Customized ESL (English as a Second Language) can be anything you need it to be. We can focus your customized curriculum to highlight industry language training so that your employees are only learning the most relevant and job specific terminology. We can also highlight professional skills trainings like accent modification for customer service, or writing in English to improve proposals and contracts. The best part is that our customized English training for business remains people centered, business focused. Meaning that we work with you to develop a 100% customized ESL program that addresses your business needs, while centering your associates enrolled in our Business English course and their needs.
You might be wondering what a customized ESL curriculum looks like. Well, let's pretend you own a Halloween business. Here's 3 ways we can offer customized ESL to your associates in the context of Halloween...
Customized ESL curriculum for a Halloween client
1. Relevant vocabulary
A customized ESL curriculum for a Halloween store should include vocabulary that isn't typically used in everyday conversations. Customized corporate language training for a Halloween store, would include vocabulary like:
- Costumes: Ghoul, witch, wizard, vampire etc
- Decorations: haunted house, Jack-o-lantern, pumpkin, cobwebs etc
- Expressions: scared stiff, spine-chilling, practical jokes, trick-or-treating etc
2. Common idioms and phrases
As if the English language isn't hard enough, native speakers like to employ sarcasm, idioms or puns into language. Your smart and hardworking ESL associates at this fictional "Halloween store" could have all the knowledge and expressions in the world, and still not know feel left out of jokes or puns used in your workplace.
3. Immersing in culture
Halloween in the United States is a big deal, especially in metropolitan cities. Corporate office buildings decorate every floor and allow children to come through the building for trick-or-treating. Helping ESL employees at your workplace with a customized ESL program, can incorporate cultural diversity training. We can provide the why that helps them understand our Halloween celebrations. And it can help your English speaking workers understand your ESL associates.
Your company probably isn't a Halloween store. In this example, we provided 3 different examples of how we could provide a customized ESL curriculum for a made up company. So whether yours is a white-collar, or a blue collar business it doesn't really matter. Every industry requires a certain understanding of language. Every company has a specific approach and every department within it has a specific way of doing things. There's a million different ways we can provide a customized ESL experience beyond these 3 examples of how we can ensure your associates thrive in their respective working environments.
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.
For more information contact our Language Training Department:
Phone: (617) 731-3700
Email: training@languageconnections.com
