Upon arrival in Dublin, each new student is encouraged to make an appointment to meet personally with our Director of Studies, Stephen Salvati. This is an informal and very friendly meeting so students can feel welcome and familiarize themselves with the surroundings and location. If students have any questions or queries it is our policy to deal with any issues or concerns prior to class commencement.
On the first day, your level of English Language and its needs are extensively assessed. The different components of the evaluation test allow us to establish your current level of English.
To individualize your learning experience, you complete a needs analysis questionnaire, which allows us to integrate your objectives into the course content. Our successful learner-centered approach to teaching allows you to achieve your goals. Teachers focus on practical communication and learning skills and encourage you to participate actively in the process of learning.
Pair and group work ensure that you have many opportunities to practice speaking and listening in a stimulating and supportive learning environment. You have a progress test and a personal tutorial with your principal teacher each week.
As an extension of our personalized approach to learning, a member of the academic team is present in the study room to help and advise you.
Our General English course will improve your communication by developing your interactive listening and speaking skills. On your first day you will undertake a short language assessment to help you decide what class you should join. Our Director of Studies is available to advise and guide you if required.
The General English Language Course is divided into four different levels as follows:
- Basic
- Elementary
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Once a student has successfully the completed the advanced course, he/she may join the advanced TOEFL/FCE courses, leading them to obtaining a TOEFL or FCE certificate.
- Class sizes are small (Average 12)
- All students are adults! (18 years +)
- Learn with others who have a similar level
- Professional, Qualified, Friendly teachers
- A wide variety of activity-based tasks to improve listening and speaking skills
- Classes include role-play, fact-gathering tasks and problem-solving
- Opportunities are also provided to deal with individual requirements in pronunciation, grammar and syntax.
Classes run Monday-Friday. Morning, afternoon and evening class options are available to facilitate full-time or part-time workers and students.
Faculty Information:
Director of Studies: Stephen Salvati
Stephen has been teaching English to international students in Dublin, Ireland for over ten years. Having a B.A. in Literature & Psychology, M.Ed in Education and a Doctorate PhD in Philosophy of Educational Psychology, Stephen has taught and lectured in numerous colleges and universities across Europe and Asia including: State University of Tehran, Iran; English Language Center of Ankara, Turkey; C.M.A. Athens, Greece; Sofia State College, Bulgaria; Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland and Intercollege, Larnaca, Cyprus. Stephen is assisted by his personally selected teachers and has a history of top-class results for scores of international students.
Our English Language Center is now a certified TOEFL center (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Over 97% of our students last year successfully passed their TOEFL exams, the majority of which were awarded very high grades.
Other Activities:
We also incorporate a film institute, which produces feature films and also provides film making classes on Saturdays. English language students of our Center are invited to observe one film making workshop for free, should they be potentially interested in joining.
Several promising students from the film making course joined our production team at the Cannes Film Festival, France in May 2007 and 2008. The film making classes cover all levels of production: acting, directing, camera work, producing, storyboarding, creative writing and they end with fun, energetic martial arts/stunts training classes at the nearby Trinity College gym.
Facility Information:
Our English Language Center is located on the Top Floor of 29 Wicklow Street, Dublin. It is just off Dublin's famous and central Grafton Street. The language school is extremely accessible by bus, DART train and LUAS tram for students residing in Dublin's suburbs. Its location is within easy walking distance of all of Dublin’s main tourist attractions, including Temple Bar, Trinity College, art galleries, museums, theatres and parks.
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Notes:
25 hours teaching per month minimum per student at 250 euro per month.
All teaching materials, books/booklets/CDs etc, are available at the school. The cost of these materials averages an extra 15-20 euro per month per student.
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