English as a Second Language Program
Department of Linguistics
Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
South Hall 3507
Telephone: (805) 893-7258
E-mail: mlee@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Website: www.esl.ucsb.edu (will open in a new browser window)
Director: Jan Frodesen
Contents:
Jan M. Frodesen, Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Lecturer with Security of Employment
Roberta L. Gilman, M.A., UC Santa Barbara, Lecturer
Jeff M. Hanson, M.A., UC Santa Barbara, Lecturer
Dorothy M. Chun, Ph.D. (Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies)
Jan M. Frodesen, Ph.D., (English as a Second Language)
Susan McLeod, Ph.D., (Writing Program)
Stephen I. Long, Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Russell Rumberger, Ph.D. (Graduate School of Education)
Arthur Schwartz, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
The English as a Second Language (ESL) Program offers courses for undergraduate and graduate students for whom English is not the first language. The primary goal of the ESL program is to prepare students for participation in an American academic community. All incoming graduate students whose first language is not English are required to take the written and oral English Language Placement Examination (ELPE). Placement in ESL courses is based on students’ performance on these examinations. In addition, all prospective teaching assistants are required to take the TA Language Evaluation in order to be certified for sole classroom teaching responsibility.
New undergraduates whose first language is not English may be required to enroll in ESL courses as determined by their performance on the written Analytical Writing Placement Exam. Students placed in these ESL courses must successfully complete them before they can enroll in the required freshman writing sequence.
See the Department of Linguistics entry on this website for a listing of courses. Contact the ESL program or visit our website: www.esl.ucsb.edu for course descriptions, schedule of classes, examination dates, and further information.
