ELI's 70th Anniversary
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- Summer 2023 EAP Goes to Detroit!
- Conversations Circles Fall Harvest Gathering
- ELI Student Spotlight - Yunhee Kim
- Winter 2024 Course for International Scholars, Researchers, Faculty, Staff, and Post-Docs Now Open for Registration
- Student to Student Event: Gingerbread Houses Decorating!
- ELI Student Spotlight - Yuri Augusto Carreiro
- Language, Culture, and Lacrosse!
- ELI Student Spotlight - Wenfei Pei
- ELI’s Student-to-Student: Mardi Gras Celebration!
- ELI Student Spotlight - Noor Klait
- ELI’s Student-to-Student: St. Patrick’s Day!
- ELI Conversation Circles “Spring Is Sprung” Gathering
- ELI Research Project Wins a Blue-Ribbon at the UROP Symposium
- ELI Welcomes Summer EAP Students
- Third Annual ELI Ice Cream Social
- ELI Student Spotlight - Xiong Zeng
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- Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos Named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar
- Diane Larsen-Freeman in the News
- ELI Lecturer Pamela Bogart’s Coursera Course Reaches a Major Milestone
In June 1941, by action of the Board of Regents, the English Language Institute was established at the University of Michigan.
The charge to the ELI was twofold: to conduct research in teaching English as a foreign language and to test new scientifically-based materials for the teaching of English.
In the first year, the ELI inaugurated an intensive course in English as a foreign language, the first ever offered on a university campus in the Western Hemisphere.
Read more of the ELI's story on our History page.
Release Date:
09/24/2011