Duquesne University ESL Program

02/09/2021

We are taking a little social media break. Be sure to follow Duquesne - International Student Services for all the latest news and information about campus events. See you back here soon!

11/17/2020

Helping international students achieve academic success is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to serve diverse learners here at Duquesne University! Happy . 🌎

11/06/2020

Janine Carlock joined the full-time staff of ESL Programs at Duquesne University in the summer of 2015. She has a Bachelor's degree in Chinese and a Master's degree in Linguistics, both earned at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a certificate to teach ESL while pursuing her Linguistics degree. She has been an ESL instructor for over 25 years and has taught students of all ages and in a variety of contexts, with the majority being at the university level in a classroom setting. Her special areas of interest are academic writing and speaking. In addition to teaching ESL courses, she has taught entry-level composition courses at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in addition to working one-on-one as a consultant and as a member of the Freshman Engineering Writing Program staff for 15 years at the University of Pittsburgh Writing Center. She is the co-author of two academic writing textbooks for international students and single author of a 2020 textbook on information literacy.

11/02/2020

Hi everyone, my name is Jingwen Li. I studied ESL at Duquesne University and now I am in music performance. This is my second year at Mary Pappert School of Music, and I will graduate this fall semester. In my future career goal, I am planning to do art education. It was hard to face a totally different culture, as an international student I need to deal with my language, life, schoolwork, and so on. But luckily for me, I have met so many teachers who taught me a lot and how to fix those things. Once when I took an online class, my professor's computer was dead, and he said he needs to put some juice on his computer. I felt so puzzled about that. After finished the class, I searched online for the sentence, finally, I got the meaning, the juice like power. I just found slang was so funny!!

10/30/2020

Flashback Friday! With Halloween coming up, we're looking back on our old Halloween parties with Orbis students. We are always so excited to do events with them! What are you planning on being for Halloween? Comment below to let us know!

10/19/2020

Meet Ms. Julia Salehzadeh! Julia Salehzadeh joined the Duquesne ESL Program as Associate Director in 2012. She received her B.A. in German Literature and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to Duquesne, she was a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes and Coordinator of the EAP Summer Program at the University of Michigan. Julia's primary interests focus on lecture comprehension and vocabulary development for advanced English language learners. She presents regularly at national and local TESOL conferences and has published work in English for Specific Purposes, and The TESOL Classroom Practice Series. In 2020, Julia authored Academic Listening Strategies: A Guide to University Lectures, 2nd Ed., published by the University of Michigan Press. This set of classroom materials for advanced ESL students features an ebook along with 6 full-length video lectures. A big thank you to Ms. Salehzadeh for all she does!

09/22/2020

Starting today, you can pick up materials for the Kindness Rocks Project in front of the Center for Global Engagement! There will be a box under the doorbell, so make sure to stop by before joining us on Zoom Friday, September 25th to craft and create. Supplies will be first come, first serve! We'll be painting rocks with inspirational messages on them to spread kindness around campus and to your friends! Message us for Zoom info.

09/15/2020

Only one more day until our first Real Talk Zoom session! Make sure to join us tomorrow Wednesday, September 16th at 3:30pm to get to know one another (and who knows, there might be a Starbucks gift card involved!) Message us for Zoom info.

09/03/2020

Our ESL Program is designed to help you achieve academic success. Check out this update from former ESL student Mohammed Alnakhli! In just 5 short years, he learned English and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Cardiopulmonary Science. Want to learn more about how our program can help you? Visit duq.edu/ESL for more information. We can’t wait to meet you!!

08/31/2020

Happy First Day of Class 🥳 Wishing our students a great semester. We are so glad you chose to study at Duquesne University!

07/16/2020

07/08/2020

The International Student Services team at Duquesne understands that the new guidance regarding student immigration can be confusing. We are here to answer any questions or concerns regarding the new regulations and support you in these important decisions. Please visit our website to read more about the Immigration and Citizenship Enforcement (ICE) guidelines and how it will affect you, and of course, you can reach out to our staff members with any specific concerns.

Current students: https://bit.ly/iceupdatecurrentstudents

New or prospective students: https://bit.ly/iceupdatenewstudents

“As a University founded by immigrants in order to provide education to immigrants here in Pittsburgh so they could advance themselves, we are committed to doing everything we can to help those students who have chosen Duquesne. We value their presence on our campus and in our programs, and we support their work and commitment to their studies. The new federal regulations raise serious concerns and will create challenges. We do believe we can overcome them for our international students. We have reached out to students to provide support and assistance, and because Duquesne will be operating this fall with a hybrid mix of in-person and remote instruction, it is likely most or all of our international students will be enrolled in in-person courses.”
-Dr. David Dausey, Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs