English Language Center

I was very impressed with ELC, the staff, the director and the students.
They even have a summer program at UCLA, which is basically week to week, which is great if you don’t want to go for a month and/​or just want to visit the USA for a week or two or more.
The one negative I would add is during the summer there were teenagers in our class, students that were still in high school, which made quite a difference in the tone of the room. They really weren’t serious about their studies and were here to party more or less. Some of the adults students found this distracting.

Teachers were excellent and competent and enjoyable.

They used the Betty Azar Grammar books. Skills were broken down into grammar, conversation, etc… Used a series of books for each class.
I like the way they broke down the skills into different classes.

I went to ELC for 3 months. I am sure ELC is good school!
The location is in a very convenient place. There are lots of cafés and restaurants nearby the school. I often went to a library, which stands behind the school.
ELC staff is also nice. Even though they can speak different languages, they always keep the policy, «English only,» strictly. How staff and students keep the policy is different from schools. Once I went to another language school. Compared to the different school, ELC is stricter, so it was good practice for me to speak with them in English.
The teachers in ELC are also great.
I took 3 kinds of classes-​grammar, conversation, writing and reading.
*Grammar class: we used ELC original textbooks, well prepared and easy to understand for foreign students. Personally, the textbooks were better than that of Japanese.
*Conversation: I could learn not only daily conversation but also some kinds of academic topics through making presentation or speech. Sometimes, we discussed about health insurance, earthquake, literature, biology and so on.
*Writing and reading: I wrote down several paragraphs almost every day. The topics are varied such as «teenage driver,» «home schooling,» «entertainment industry» and so on. For me, to write essays was good practice to express ideas clearly and also worked well to review about grammatical points.
Thanks to ELC, I could learn English as a foreign language, not for entrance exams.

This is the best school ever! It’s my third time at ELC. I was studying at another one which was completely terrible. ELC staff is always polite, friendly and helpful. They absolutely will take care of students. The teachers are wonderful and amazing. moreover all of them are going to improve students’ English really fast. Also it’s a great location. I will definitely study there again!