Corporate English training courses are a valuable tool for leaders in the business world to have readily available. Especially for the companies that employ ESL workers (who speak English as a Second Language) knowing that corporate English training courses exist, and they serve to fulfill your business objectives is a relief for many businesses regardless of industry. By offering decision makers the ability to customize our curriculum✅ our English courses for employees are truly people centered, business focused✅. In that, English training will always center around your actual employees, their needs and learning pace; while remaining focused on your goals. For instance, maybe you own a construction business and you need your ESL employees to improve their English skills while emphasizing industry specific vocabulary, and highlighting safety trainings for their specific roles in your company. Or maybe you are a business owner in the agricultural industry and some of your employees are hard to understand and want to focus on accent reduction and pronunciation. Whatever your reason is for offering corporate language training to employees, we can help you achieve those goals. While different English as a Second Language learners struggle with different aspects of the language, improving upon written English is something many employers need from their ESL employees. Here's some common written English mistakes and how to avoid them...
Top written ESL mistakes in corporate English training courses, and how to avoid them:
1. Switching tenses is a common mistake in corporate English training courses
English lessons for adults can be stressful not only for employees but for the companies they work for as well. With written English, we see a lot of unnecessary switching of tenses between past, present and future. If your employees are struggling with professional English writing skills, switching tenses too often can make it very confusing for the reader to make sense of the document. Which can reflect poorly on your business especially with official communication like contracts, emails and more.
How to improve: The first step is to highlight the issues in a constructive and helpful manner. Shame and embarrassment will only make the issues worse. After showing where mistakes were made, it can be helpful to have your employee create a timeline of events to keep them in order, and providing assistance with correct verb tenses (example: go, going, will go, I went).
2. Excessively long paragraphs is a mistake in corporate English training courses
Professional skills trainings when learning English online during corporate English training courses can be very helpful, especially with improving upon written English skills. Our expert instructors✅ for a corporate English course will be able to recognize why certain paragraphs are too long, how to edit them down and how to make it sound more professional. Excessively long paragraphs are far too common with ESL learners, and native speakers alike.
How to improve: As always, ensuring that employees know where they went wrong is the essential first step. Avoiding excessively long paragraphs is a case-by-case basis, but a great place to start is having employees understand exactly what needs to be said in each paragraph, the reason behind that, and then having them make an outline of what each paragraph serves to say.
Our highly engaging In-Person English Training for employees and interactive Corporate English classes online with live native-speaking teachers are easy to access from wherever you are. We offer Real-Time Private and Group Corporate English Training. Get a Free Quote for your Industry Specific Onsite or Online English Classes for Companies.
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