Mission Statement

The primary goal of the English Language Program is to serve the richly diverse population of Northeastern by providing students with an opportunity to acquire the level of English language and written communication skills they need in order to succeed in higher education.

To accomplish this goal, the English Language Program has four primary components: the Instructional Program, Teacher/Tutor Training (for Graduate Assistants), the Writing Lab, and the International Program. Together, these components work cooperatively with academic programs throughout the university to improve the language, writing, and critical thinking skills of Northeastern’s students. The ELP’s core faculty hold tenure in the departments of Linguistics or English and continue to do scholarly work in their fields and teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs of their home departments, ensuring the quality of the program and its continued relevance to the academic mission of the university