Your Training
Welcome to Your personalized Training Programme
Your organization has chosen the Caron Professional & Linguistic Training Centre to support you in your language development. With expertise dating back to 1976, we have developed a tailor-made programme. It adapts to your professional realities, your pace, and your organizational goals while meeting the quality standards recognized by both the federal government and Canadian businesses.
Discover the programme we offer.
ProgramME Overview
This method consists of six levels which are divided into 10 hour modules. Each level is 200 hours (20 modules) except for Level 6 which is the most advanced. It doesn’t have a set number of hours because there is no upper limit to language learning. After all, even native speakers can spend a lifetime learning their language skills. New participants will be reached by e-mail to schedule an appointment in order to complete a placement test. It is used to check your oral abilities in the following categories:
- Ease of communication and fluency
- Pronunciation
- Listening comprehension
- General vocabulary and idioms
- Professional vocabulary
- Grammar
- Verb tenses
The objective is to identify each candidate’s level by determining the average proficiency level in each of the categories listed above.
Levels
It takes 200 hours to complete a level. Each hour of assigned homework is worth 30 minutes of class time.
| PHASE | NOMBRE D'HEURES | NIVEAU |
|---|---|---|
| Débutant | 200 | 1 |
| Pré-intermédiaire | 200 | 2 |
| Intermédiaire | 200 | 3 |
| Intermédiaire fort | 200 | 4 |
| Avancé | 200 | 5 |
| Perfectionnement | Indéterminé | 6 |
Homework
We assign homework to learners to help them maintain and develop their language skills. We try to make it as dynamic and interactive as possible.
For example, participants can do specific online activities in the self-study area of our website, www.lazaf.ca. In our oral conversation classes, homework may take the form of listening exercises to improve comprehension. It may also focus on vocabulary development, such as idiomatic expressions or professional vocabulary. Participants can sometimes be asked to find and summarize newspaper articles.
This type of activity allows participants to practice many skills (vocabulary, summarizing using appropriate connectors and verb tenses, and pronunciation). The trainer may ask participants to listen to news programmes or popular television shows and describe characters while the others guess who the personality is. We sometimes assign oral presentations and grammar activities from the workbook to reinforce certain grammar points or verb tenses.
In writing classes, the exercises are similar, except that participants will be asked to produce written summaries or written administrative documents such as emails or letters, depending on their level.
Our programme
Oral Interaction and writing
This method can be used three different ways:
- Oral Interaction and writing (50/50)
- Oral interaction
- Writing
Although it is possible to focus on oral interaction or on writing, this should not mean neglecting the other skills. Our method incorporates the four skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. These skills are interdependent and should not be considered separately. For example, reading and writing exercises can help reinforce vocabulary needed for speaking.
Conversely, knowledge of phonetics (listening and pronunciation) is indispensable for good spelling. It is a question of emphasis. Depending on the learning objectives, it is possible to choose more oral or writing activities.
Typical Class Structure for an Oral Class
1. Free Conversation
(Approximately 20% of class time)
- Goal: warm up; develop spontaneity, good flow, and ease.
- Activities carried in an informal and relaxed way. Minimal corrections. Discussion of current events (Who? What? Where? Why?), questions and answers on given topics.
2. Daily Goals
(Approximately 5% of class time)
- Goal: discuss the lesson plan.
- Discuss the planned activities, as well as the main objective and estimated duration of each activity.
3. Timeline
(Approximately 10% of class time)
- Goal: acquire automatic conjugation reflexes.
- Understand the basic use of verb tenses and do mechanization exercises in conjugation.
4. Improvement Work
(Approximately 25% of class time)
- Goal: more precise use of language, study and practice specific structures, sounds, and terms.
- Activities (mainly oral) include: grammar exercises, working with magazine or newspaper articles, working with audio or video recordings, creating vocabulary lists and related exercises, exercises on pronunciation and stress, etc.
5. Practice and Integration
(Approximately 35% of class time)
- Goal: practice and integrate new skills in realistic situations (giving someone directions, describing your job, supporting an opinion, etc.).
- Activities include: role-playing; interviews and dialogues; oral presentations; debates; recorded conversations on specific topics; educational games.
6. Review and Evaluation
(Approximately 5% of class time)
- Goal: discuss progress made.
- Review of the course and the programme in general: have the objectives been achieved? Are the activities enjoyable and useful? Do you have any particular problems or preferences?
Typical Class Structure for an Administrative Writing Class
1. Free Conversation
(Approximately 10% of class time)
- Goal: warm up.
- Activities carried in an informal and relaxed way. Minimal corrections. Discussion of current events (Who? What? Where? Why?), questions and answers on given topics.
2. Daily Goals
(Approximately 5% of class time)
- Goal: discuss the lesson plan.
- Discuss the planned activities, as well as the main objective and estimated duration of each activity.
3. Timeline
(Approximately 10% of class time)
- Goal: acquire automatic conjugation reflexes.
- Understand the basic use of verb tenses and do mechanization exercises in conjugation.
4. Improvement Work
(Approximately 30% of class time)
- Goal: be more precise when using language, study and practice the rules related to various aspects of writing (grammar, vocabulary, expressions, structures, etc.).
- Activities include: exercises from textbooks, analysis of various aspects of documents used in the workplace (e.g., material presentation and structure), analysis of specific points in news articles (e.g., verbs), established rules and formulas for various types of documents (e.g., memos), vocabulary lists and related exercises, spelling exercises (e.g., dictations), and educational games (e.g., Boogle).
5. Practice and Integration
(Approximately 40% of the course duration)
- Objective: Write various types of documents in order to practice and integrate new skills.
- Activities include: keeping a logbook, free writing on a given theme, writing letters, memos and emails, taking notes (meetings, audio or video tape, written documents, etc.)
6. Assessment and evaluation
(Approximately 5% of the course duration)
- Objective: To discuss progress.
- Assessment of the course and the programme in general: Are the objectives achieved? Are the activities enjoyable and useful? Do you have any particular problems or preferences?
Cancellation Policy
Training Cancellation — Free Cancellation Policy
Once the training has begun, a two-week period is allowed to cancel the language training session at no cost. After this period, all parties involved will be required to pay the training fees until the end of the session. This policy does not apply to individual courses.
Course Cancellation – Free Cancellation Policy
When a course is cancelled by all participants, whether in a group setting or individual training setting, and the client has notified the Centre at 514-287-7433 or by email at reception@centrecaron.ca one business day in advance between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, the client will not be required to pay for the hours of instruction not provided.
