What we do?
Instruction & Training Guidelines
Our primary objective is to impart the essential skills of communication, specifically conveying ideas, persuading, and requesting, using a variety of effective and engaging teaching methods. These methods serve as a testament to the learner's capabilities in the global industry. Recognizing that the English language has evolved into a rich and diverse form of communication, LIMA's strategies are meticulously designed to foster proficiency. Our training team emphasizes that reading for comprehension involves a blend of skills and knowledge, including vocabulary, syntax, recognizing common irregular words, engaging with texts, and more. It goes beyond mere letter decoding. We rely heavily on practitioners' understanding of the students, gained primarily through observation and interaction in daily activities and events. Consistency is a hallmark of our approach, allowing each learner to fully showcase their progress. We identify embedded learning by assessing a pupil's consistent and independent abilities in various everyday situations. Our training not only assesses a learner's writing proficiency as a means of conveying meaning across different genres but also evaluates their mastery of punctuation, spelling, and English grammar. Ultimately, our effective assessment provides a comprehensive view of students' learning and development.
Instruction & Training Programs at the Primary Level for Cambridge YLE Exams
Our training programs for primary level students focus primarily on enabling them to express their ideas confidently and accurately in English. We create awareness of phonological and lexical aspects of language, facilitating proficiency in reading skills. Vocabulary, fluency, grammar rules, and usage are progressively taught. What sets our training program apart is the rigorous research involved in defining the specific skill areas to be developed, understanding the components necessary for skill development, anticipating challenges in the learning process, and devising effective strategies to overcome these challenges. While each program may have unique elements, they all reinforce fundamental language skills such as letter recognition, word blends, rhyming words, and more. This ensures a structured language learning experience that leads to proficiency. The programs are meticulously crafted to enhance word definition, the recognition of appropriate words, understanding of multiple word meanings, word decoding, spelling, and the ability to use synonyms effectively in different contexts to avoid repetition. The crucial bridge between word recognition and comprehension, which is fluency, is emphasized throughout the training program.
We also place significant importance on comprehension, teaching learners how to decode reading materials, make connections between what they read and their existing knowledge, and analyze both direct and implied meanings in the text.
College-Level Student Training Programs For Cambridge Linguaskills & BEC
Our Communicative English training equips students with the necessary language skills to excel in standardized English language assessments worldwide. The program focuses on nuanced grammar, precise word usage, punctuation, sentence construction, and the ability to listen for meaning and respond to comprehension questions.
We emphasize the use of the target language in real-life contexts, which serves as a litmus test for the effectiveness of our training programs. Our trainers employ a deductive teaching approach, presenting content and interactions through dialogues, interaction etiquette, and patterns, followed by ample practice. This method has proven to be highly effective. We introduce learners to a wide array of language forms commonly found in non-pedagogical texts, particularly relevant in the industrial domain. To enhance aural comprehension, we deliver content to learners in audio-visual formats, anticipating language development outcomes.
In summary, our training methods are rooted in the understanding that reading for comprehension involves a blend of skills and knowledge, going beyond mere letter decoding. Our approach is practitioner-centered, drawing knowledge from observation and interaction in daily activities. We maintain a consistent pattern to enable each pupil to demonstrate their learning and development fully. Additionally, our training assesses a learner's writing skills, not only as a means of conveying meaning across different genres but also as a demonstration of proficiency in punctuation, spelling, and English grammar. Ultimately, our effective assessment provides a holistic view of students' learning and development.