Courses & Programs
The Intensive English Institute at Orono, Maine offers a year-round Focal Skills design core intensive program as well as semester and summer courses in ESL education and shorter-term programs, workshops and tutorials.
Our core intensive program develops English language skills for success in school, business, and social communication. Our English for Special Purposes (ESP) short-courses, workshops and tutorials address specific needs in a shorter-term format.
In addition, we train teachers of ESL/EFL, and we custom design other specialized language training programs to meet the needs of your institution or business.
Should you request it, we can come to you to provide consultancy services that assess and address your English language learning, program design or teacher training needs.
Core Intensive English Program
IEI's core program offers intensive English language instruction in four skill-focused modules designed to rapidly develop the student's fluency and comprehensibility using English. The classes also provide cultural awareness training to prepare English language learners to function
comfortably in the U.S.A. Our teachers use innovative methods and communicative activities consistent with the Natural Approach and based on a Focal Skills Program design.
Our full-time core intensive program students attend skills-focused and elective classes 20 hours per week from
Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, our students select from additional
personal and group language learning experiences--including tutorials, conversation partners, chaperoned trips, and individual or small-group self-study.
The core intensive program uses Focal Skills assessments to place students into one
of the four sequenced modules: the Listening Module, Reading Module, Writing
Module, or Immersion Module. Every four weeks students are tested again to see
if they are ready to change their skill focus.
To learn more about our core intensive program or about our other special purpose short-courses and workshops, please click on an item
listed below:
Core Intensive English Language Program
TOEFL Workshops
Medical English Programs
TESOL Certificate Program
