours of study each week.
Community ESL Program Course Descriptions
The content of each course is divided into four terms (eg. 200, 201, 202, 203), spanning the academic year. Students may attain proficiency in the level at any point during the four-term sequence and advance to the next level.
This class focuses on developing basic English language skills. At the end of the class, students should be able to use English to have brief, routine conversations with some effort, read very simple and familiar or patterned sentences on familiar subjects and write common words and phrases.
This class focuses on continuing to develop basic English language skills. At the end of the class, students should be able to use English to have brief, routine conversations, read simplified texts, and write simple sentences related to daily needs.
This class focuses on developing high beginning English language skills. At the end of the class, students should be able to use English to have brief conversations about familiar topics, read short texts with clear organization, tables, graphs, maps and diagrams, and write short paragraphs about familiar and high interest topics.
This class focuses on developing low intermediate English language skills and on the rights and responsibilities of community membership. Students who complete this level should be able to have fluent conversations about familiar topics, and provide a short narrative. Students will also be able to understand main ideas, details, and some implied meaning in extended conversations, read a range of increasingly elaborated texts, and write texts to address work and family purposes.
This class focuses on continued development of intermediate English language skills and on the rights and responsibilities of community membership. At the end of this level students will be able to have moderate-length conversations with increasing ease and fluency, listen to detailed presentations about simple academic topics, read introductory academic texts, popular literary texts and everyday work and community documents, and write a range of simple and functional and narrative texts for work, community, family, academic, and creative purposes.