Business English in Action
Model Language Studio creates materials and situations tailored to each company. Classes function as direct-experience laboratories in which students simulate the conversations, meetings, negotiations, and presentations in which they will engage in their real business. Instructors provide feedback on how a native English speaker perceives what is said – enabling students to fine-tune communication skills. The result is nuanced speech students can put to use the moment they walk out the door.
A child learns to eat, walk, and talk through trial and error;
she or he learns with the body, not only the mind.
Similarly, managers in Japan emphasize the importance of learning
from direct experience as well as through trial and error.
Like a child learning to eat, walk, and talk,
they learn with their minds and bodies.
from "Knowledge-Creating Company" written by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
Learning from direct experience
What do fluent speakers of English as a second language, concert pianists, Olympic athletes and Nobel Prize winning scientists have in common? Practice practice practice. The accumulation of direct experiences.
Business English in Action is practice. Improvisations, simulations, and student-led activities give students the experience and practice that leads to perfection.
It's the direct experience of really doing something that develops a true understanding of it - only then can it be mastered.
Trial and error
Most people learn their native language through trial and error. Children try to communicate their desires. Parents correct their errors. Children learn the most effective language for getting what they want. Business English in Action is natural language learning. Our instructors don’t lecture, they give feedback on how students can speak more effectively.
BE in Action - Active learning
Business English in Action squarely puts the focus where it belongs: on each student’s impulse to communicate their own thoughts and opinions. MLS materials and exercises are designed to tear students away from the page and get them speaking with each other – trying out words, expressions, tone, emphasis, rhythm, and body language. Students actively experience what works and what does not.
Talk & Listen, 7 Steps
Direct experience teaches more thoroughly than memorizing lists of vocabulary words, grammar drills, rote memorization, and flat dialogue reading. Business English in Action gives students the tools and the confidence they need to communicate effectively.
