Language Program - English as a Second Language ESL - Social Sciences, Humanities & Languages - Level 5A Seattle Central College

English as a Second Language (ESL) classes are offered to help non-native speakers to communicate in English through the development of skills in listening and observing, speaking, reading, and writing. At the beginning level, emphasis is on improving listening comprehension, vocabulary development, and English structure. The courses advance to notetaking, composition, oral presentation, and class discussion at the more advanced levels. They have levels 1, 2, 3, 4A, 4B, 5A, 81A, and 81B.

Seattle Central College is a public college in Seattle, Washington. With North Seattle College and South Seattle College, it is one of the three colleges that comprise the Seattle Colleges District. The college has a substantial international student population served by the International Education Programs division as well as many immigrant and refugee students taking ESL courses through the Basic and Transitional Studies division.

For more than 50 years, Seattle Central has been educating the citizens of Seattle and the surrounding region with the best programs of their kind anywhere, including college transfer, career training, continuing education and basic studies.

Whatever the students want to do, Seattle Central have a program to help them to do it. Three bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and professional certificates in 26 programs of study. Almost half of the students are working towards Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degrees to prepare them for transfer to four–year colleges or universities. To build successful careers, about a third of the students pursue career training programs to learn marketable skills in fields such as healthcare, information technology, business, culinary arts, maritime, social and human services and more. Seattle Central also serve students with courses in basic studies, continuing education and other programs.