Language Instruction

Welcome to America's Translators Language Instruction Department!

In today's global marketplace, competence and confidence in a second language are key components of effective communication and negotiation. The ability to communicate well on a personal and professional level is vital in order to remain competitive, and may be the deciding factor in long-term career prospects.

Services

Our program has been specifically designed to meet the needs of professionals and individuals who wish to increase their knowledge and develop proficiency in their chosen language. Courses are customized and personalized to include not only the professional, but also the social and cultural aspects of a language and may be modified to follow designated guidelines, or to include terminology inherent to a given field such as architecture, business and commerce, sales and marketing, engineering, medicine, telecommunication, tourism, etc.

• Moderate (3 hours per week)
• Average (4 hours per week)
• Semi-Intensive (6 hours per week)
• Intensive (10 hours per week)

Objectives

Our objectives are to enable learners of a second or third language to express themselves naturally with ease and confidence, and to communicate effectively in a wide range of settings. We offer a 'conversational method' of learning, focusing on improving and exercising audio-lingual capabilities.

Here are just a few of the tasks the student will be able to execute:

• Initiate and sustain formal and informal conversations
• Improve his/her comprehension of native or non-native speakers of the chosen language by at least 80% to 100%.
• Engage in telephone conversations with confidence using appropriate vernacular.
• Correctly use terms and phrases directly associated with a particular field or activity.
• Read, write and assimilate letters, faxes, documents, statistical reports, newspaper articles, etc.
• Negotiate effectively with clients and suppliers.
• Understand and participate in lectures, seminars, meetings, debates, legal proceedings, etc.
• Prepare and give presentations and speeches.

Facets to Learning a Foreign Language

As young children, we learn our native language by listening and then speaking. This is also true of the adult learning process. The purpose of any language is to communicate, first-time learners must achieve a basic understanding of vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, pronunciation and intonation before beginning conversational practice. Once a comprehensive base has been assimilated, the ability to recall and to use a new word or sentence structure improves by 100%, thereby accelerating the total learning process. It is a proven fact that students become more motivated and are able to react spontaneously once they have acquired a level of confidence about their communicative skills.

Methodology

The method known as 'Communicative' or 'Direct Method' is the proven modern-day approach to learning, used by the best language schools. It is a 'hands-on' method based on allowing the learner to be actively involved in both speaking and listening during the lesson. After every new structure or vocabulary is presented, the students are asked to practice in a sequence of controlled-activities each time relying less on the instructor and more on themselves so newly-learned syntax may become incorporated into their working knowledge.

Skills Improvement and Practice

Within the selected material presented, students' communicative and comprehensive skills are perfected to a point that they are able to be effective and in control in any variety of circumstances. The simulation of everyday real-life situations ensures that students learn quickly as they are encouraged to 'think' in the target language rather than to translate.

The use of visual images and 'props', as well as interactive role-play, helps stimulate creativity, and shortens response time making it an essential part of the learning process.

Depending on the level and specific needs of the learner, a two-hour lesson may be divided as follows:

Pronunciation---------------------------------------------15 Minutes

Grammar & Structure-----------------------------------30 Minutes

Oral Drills-----------------------------------------------------15 Minutes

Controlled Activities---------------------------------- 30 Minutes

Open Activity & Conversation-----------------------30 Minutes

*These guidelines may be varied or customized to accommodate a student's particular needs and to determine whether more focus should be placed on 'listening and speaking', or 'reading and writing'.

You may choose between the following group and individual programs:

• Group language instruction provides students with the opportunity to learn a new language or enhance their verbal and reading skills in an existing language. In-group classes, students benefit from the opportunity to converse with other students in a warm, friendly environment.
• Private language instruction allows students to rapidly gain fluency through intensive one-on-one sessions. Students can advance at their own pace, often learning a language in less than one month!
• Corporate language training programs provide classes on-site or in our classrooms for one or more students. Class sessions emphasize industry-specific business topics and culturally sensitive business communications. Executive programs enable our clients to acquire both business and general foreign language skills, even when only a brief study period is available.
• Survival Training Language for Travelers Language for General Purposes Business and Negotiation

Whether your interest is in improving, developing and exercising your already existing abilities, or if you are learning a language for the first time, we will help you to gain the language skills necessary to achieve your goals!

Contact America's Translators for more detailed information, or if you have any questions. Let us know how we can help you achieve the confidence you desire!

Please contact us to inquire further about our language instruction program.