Effective Communication Key to Success
Last Updated March 10th, 2006
 You use it every day but you probably take it for granted. You think you know it well, or maybe not as well as you’d like. It’s a huge part of your everyday life but you may not ever think about it.
It isn’t an object or a tool, or even a person. It’s the English language.
Despite the fact that we live in a country where English is one of the official languages and is spoken daily by an overwhelming majority of the population, there are a variety of ways in which the English language is used and taught.
The way an executive speaks when giving a speech to his or her peers is likely to be significantly different than the language used by a comedian to make people laugh, just as a university professor’s use of the language to teach a class can be considerably different from the way a hockey team’s coach would teach a practice drill.
In almost every profession there is a certain level of jargon, terminology, lingo, and slang that helps make it distinct. Each has its own nuances not always readily recognized to the average ‘outsider’. Learning how to communicate effectively isn’t easy, but it’s an area that International Language Preparation College specializes in.
ILP College is one of the premiere English language education centers in Canada, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Toronto. Accessible by public transit, and close to all amenities.
Whether you’re interested in learning basic conversational English or you’re improving your linguistsics for working in the business world, there are challenges that will test your will and patience. How you respond to those will go a long way in determining how far you can go in expanding your horizons.
Take Business English, for instance. A two-month course at the ILPCollege takes you from perhaps being intimidated at writing a business proposal to putting together creative ideas eloquently that would impressive many in a meeting or during a presentation.
This is exactly the kind of help Miguel Angel Rodrigues was looking for when he signed up at ILP College. In need of better English to help him with his new job back home in Mexico, Rodrigues says he found just what he was looking for.
“We practice business vocabulary and writing on the computer with the newest software,” he says. “This college offers real presentations with field trips to companies, so that we can see how they do their presentations.”
Students like Rodrigues are put in challenging positions where they have to try their best to learn at ILP College. Whether that means doing live presentations or reading out loud to the class, the small class sizes assist those who have some anxiety.
But what about those ESL students who are terrified at not being able to say anymore than “yes” and “no” yet manage to speak and read sentences after finishing a four-week course? It happens every day.
Students at ILP College know about this all too well. Nana Kodama — who first heard about the school through word-of-mouth in her native Japan — is a good example.
“At first, I was stressed a little bit before I started my classes because it’s a professional language school,” she says. “Classes are smaller so the quality is very good. I have been with ILPCollege for three months and have learned many good things.”
Classes are intensive and range from as little as four weeks to an entire year, with an average of five to eight students per class. Specialized courses in Advanced and Exam Preparation courses are also available, running two months with 10-30 hours of classroom time.
The results are there though, as Jun Higuchi would attest. Having come to ILP College from Japan with no knowledge of English, Higuchi can now hold her own in an everyday conversation. This helped land her a volunteering job at a nursing home.
“Many students in Japan have recommended ILP College because of its curriculum and programs, which are both very nice,” she says.
In its five years, ILP College has seen many students come and go from all over the world. The hard work and perseverance seems to be paying off, now that 97% of graduates at ILP College gain admission into Canada’s best universities.
For that to happen, students must first pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), an Internet-based testing process that ultimately determines how good a foreign student is with English and what educational options they have.
With such a diverse population, providing immigrants and newcomers with all the proper language tools becomes vitally important to maintaining the pluralistic and multicultural society Canada is best known for.
“The students all work so hard and ILP College has a strict method of assisting them to improve their skills, as well as making the atmosphere comfortable and friendly,” says Maria Mahmoudian, ILP College’s founder and coordinator.
This means that the school lends a hand to help foreign students get accustomed to their new surroundings. Whether that’s helping them find an apartment or giving them tips on how to adjust to life in a foreign place, ILPCollege does what it can even outside the classroom.
Although the pricing for each course varies, ILPCollege is offering all of its programs for just $600 each until May 28.
Students like the ones at ILP College prove what is possible when the right teaching and environment is at their disposal. |
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