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Welcome to our web site!
This site has been created as a medium for teachers and adult students of English for Speakers
of Other Languages to use to share experiences. It is designed primarily for intermediate to advanced students and
their teachers.
Last updated May 15, 2012
Our students come from all over the world
Various topics are discussed on the pages of
this site. To find the topic you are interested in and to download material, click on the "Topics" heading in the navigation
bar in the upper left corner of this page.
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About Belmont International English
An English language school for international students has been in operation at
the Belmont United Methodist Church since 1966. Through the generosity of the church members, around four thousand students
from many countries have been helped to improve their proficiency in English and their understanding of American culture. For many years, this program was administered by the Nashville Metro School System.
Later, it was administered by Nashville State Community College, and recently, by the Tennessee Technology Center at
Nashville. The Tennessee Technology Center will continue to administer a program to help international students
obtain the General Education Development (GED) certificate, but the advanced ESL program will henceforth be independent and
will be called Belmont International English. From the ESL students' standpoint, nothing of significance will change.
ESL classes will still be offered during the academic year free of charge at the Belmont United Methodist Church, 2007 Acklen
Ave., in Hillsboro Village, near Vanderbilt. For further information, go to "contact us" in the upper left
corner of this screen. We welcome new students. We work
hard, but we have fun, too.
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Director The director of Belmont
International English is Dr. Frank Jones. Dr. Jones has been teaching for over fifty years. He was Lab Instructor in
biochemistry at the University of Tennessee Medical Units in 1956, and was Teaching Assistant in Orthopedic Surgery at the
University of Vermont in 1960-61. While in practice from 1967 to 1998, he was Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedics
and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at Meharry, and Associate Clinical Professor of
Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. After retirement, he taught English as a Second Language at
Nashville Tech (Now Nashville State Community College) in 1999, and for the past thirteen years, he has taught at Belmont
International English and its antecedent organizations. Dr. Jones received
the M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1958, the M.S. degree in Orthopedic Surgery from the Mayo Graduate School
of the University of Minnesota in 1967, the M.A. degree in French from Vanderbilt in 1995, and the M.Ed. degree, with emphasis
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