United States / Canada
Carnegie Speech spoken English training software provides academic and training enterprises, as well as individual students, with an online, personalized and cost-effective spoken English training tool that helps users get ready to learn – and get ready to work.
Getting Ready for Work
As a beacon for business opportunity and personal growth, these North American countries continue to welcome foreign nationals and immigrants. With millions of new immigrants needed just to maintain workforce stability, enabling spoken English communications among and between co-workers, partners and customers is not just a competitive advantage – it's a competitive requirement.
To illustrate:
- Expatriate business professionals that made significant investments in their education and careers, can now invest in spoken English training software to better communicate with colleagues, clients and staff. Carnegie Speech's spoken English training software is personalized, internet-accessible and can be self-paced to better fit within the busy professional's schedule and commitments. Visit NativeAccent® for more information.
- Health care in North America benefits from a wide array of employees whose first language is not English. To make sure that mission-critical communications are both accurate and understood, spoken English training is both smart business and good health care. Visit Carnegie Speech Assessment™ and NativeAccent for more information.
- IT Services personnel from around the world continue to contribute their talents and effort to North American business enterprises. Carnegie Speech's spoken English training products give these professionals communication skills that complement their technical abilities. Visit Carnegie Speech Assessment or NativeAccent for more information.
- Government agencies require their diplomatic, military and business personnel to engage in effective, engaging and culturally relevant communications with people from around the world. From initiating dialogue to ensuring national security, effective spoken language communications are critical for success. Visit SpeakRussian™ and SpeakIraqi™ for more information
- By improving spoken English communications among its multi-national workforces, corporate diversity initiatives are strengthened as business and operational efficiencies are realized. Visit Carnegie Speech Assessment or NativeAccent for more information.
- International air traffic control and pilots seeking to meet ICAO Level 4 language proficiency requirements benefit from personalized, comprehensive and aviation specific English training offered by Carnegie Speech's aviation training product: Climb Level 4™.
Getting Ready to Learn
At Carnegie Speech, we understand that English speaking and comprehension skills are required for academic and personal success.
Requests for spoken English training and education for English as a Second Language (ESL) programs continue to expand as immigrant populations from around the world enter educational institutions. Carnegie Speech's spoken English training software helps immigrants better assimilate by improving their spoken English pronunciation skills.
In addition to improving student's spoken English scores, Carnegie Speech delivers value to the teachers and instructors. With easy to use, web-enabled reporting tools, automated student messaging and student-specific reports, teachers can easily monitor each student's progress and provide necessary motivation for spoken English improvement. Educational administrators also benefit as NativeAccent's internet-enabled, self-study language training technologies offer additional flexibility and language learning options.
Because Workforce Development Matters
To better teach students learning English as a Second Language (ESL), a major school district selected NativeAccent from Carnegie Speech to improve spoken English skills and to raise performance on standardized English tests. The results were significant, specifically:
- Class average for pronunciation scores increased by 131% with as little as 2-hours of instruction – and up to 239% with 10 or more hours of instruction.
- On standardized CASAS Listening tests, students who used NativeAccent for more than 4-hours scored an average of 5-scaled points – more than double the expected gains.
Feedback from Academic Skills / Adult Education Teacher:
- "Students thoroughly enjoyed using this program and found it easy to use."
- "The software identified which pronunciation skills to work on, with feedback to assist their improvement."
- "This software helped prepare students to move into the workplace as their spoken English skills improved significantly."