The Foreign Language Institute now brings three programs together under one roof: foreign-language instruction for our community, academic English preparation for incoming international students, and teacher-training certification for English-language educators.
Foreign Languages
Who can attendCollege students at MSU and partner institutions, high schoolers earning transferable
credit, and community members — including youth summer camps. |
English as a Foreign Language — I SucceedA 14-credit, first-semester course package for new international undergraduates pairing academic English with campus orientation — required at B1, optional at B2+.
Who can attendNew international undergraduates — required at English level B1, and open by choice
to students at B2 or higher. |
CELTA Teacher Training
Who can attendAnyone starting or advancing a career in TEFL/TESOL — no prior teaching experience required. |
Choose a Language
Hear from our Students
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
“After one week, I understood the program really helped me feel more confident when
I talk to people — and I started to talk more like a native speaker. That made me
really happy about my English.”
Alessandro _____________________________ “At first the hardest thing was speaking English with confidence. Little by little that changed — now I feel really proud of my progress, and that confidence opened new opportunities for me, including the job I have today.”
Pablo |
CELTA“It was well-organized, the students were patient and interested, and the atmosphere
was supportive.”
CELTA graduate “[What I liked about CELTA was] the genuine interest that teachers had in ensuring student successes over the course of the program, the limited actual attendance hours so more work could be done interspersed throughout the week, the appropriate sequential increase in difficulty and complexity of the assignments at a rate for which it was easy to keep course.”
CELTA graduate |
How to enroll
Determine what course options the Foreign Language Institute can offer you.
Attending the FLI
- Most courses are held in downtown Springfield, in the Jim D. Morris Center
- Most courses are held in the evenings
- For-credit courses are taught in a four-semester sequence
Partner Institutions
Contact the Foreign Language Institute
- Location
- Jim D. Morris Center Downtown Springfield, MO
- Telephone
- 417-836-5000
- Relay Missouri
- 711 or 800-735-2966
- FLI@MissouriState.edu
- Address
- Missouri State University
Springfield