Adult ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages
Life Skills ESOL Program
CASA offers life skills ESOL classes from introductory to advanced level. All classes utilize a combination
of communicative, task-based learning and Popular Education techniques.
The goal of CASA’s Life Skills ESOL Program is to improve participants’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English so that they may become more financially independent, increase their employability, better integrate into U.S. society and achieve their personal goals.
Class materials are geared towards students’ life experiences
and provide adult learners with the skills to apply English accurately and appropriately in a variety of
places including but not limited to home, community, and workplace settings.
There will be 4 eight-week sessions running from later August to early June. Students can select an
evening, morning or Saturday class schedule.
Classes cost $100 for CASA members.
Click here to learn about becoming a CASA member.
Workforce ESOL Program
CASA provides beginner and intermediate level ESOL classes in the early morning hours at our Welcome
Centers in Montgomery and Prince George’s County. These classes empower day laborers to obtain
higher-paying and/or more stable employment, communicate effectively with co-workers and
employers, and understand workplace safety and workers’ rights. Additional life skills such as
transportation, health, nutrition and civic engagement are also addressed. As with the Life Skills ESOL
Program, classes utilize a combination of communicative, task-based learning and Popular Education
techniques.
The program utilizes a “drop-in” structure which means that daily lessons are self-contained
and do not require that learners participate in consecutive classes in order to develop a particular
language skill.
