I’ve learned so much from my mistakes 
I really need to make a few more

Noticing, self-awareness and self-correction

Language learning is a dynamic process reliant on the noticing and self-correcting of our mistakes. Good teaching facilitates such noticing and self-reflection.

Learning follows a spiral, going over the same ground at different levels

As learners the entry point to a language new to us is as an infant or, perhaps, as an adult. But whenever we begin learning our own particular way of putting a language together jumps up and down, and around the four levels laid out below. The process of learning does not follow a line from the bottom-up or straight down from the top.

Language learning takes place at four different levels

Language works at four different levels. These four levels always work together. We can picture these four levels like Russian dolls nested together.

In language the bottom level of sounds and shapes becomes the level of noun and verb patterns.
In turn nouns and verbs are used in conversations and writing. And in conversation and writing we embody our social and cultural interests and express the patterns of meaning of our culture.

Classroom or workshop outside?

As good teachers our aim is to speed up language acquisition. But learning a language always takes places within a particular cultural situation, often in modern societies an ‘academic’ sub-culture, that can slow learning down. The learner and the ‘tutor’, too, have their own social interests. Good teaching works within these limits to bridge the gaps that keep occurring between people speaking different languages and from different cultures.

Classroom or workshop inside?

The Workshop is the place for you to become a fluent speaker of conversational English, to learn how to produce professional presentations for an English audience, or improve your academic writing at a UK university.
 
Tuition is friendly, tailored to your personal learning goals, and always takes place in small groups.

The Workshop is lead by Peter Corbishley of “eregen services and learning CIC” a not for profit social enterprise company also specialising in research and the support of small organisations, including businesses.