The ELS program is a regular academic program and is open only to matriculated MIT students.
Our grade- and credit-bearing classes meet according to the MIT academic calendar and involve homework and exams. Our curriculum is designed for non-native English speakers to foster effective communication in a variety of academic and professional contexts. Any bilingual/ESL undergraduate or graduate student earning a degree at MIT can register for an ELS subject.
Information on the English Evaluation Test for accepted, incoming international graduate students.
Students from outside the MIT community are NOT accepted in the ELS program.
See the links below for resources at MIT for language study and for ESL programs in the metro-Boston area:
Fall 2019 Course Offering
21G.219/220 Foundations of Academic and Professional Writing
21G.222 Expository Writing for Bilingual Students
21G.223/224 Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
21G.225/226 Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering
21G.232* Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening Skills
21G.237 MIT Out Loud: Public Speaking for Bilingual Students (syllabus) NEW!
*This sections meets from 4-5:30pm, and, therefore, are only open to graduate students.
Looking ahead:
IAP 2020
21G.217/218 Workshop in Strategies for Effective Teaching
Spring 2020
21G.219/220 Foundations of Academic and Professional Writing
21G.221 Communicating in American Culture
21G.222 Expository Writing for Bilingual Students
21G.223/224 Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation
21G.225/226 Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering
21G.227/228 Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture
21G.232/233 Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening Skills
21G.222 (undergraduate only) Enrollment limited to 18 for pedagogical reasons. Preference is given to students required to take the class according to the results of the FEE. If space allows, other undergraduate bilingual undergraduates may register, with preference given to ELS concentrators and other pre-registered students. (Undergraduates who have successfully completed 21G.222 or another CI-HW subject may not take 21G.220.)
All other ELS subjects: Preference will be given to undergraduates required to take the class and graduate students recommended for the class based on the results of the current school year’s English Evaluation Test (EET). Priority will then go, in descending order, to ELS concentrators, students recommended in previous years, other pre-registered graduate students, and other matriculated graduate students.”
