Spring 2021 online English classes started at CSI

Spring 2021 online English classes started at CSI

The English Language Institute started the Spring semester with students from all over the world. They will study at the College of Staten Island for one semester with classmates from 10 different countries.

Staten Island, New York

The English Language Institute (ELI) at the College of Staten Island (CSI)/The City University of New York (CUNY) started its online Spring semester term last January 19, 2021. The international office of CSI, the Center for Global Engagement, welcomed students from all over the world with an orientation session. These students will learn English until mid-May and many of them will apply to CSI or apply for a better job.

The ELI director, Gonzalo Villena, held a welcome and orientation session where he explained all the academic features of the program and the benefits they could get while learning English at the largest CUNY campus. “Our students will have the best experience of their lives”, ELI director highlighted.

This Spring, ELI received students from 10 different countries, which makes classes more fun since students will force themselves to speak in English and learn from everybody’s culture. Students are from Argentina, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, and Vietnam. They will have an online intensive English program with 18 hours of class per week, with different courses such as reading, writing, grammar, conversation, and a TOEFL test preparation. At the end of the semester, they will take the TOEFL ITP test, which is valid to apply to any CUNY school degree.

ELI congratulates all these students for attending classes in New York or from their home cities to have the best time at the College of Staten Island.