Welcome

The Summer Intensive English Language Program at LaGuardia Community College consists of six classes of approximately twenty-one students each. Each group works with a Reading & Writing Teacher, a Project Teacher, a Teaching Assistant, and a Student Leader. Students attend a daily computer class in which they learn how to use typing programs, research the internet, have online discussions, type up essays, save documents to disks, use e-mail, and any other basic computer skills that they can use through their lifetime. 
    

Students read the following 3 books. "...If You Lived at the Time of The American Revolution" by Kay Moore.  "War comes to Willy Freeman" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, and "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James and Chris Collier. They keep a daily journal about what they are learning or reading about. They also prepare PowerPoint presentations on The Revolution in the United States by working in groups.

In SIELP 2006, the students came from 27 different countries. There are students from Afghanistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burma, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Jakarta, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Taiwan, USA and Venezuela.

Students work hard to meet the challenges of the summer. The daily attendance rate is between 93% and 99%. The students take from 2-3 field trips each summer. In 2006, students will visit The Fraunces Tavern Museum and The Old Bethpage Restoration.
  
Students are encouraged to keep in contact with the friends they have made at SIELP. After the summer program, there are Saturday classes where students can continue improving their English Language skills.