Language Training: Accent Reduction Program

Why Accent Reduction?

Excellent communication skills are essential in today's competitive business world.

Unclear English pronunciation can:

• Adversely influence advancement and promotion;
• Hamper performance and productivity;
• Be a source of concern and embarrassment;
• Result in misunderstandings, time-consuming repetitions and inaccurate messages;
• Lead to poor relationships among members of your staff.

Typical non-native English speakers with strong foreign accents lose about 25 percent of their time and effectiveness because of unclear speech.

Accent reduction training can help your employees acquire the sounds of American English that will enable American listeners to understand them better.

Accent reduction is a specialization within the profession of Speech-Language Pathology. Speech pathologists are specifically educated to analyze the speech sounds and train clients to modify their speech patterns.

Global LT offers accent reduction training in two formats: an eight-week program or a sixteen-week program that starts with a thorough evaluation by a certified speech-language pathologist (SLP). This evaluation allows the SLP to methodically transcribe and analyze the student's current speech patterns and set up a detailed, customized syllabus.

Global LT's Accent Reduction program will help your employees:

• Identify and produce the sounds of American speech;
• Increase their confidence when speaking;
• Refine their knowledge of American English;
• Pronounce the sounds of the English language at the word, sentence, and conversational levels;
• Develop stress and intonation that resembles the speech of a native speaker