International Program and ESL

Oakwood builds your leadership skills. ESL has greatly improved my English skills and Oakwood has built my leadership skills. I became a dorm proctor and grew very comfortable standing up and speaking in front of the entire school!

At Oakwood, teachers can be your friend and mentor at the same time. There’s a closeness. Teachers at Oakwood push you, motivate you, and support you.

What I learned from ESL is more than to read, speak and write English, rather to understand the worth of it, to appreciate the beauty of it and to love it as a whole. College has been challenging, yet I enjoy every single day of it out of my love for English. And I thank Oakwood ESL for that.

The ESL program Oakwood provides is very helpful for international students who just come to the United States to study. All the teachers are super patient with our English study and they are trying their best to introduce American culture to us. It helped me to get used to conversational English rather than what I learned in textbooks back home.

The ESL program prepared me with the confidence to interact with both the teachers and the students. Classes are often thought provoking because they allowed me to share experiences without the fear of making mistakes.