Why To Become Certified English Language Trainer?
In the last few years, thanks to jobs becoming global, the importance of English has increased manifold. It has over the years become an important medium of communication, both at the international and intranational levels. The importance of spoken English is even more, because there are many cases where one knows his subject well, but fails to communicate it properly. The practice of spoken English, therefore, is quite essential. Learning English in a country where it is not a native language, opens a number of opportunities for the individual. In today’s corporate world, the need for effective communication has been recognized and accepted more than the technical knowledge. The language of the corporate world is English. An individual can make strides in the management ladder if he/she can speak English fluently. If your English is poor, even though with brilliant business ideas, you may still find yourself languishing at the bottom of the management ladder. Your productivity will drop over a period of time since you will find difficulty in expressing your brilliant ideas. Those who can speak good English will probably usurp your ideas and get the credit for all the hard work you did to get the idea working.
So there are immense opportunities for English Language trainer to train people in communicative English for different purposes like group discussions, interviews, oral presentations, report writing, writing letters etc.
English language trainers generally handle individuals’ abilities to frame grammatically correct sentences or his lack of vocabulary, fear of speaking to groups of people, and ineffective presentation skills.
Effective communication skills include oral Skills for public speaking, presentations, negotiating, conflict resolutions, knowledge-sharing. It also includes a combination of verbal and non-verbal skills marked with proper and distinct articulation, appropriate pause, and voice modulation. If the medium of communication is English, certain amount of proficiency is needed in it. As English for us is a second language and not our mother tongue, a constant practice at home, followed by language-lab sessions, is the need of the hour. Those institutes which want their students to get placed in MNCs and reputed companies, must give this an urgent thought. It is here that an English Language Trainer has a role to play. Quality job depends as much on knowledge of the respective subject as on good communication skills.
Scan the recruitment advertisements on any job website and you will find that almost every recruiter seeks out candidates who are well versed in spoken and written English. If you are interested in doing well professionally, good knowledge of the English language is not a qualification you can ignore.
While almost all of us have some knowledge of English, the question is to know if this knowledge is fit for the work place. Unfortunately, we find out only too late after we fail a job interview or get overlooked for a promotion.
All tests like IELTS, GMAT and TOEFL required for studying or working abroad need the candidates to have a good command of written and spoken English. The standards abroad are high and if you are considering a future outside India, it is absolutely necessary to test and, if necessary, enhance your English levels.