Your instructor will build the course around your specific questions and interests, using meaningful tasks that open your eyes to the rules of the target language. In addition to gaining new linguistic skills, you’ll acquire strategies that help you continue learning beyond the classroom.
Our instruction is built around meaningful application of the target language, using articles, videos, maps, recipes, and countless other authentic, context-rich material that drive purposeful learning the relevant to your specific goals.
An intake meeting will assess your speaking, listening, reading, and writing ability in the target language. This allows us to tailor the curriculum specifically to your needs. The instructor uses this plan to track your progress and fine-tune the program to ensure you achieve your learning goals.
Martin George is more than the Founder of LTC. He’s a teacher with a Doctorate in Linguistics, who’s lived abroad, speaks at conferences, and is able to hold his own in a conversation on just about any subject. Ready to listen to The 2nd Most interesting Man in the World? Enter Martin’s Mind.
We operate language classes in over 40 states in the U.S. as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. We have been successfully working worldwide with the federal government since 2000 providing training in over 60 locations nationally and internationally to government linguists.
In addition to on-site courses, we can conduct group classes or even make a home visit if desired. If a face-to-face class is not possible to arrange due to your schedule or location, we offer classes remotely via free platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Facetime, WhatsApp, Skype, FaceTime and WhatsApp.
Start by completing the online needs analysis, and we will contact you to chat about your goals plans for study. After an initial discussion, if a language program with LTC sounds like a good fit, we’ll schedule an appointment to speak more in depth about your program either in person or over the phone, and plan your class and curriculum options!
We focus on proficiency (what you can or cannot do) rather than achievement (a numeric score) to assess your language level.
The ACTFL scale was developed by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages and provides values and ratings for each level of language proficiency. These guidelines represent a hierarchy of global characteristics of performance in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. You can learn more about the ACTFL scale to place, assess, evaluate, certify, hire, and qualify an individual’s language level by clicking here.
How can I read it? The ACTFL guidelines describe a sample of a particular range of ability and include a ten-level scale. Again, each range identifies what it is you can or cannot do in the four linguistic skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Why do we use the ACTFL scale? We rely on the ACTFL scale as it is currently being used worldwide by academic institutions, government agencies, and private corporations.
Hours can be purchased in increments of 10.
Our curriculum coordinators carefully design your curriculum and instructional materials by combining information from your needs analysis, assessment(s), purpose of study, time constraints, learning styles, and goals.
Our program managers work with your instructor to plan a syllabus for your program and design the activities, tasks, and exercises that will make up your class. These include oral, written, and listening exercises as well as readings, role plays, and conversations. Your instructor will also supplement your learning with authentic materials such as podcasts, online resources, and many more!
Your curriculum plan is customized for you!
Our instructors love language learning and education and are experienced and trained in our methodology. Their backgrounds are vast, ranging from linguistics to specific languages to education, among other areas of expertise. Instructors at minimum hold Bachelor’s degrees, though many hold advanced degrees.
Each instructor is carefully selected by your program manager to work with you and guide you to achieve your language goals. Your instructors will also report progress, success, and emerging needs to program managers, who will then organize that information and relay it to you as well as any other representative who needs it.
In some circumstances, we can arrange to transfer LTC coursework into credits for your school, but most of the time school credit is not available.
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