The Fluent Communication course focuses on helping participants build strategies for more quickly and smoothly communicating in English. Fluent speech requires a willingness to make mistakes, knowledge of strategies for covering vocabulary gaps, and practice developing the patterns and rhythms that make speaking easy. For many speakers of English as a second language who learned English using the translation method (still common in Asia), fluent speech can be a challenge. This is compounded in the workplace where performance pressures, organizational culture, and a fear of failure can cause employees to fear speaking up or result in speech that is slow or difficult to follow. This course is designed to help these employees increase the fluency and speed of their speech and build confidence in their English language ability.
Objective: Participants will be able to speak smoothly and naturally in English without long pauses or breaks.
Audience: Speakers of English as a second language
Class size: Up to 10 people
Length: 12 hours (2 hours x 6 weeks)
Cost: Contact us for pricing or call 408-524-1649
Class size: Up to 10 people
Length: 12 hours (2 hours x 6 weeks)
Cost: Contact us for pricing or call 408-524-1649
Topics addressed in this course:
• Speaking without translating
• Completing sentences
• Talking around unknown vocabulary
• Clarifying rapidly
• Answering questions rapidly
• Narrating events
• Speaking without translating
• Completing sentences
• Talking around unknown vocabulary
• Clarifying rapidly
• Answering questions rapidly
• Narrating events
