Chair: Udambor Bumandalai
Phone: (435) 283-7443
Email: udambor.bumandalai@snow.edu
Disciplines within Department:
Contact: Udambor Bumandalai
Phone: (435) 283-7443
Email: udambor.bumandalai@snow.edu
Program's Webpage: https://snow.edu/academics/humanities/language
The ESL Program provides an intensive English program designed for non-native English speakers whose English language skills are not yet developed enough to read, write, take notes and examinations, or do other college-level work in English. Most ESL students complete the program in one or two semesters.
Students in the ESL Program attend classes five to six hours a day for five days a week. ESL courses instruct students in basic to advanced levels of academic English skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The ESL Program also offers subjects which will help students to live and study at an American college.
Unless students have submitted a TOEFL score of 500, 173 CBT, 63 iBT (with a minimum of 15 in each section) or higher before arrival on campus, they are required to take the ESL Placement Exam at an additional cost of $25.00. This is a one-time placement exam. Students may not take it multiple times. The score on this exam will determine where students will begin their studies.
After taking the Placement Exam, students are placed in one of four different levels. Students who earn a score of 88 or better on the placement exam will be admitted into regular academic courses and will need to take only ESL 1051 as a prerequisite for ENGL 1010. Students may challenge ESL 1051 by taking a written essay exam that is graded by three ESL faculty members. Students must pass this with an 85% or better by at least two of the three raters.
Outcomes:
Contact: Travis Schiffman
Phone: (435) 283-7355
Email: travis.schiffman@snow.edu
Program's Webpage: www.snow.edu/foreignlanguages
The foreign languages taught at Snow College are Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The study of a foreign language includes the language plus its cultures, civilization, literature, and instruction in effective communication via written and oral modes.
Foreign language majors study the language as a vehicle of personal, academic, and professional expression in a variety of contexts appropriate to the cultures where the language is spoken. They study the people who speak the language, and they investigate attitudes, behaviors, and histories through a variety of media and through interaction with native speakers, or advanced non-native speakers, and texts. Majors also read and write extensively in the foreign language.
Students often combine a foreign language major with a secondary major, thus increasing their career potential.
Outcomes:
Students who complete the recommended foreign language curriculum at Snow College achieve the following outcomes:
Interpretive Communication:
Students will be able to understand some ideas in simple texts that contain familiar
vocabulary. (Novice high reading)
Presentational Communication:
Interpersonal Communication:
Cultural Competence:
Contact: Diane Ogden
Phone: (435) 283-7436
Email: diane.ogden@snow.edu
Program's Webpage: www.snow.edu/tesl
The TESL Program offers training for students who want to teach English to non-native speakers of English. Students can earn an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) degree in TESL or complete the TESL curriculum while pursuing an Associate of Arts (recommended) or Associate of Science degree.
Students who complete the Certificate of Proficiency will receive a certificate designation on their transcript and will be able to find jobs outside the United States teaching English.
Students will continue in a program to pursue a TESOL minor, a TESOL bachelor’s degree or a master’s in a related field (i.e. TESOL, Second Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics).
Students will be able to teach English abroad it their native language or if they are competent in English (TOEFL iBT of 63 or successful completion of the ESL program at Snow College) to non-native speakers.
Outcomes:
Programs within Department
Associate of Applied Science in Teaching English as Second Language
Certificate of Proficiency - Teaching English as a Second Language