Students from all ages, cultures, and educational backgrounds enroll in our classes in order to improve their English to accomplish their own goals.

Irvine Valley College has both an Adult English as a Second Language (AESL) program and an English as a Second Language (ESL) program. Please see below to explore the differences between each program. For the ESL and AESL course list, please refer to the ESL Course Schematic chart.

Academic writing courses offered for credit by the ESL Department have been designed specifically for the multilingual student who needs support with academic English to succeed in college-level work and beyond. These students should take the ESL assessment to be placed in the appropriate ESL or English class. Students also have the option to take Writing 1 (Transfer Level English) as well.

Do you know that students who finish the ESL course sequence by passing ESL 90 do very well in WR 1? In fact, 93% of these students pass WR 1 with a 3.3 average GPA!

The English as a Second Language (ESL) Department offers English language classes to nonnative speakers of English to help them succeed in college, at their jobs, and in the community. Students can take classes at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels during the day or at night.