Improve your English competency to an IELTS score of 5 or higher.

Enrich your English learning experience through computer / information and communication technology (ICT).

Enhance English proficiency for social communication and interpersonal use.

Prepare students to meet the challenges of the real world by focusing on language use in an English speaking culture and educational institution.

Focus on learning essential language macro-skills of written and spoken English with reading, listening and speaking, writing, grammar and vocabulary being taught.

Level 2: English for Informational Use          

Focus on social communication so that students will be able to communicate more accurately and confidently in an English speaking environment. There will be emphasis on accent reduction and correct intonation.

Improve the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing to enable students to access, process and present information in English.

Focus on reading strategies for approaching narrative, creative and informative writing such as writing short stories and letters.

Expose students to realistic IELTS test practices so that they become familiar with the requirements and format of the IELTS test.

Refine the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills of the students so that they can access, process and present information orally and in writing in English for academic purposes.

Cater to the specific academic needs of the students intending to pursue the business and hospitality courses at DISTED, thus vocabulary and the registers of business and hospitality management will be emphasized.

Enable students to access knowledge on the Internet and to improve ICT skills in English.

Level 4: English for Academic Use

Expose students to the requirements of the IELTS test and improve English proficiency to an IELTS score of higher than 5 so that students will be better prepared for college life in an English speaking institution locally or abroad.

Focus on using the English language for academic purposes and a wide variety of reading materials of increasing difficulty will be used with particular emphasis on content related to business and management.

Enable students to access knowledge on the Internet and to improve ICT skills in English.

How Long You Study
3 normal semesters and 1 short semester over 15 months totalling 54 credit hours.

What You Need to Enrol
Completed high school or upper secondary school, and a diagnostic/placement test.

Well-established and highly regarded college in Penang and very experienced in conducting tertiary courses.

Qualified, experienced, dedicated and caring lecturers.

Optimum class size with close personal attention by lecturers.

Excellent academic and pastoral care to students.
 

Close monitoring of students’ academic progress.

Ideal learning environment at our purpose-built Yeap Chor Ee Campus with excellent modern facilities.

The International Student Office caters to the needs and well-being of foreign students by providing a range of services and student support programmes.
 

Suweena Klanarong (right) from Nakhonsrithammarat Province, Thailand, receiving her certificate of achievement in English from DISTED international student officer Jacinta Wong Chin Ying.
 

I got the refreshing opportunity to use learning materials that made improving English fun. Many of them were new to me, which I never came across before in my English degree studies at Mae Fha Luang University in Chaing Rai, at which I'm a first year student (2010).

The lecturers are not only good in teaching but also, easily approachable for personal guidance.

The college is an English speaking environment and English is widely used in Penang. Hence, I had ample chance to practise spoken English with my Malaysian and other international friends and the public.

By taking part in activity-based coursework involving group work and presentation, I've enhanced my self-confidence in public speaking besides honing English proficiency.

It was certainly worthwhile to spend my summer university break to enrich my English skills at DISTED.

I'm very tempted to study  again at the college in future as DISTED is a good educator of English with friendly and helpful lecturers and administrative staff."
 

Jiang Aiyu
Certificate in Intensive English alumna from China

The college’s English programme, with emphasis on professional and commercial purposes, is relevant for the workplace in China especially that related to international trading.

Penang is a nice place for study and to have a good time. There’re so many places of interest and countless types of food in its multi-racial society.

As English is widely used in Penang, a foreign student can really improve his or her English very fast."