Enhancing Language Proficiency

What is the Importance of Language Proficiency?

Possessing good language skills is a much sought after skill at the workplace. It has been observed that employees with excellent technical skills may fail to make progress because of poor language skills.

Bodhih’s workshop for ‘Language Proficiency training’ covers a range of topics ranging from accent neutralisation to articulating thoughts effectively.

Bodhih’s workshop on Language Proficiency talks about reducing mother tongue influence, practicing vowel and consonant sounds, writing with impact, articulating thoughts effectively, identifying meta messages and mastering grammar and syntax rules.

The broad learning outcomes of the Language Proficiency training are to develop deep knowledge of the language, enhance aspects of speaking skills including contextual structure.

Language Proficiency skills and how to determine Language Proficiency is the focus of Bodhih’s workshop

Participants at Bodhih’s Language Proficiency Strategy workshop are walked through communication chain. Through case studies and real life examples, the participants understand all the possible challenges that can come in the communication cycle, namely, inaccurate expression, lack of listening, assumptions, wrong timing, wrong communication method, pre-conceived assumptions of the receiver, message being too long and complex and cultural difference and the barriers it causes.

Through class discussions, common strategies to combat and also avoid such errors of the communication cycles, are debated and work-booked by the participants.

Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles.

This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the session at the Language Proficiency training – Parts of Speech.

Through facilitator led presentations, sample exercises and individual reflection, learners are familiarised to the various aspects of parts of speech. So from verb, noun, adjective, determiner, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection – various examples are shared for elaboration and the class is encouraged to make sentences to use these parts of speech. Sample questions and in room assessments are handed out for the participants to sharpen their usage of parts of speech.
The module progresses to tenses and singular-plural, and other grammatical structures for learners to comprehend the specific usages of these and also practice class examples. Subjective – verb agreement is another chapter that is specially ear-marked for intensive practice. Learners understand that error-free usage of subject-verb agreement is a special feature that marks out good writing.

Strategies to improve English Language Proficiency is addressed in depth in the workshop’s next segment.

A deep dive into “sentence structure” is discussed in detail through facilitator led presentation and class exercises. Participants get to see and differentiate simple and complex sentence structures. There are class games to spot parallel sentence structures, and also be able to change sentence structures. The various merits of using simple, compound and complex structures are dealt by Bodhih’s trainer and case-examples are shared to illustrate the nuances of overall reader/listener impact.

At Bodhih, Business Language Proficiency Strategy and Campaigns is a popular session that is part of a larger Communication skills training suite.

The session brings latest research done on Language Proficiency best practices from across renowned language schools and speaking institutes across the globe.

The heart of Bodhih’s Language Proficiency training lies in the powerful session that – Articulation.

Participants are taught the various places of articulation – Bilabial, Labiodental, Dental, Alveolar, Post-Alveolar, Palatal, Velar, Glottal. Various words and sounds types are used in the class for the participants to experiment with and understand how the articulation centers work. Next, the vowel sounds and consonant sounds, are taken up in detail with examples and short practice. Learners receive a crash course in general guidelines of pronunciation – and also the special conditions that governs it.

Moving on, the participants understand the ways to count syllables – through the listen method rule, chin method rule, clap method rule and finally the written method rule. The class receives multiple word groups to practice syllable counting.

How would you gain from Language Proficiency program workshops at Bodhih?

Bodhih customizes its Language Proficiency training along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.

In addition to the ADDIE model, the Language Proficiency courses takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.

The edge in Bodhih’s Language Proficiency session comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to institutionalise Language Proficiency fundamentals by embedding standardized processes to learn specific grammar rules and practicing articulation in daily work situations.

What is Bodhih’s promise on Language Proficiency programs?

Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on Language Proficiency talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, higher confidence in spoken English in client and internal meetings.

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