ESL Mentoring Service
A free mentoring service for intermediate adult English language learners.
ESL Mentoring is a learner-driven service that provides free mentoring to intermediate-level, adult ESL (English as a Second Language) learners who want to improve their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and grammar skills. Our mentors help connect learners to the community through partnerships, collaboration, and resource navigation based on learner goals. Learners work one-on-one with a native English-speaking mentor on projects designed specifically to get them where they want to go in life, at school, in their career, and anywhere else they want to succeed.
ESL Mentors are essential in helping English-learning members of our community reach their goals.
What is an ESL Mentor? How can I be one?
As a mentor, you’ll be trained, provided with resources, and have the support of library staff and a community of other mentors to work with an intermediate-level English learner. Working together, you’ll design and complete projects that improve their English fluency and help them make progress towards their defined goal(s).
You’ll be an advocate, helping your assigned learner navigate community resources, creating new personal connections, building confidence, and, ultimately, fulfilling their dreams.
Three hours per week (1.5 hours to meet with learner and estimated 1.5 hours of prep time) for a minimum of 6 months.
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“I’m so lucky to be one of the first students in this mentoring program at the Poudre Public Library. With the help of this program, I learned to talk about my goals for graduate school, passed my TOEFL exam, and created my own Chinese Recipe Food blog. This was fun because it helped with my homesickness, taught me lots of new vocabulary, and helped me realize that I enjoy being a storyteller – sharing memories of my family and foods. I’m amazed that the flavors of my home can be shared with people online and even written in a new language!”
–MIYA, ESL Learner from China
“I came to Fort Collins for a better future for me and my family. When I got here my English was very poor and a friend of mine told me about the conversational English group at the Poudre River Public Library. Later I started the Mentoring program and I can now have a conversation in English thanks to this program. My goal is to be a police officer in Fort Collins and I know I can reach that goal with this program.”
–EFRAIN, ESL Learner from Puerto Rico
“This mentoring program is greatly improving my English by working on projects oriented to my specific goals such as creating my elevator pitch, learning new vocabulary, designing a class about making a bullet journal, and more. I am very happy to be participating in this service and really enjoy studying with my mentor.”
–FEYZA, ESL Learner from Turkey
Take lessons in more than 70 different languages, including English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.
Join a friendly, informal setting for English language learners to practice their English and connect with others.
