English Language Institute
2002Newsletter
From the director's desk . .
  ELI joins CHEP  
  Scholarships for Peace  
  Scholarship designated for Central American students  
  Conditional Admissions Program provides linguistic and legal bridge  
  Congratulations to CAP graduates  
  Federal grant partnership with U.S. and Ecuador law schools continues  
  ELI trains Ukrainian legal and business professionals  
  American Law and Legal Institute  
  Special programs  
  PreMBA program  
  New class: Broadway Musicals  
  Sewin' at Shoin  
  Corporate tutoring  
  Evening program steams ahead  
  Profiles  
  Classroom notes  
  A typical day in the tutoring center  
  ELI founder to retire  
  Professional activities  
  Graduation 2002: as good as it gets  
  Two countries, maybe more, under one roof  
  New faces in the Christina School District ESL program  
  Evaluation of the Christina School District bilingual program  
  Personnel notes  
  In memoriam  
  Greetings to our alumni  
  Alumni news  

Corporate tutoring

The Tutoring Center serves a variety of business people who do not take regular ELI classes. Some of these corporate clients are foreign-born resident employees of local companies, such as AstraZeneca, DuPont or MBNA, who wish to improve their English after or before their work day.

A second group has been sent directly to Delaware by their employers especially to brush up their English at ELI, sometimes before longer assignments in this country. This typical business client comes daily for training each morning for two or three weeks and is often required to visit the company's local offices or labs in the afternoon.

Corporate Tutoring
Robert Boeck of the Gore Company in Germany works with Linda Bigler in the Corporate Tutoring program.

One of these, Robert Boeck, who works on computer networking at Gore in Munich, Germany, arrived in early October on his second visit to the United States. A 17-year employee, he found the intensive morning training helpful in improving his listening comprehension, as he and his tutors worked with videotapes of business situations. Reviewing his grammar also helped when he visited one of the Gore sites in nearby Maryland every afternoon for two weeks and met colleagues he had only e-mailed before. Coming in the fall, he was pleased at the chance to walk across the street from his hotel and watch a UD football game. It had been one of his dreams to see American football, but he was unprepared for the colorful halftime show. The cultural as well as the educational experience is the reason corporate clients come to ELI.