SCC Offers New Course For Non-Native Speakers Pursuing Studies in Health Care

Published: 08/06/2010

The course will teach English language skills to students entering health care programs in American colleges. Skills taught will include communicating in health care facilities, reading health care textbooks, medical terminology and culture in American healthcare.

“Nursing and other health care fields are highly communicative fields,” said Gayle Feng-Checkett, SCC professor of English/ESL and ESL program coordinator. “This course will help non-native speakers to be successful in their pursuit of an education and better prepare them to enter the health care field.”

“Success in Health Care Careers for Non-Native Speakers,” or ESL 120, is a three-credit-hour course. The course was designed by Virginia Daugherty, SCC professor of nursing, in cooperation with SCC’s English as a Second Language program.

Non-native speakers interested in ESL courses for college credit, including grammar, reading, writing and pronunciation skills, may register for a number of day or evening classes. Prerequisite courses may be required for enrollment. For more information on academic ESL classes, contact Feng-Checkett at 636-922-8574.

English as a Second Language courses at SCC offer non-native speakers the opportunity to participate in a full program to improve their reading, grammar, composition and speaking skills through both credit and non-credit English as a Second Language and reading courses.

St. Charles Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit www.stchas.edu.