Suffolk University Dakar ELI is a comprehensive program designed to give students the essential language and academic skills required to succeed as university degree candidates. Small classes with highly qualified instructors ensure that students have the necessary attention and structure to prepare for degree-level studies.

The ELI program offers a range of language instruction for students, including day academic preparation classes, adult professionals’ evening classes and corporate English classes and customized private tutorials. Qualified instructors with comprehensive English-language teaching experience teach small classes that give students the necessary personal attention to thrive and succeed.

The comprehensive ELI curriculum emphasizes:

• Academic reading and writing
• Critical thinking
• Lecture and note taking
• Conversation
• Research projects using Internet and Library resources
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Language proficiency, grammar, and vocabulary
• Computer skills
• Public speaking and presentation skills

Requisite proficiency levels for admission to the following ELI courses:

ELI Sessions

Courses are offered in successive twelve (12) weeks intensive day and nine (9) weeks for the evening sessions, whereas the TOEFL preparation class fifty (50) hours long.

Placement Test

The ELI Department administers low-cost placement test on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3:00 Pm. Test is 3 000 F CFA and no appointment is necessary.

Registration Fees

Calendar of the Academic year:

Day classes       

Session 45:  April 20 – July 3, 2009
Session 46: July 20th – August 21, 2009
Special Summer session: 8:30 am – 1 pm  
 120,000 CFA
Session 47: September 14 – December 4, 2009

Evening classes

March 23-May 22, 2009
June 29 – August 28, 2009
Sept 14 - November 13, 2009