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.
As the most spoken language in the world, English has become the lingua franca of business and government. By offering ESL courses to employees that have relocated or plan to relocate, companies provide dynamic growth opportunities to their workforce and increase the chance of strategic success.
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 the U.S. as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, Asia, Oceania, 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, and WhatsApp.
Start by completing the online needs analysis, and we will contact you to chat about your goals and 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 in greater depth about your program either in person or over the phone, and plan your class and curriculum options!
Contact us to get the conversation started. One of our language specialists would love to talk with you about your company’s language needs and determine what you want and need for success. Our curriculum coordinators will then develop a program best suited to your business or organization and put together the appropriate schedule for your group language program.
That depends. Gaining fluency or proficiency is individual, although there are several factors that play a key role in speeding up the process. These factors include prior language experience, how often you practice the language out of class, your personal motivation, and your natural language aptitude.
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 on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and provides descriptions 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.
LTC will assess your language skills by using an online assessment and/or a face-to-face assessment. Our language experts will combine and evaluate the results from your assessments and provide you with your current level and what you need to do to gain proficiency at that level and advance.
LTC can provide a holistic report that includes both global and local descriptions of your employee’s language progress at three key points—beginning, middle, and end. When we enter into an agreement to provide language instruction, we will use the number of total hours purchased (or planned) to determine the timetable for the halfway point as well as the end point. Your report will explain what your employee is able to do in the language as well as areas that need more focus.
We recommend adult learners study a minimum of once per week for 1.5 hours. Individuals who study in increments of 50 hours typically see clear progress throughout the program.
To get started, individuals purchase a minimum of 30 training hours. Once those hours have been used, additional 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 other materials!
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. At a minimum, instructors hold bachelor’s degrees, though many hold advanced degrees.
Each instructor is carefully selected by your program manager to work with you and help you achieve your language goals. Your instructor 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.
Probably, yes. Our first choice is always to keep students paired with the same teachers from start to finish. But in some circumstances, for example, if you go on an extended vacation, miss 15 consecutive business days, or some other unforeseen issue occurs – you may be placed with a new teacher.
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.
No, there are no prerequisites to take an LTC language training course. We welcome everyone, regardless of your level of language proficiency!
