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The quality of the curriculum was, of course, top notch – but it was the professionalism and innovative edge of the teaching faculty at the Monterey Institute that left its mark on me. From the start, I was treated as a colleague and sparring partner.
Joyce Kling Soren
MATESOL 1988
Detroit, Michigan
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- To improve each learner’s ability to use English effectively in its cultural context by developing appropriate communication strategies, enhancing fluency and accuracy, and increasing cultural awareness.
- To make available to each learner opportunities to engage in effective and meaningful communication in English within the classroom, on campus, and in the community and wider world.
- To assess each learner’s language learning needs and strengths, and to work with each to facilitate progress toward personal and professional goals.
- To foster in each learner an awareness of individual language learning strengths and strategies, and to encourage the development of individual autonomy in the learning process.
- To increase each learner’s understanding of and sensitivity to other cultures, and to introduce pertinent social and cultural patterns of American life.
- To introduce learners to the formal and informal expectations of American higher education, and to foster progress towards academic goals through an emphasis on academic preparation.
- To identify and honor collaborative and innovative leadership in learners, faculty and staff alike.
- To create and continuously maintain an innovative and professionally responsible model program of second language instruction in which faculty and teachers-in-training collaborate to contribute to personal, professional, and program development, and are appropriately recognized for those contributions.
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