English Language Courses in Trinidad

Centre for Language Learning, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago:
The Centre for Language Learning at The University of the West Indies (UWI) is located in St. Augustine, a town on the East-West Corridor of Trinidad and Tobago (approximately 15 km east of Port of Spain) and offers an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Programme for international students. St. Augustine is located east of Curepe and west of Tunapuna. The Centre for Language Learning (CLL) was established in 1997 to enable students and staff at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, to develop proficiency in a foreign language. English as a Foreign Language is now also taught to international students and professionals. We provide excellent facilities, vibrant culture and a learning experience you can find nowhere else.

At the Centre for Language Learning, The University of the West Indies, our staff are well qualified and experienced specialists in the field of EFL, which ensures quality in language teaching. We are committed to providing you with a high standard of English as a Foreign Language education to help develop your language skills so you can advance your career and achieve your ambitions.

The English as a Foreign Language Programme which was established in 1990 through the Centre for Language Learning has now expanded to facilitate the burgeoning English language learning needs from the francophone and hispanophone Caribbean and South America.

The Centre for Language Learning promotes communicative and intercultural competence in its programmes. Our aim is to empower students to use the target language (English) in order to understand information, to express themselves orally and in writing and to communicate with native and non-native speakers of the language. An important part of knowing a foreign language is developing a critical understanding of target language cultures and developing an ability and willingness to engage with these cultures.

Students who enrol in the centre’s courses are seeking to gain skills to survive in the target culture. This means that our classes are conducted as far as possible in the target language and students are supported to develop confidence to express themselves fluently. While pronunciation is monitored and grammatical structures are taught, the focus at all times is on enabling students to use and expand their communicative repertoire in the target language.

Our English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Programme has provided international students with quality English language tuition for over 20 years. The English as a Foreign Language Programme generally accepts students who have a pre-intermediate or higher level of English.

English language courses include:

- General English language course
- TOEFL English langugae exam preparation course
- English language conversation course
- English language pronunciation course
- English language writing course
- Business English language course

- Additional languages taught include:  Spanish, French, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Yoruba.

Teaching Strategies:
Both inductive and deductive strategies are employed in the EFL classroom. The teacher’s role is that of a guide and it is expected that students take responsibility for their own learning, i.e. students are expected to use their own initiative, asking questions to seek clarification, promoting discussion, as well as speaking to English speakers outside of class time in order to maximize the learning process.