GENERAL INFORMATION

Communicative English provides language training for business people and professionals active in a wide variety of fields, including banking and finance, insurance, law, leasing, internal and external audit, human resources and manufacturing.

We take the task of language training with the utmost seriousness. Course are organised with great care, and teachers prepare thoroughly for lessons. We complement the personal interaction of teacher and student with an online learning facility, Communicative English Online, and a whole variety of up-to-date teaching materials and aids. We take great satisfaction in seeing hard work—both the participants' and ours—crowned with success.

Being well acquainted with the field of language training, we believe Communicative English can offer precisely what companies and individual participants seek: high-quality courses at a reasonable price.

Teachers

The Communicative English team is made up of experienced, dedicated language teachers. Communicative English director Mrs Judy Cohn has been teaching English and organising language courses for 25 years.

The Communicative English teachers are native speakers from Britain, North America and beyond. University educated and with broad backgrounds, they are familiar with participants’ needs and approach their work in a professional, enthusiastic manner.

Method

Participants in a Communicative English course are carefully guided towards their objectives from beginning to end. At the outset, prospective participants are interviewed and given a needs analysis and diagnostic test to determine their objectives and present level. With this information in hand, we are able to plan the course and select the appropriate materials.

As the course gets underway, the emphasis is on interaction. Participants have lots of opportunity to practise. Grammar points are dealt with, of course, but the stress falls upon practical use.

Up-to-date and highly regarded materials are used throughout—from Oxford, Cambridge and other well-known publishers. These materials include the course book that participants receive, as well as audio and video material, and still more. Participants in speaking/comprehension courses receive Memophrase Recordings, which are recordings of items covered during the lessons. Used by the participants between sessions, the Memophrase Recordings are the ideal aid to acquiring fluency and steer the participant towards natural pronunciation and intonation.

The participants' progress is regularly evaluated and the original objectives can be modified or adapted according to changing needs. Moreover, student-generated evaluations augment the constant student–teacher interaction in ensuring that the course stays on track.

When the course comes to an end, we issue a comprehensive Final Report detailing the way in which the course has proceeded and in what situations the participant can now function in the target language and to what degree of skill.

Communicative English writing courses have their own specific methodology. For details, see the section dealing with these courses.

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