The benefits of the formula are consistent

Language courses are the winners of the recent conversion of e-learning companies and a myriad of companies offer content. These are mostly English classes, upgrade, instead of learning, but there are also courses of Spanish or German, or even rare languages such as Chinese. A phenomenon doped by the individual right to training (DIF), which allows any employee to benefit from 20 hours of training per year. Another advantage, flexibility of schedules, that the "student" adapts to go its own way, because it can work for him. Thus, a study in December 2005 by Télélangue, 30 of respondents reported their training of the DIF out of working time, for example the morning or evening, or even Saturday.

The formula the more prized by the companies is a 20 to 30 hours, so consistent with the DIF, over a few weeks. With a rise of "blended e-learning", a learned mixture of e-learning courses, course phone, and sometimes a few courses in the classroom. In all cases, the presence of a teacher playing the role of guardian is essential to guide the student. "Professor maintains the motivation, particularly for courses exclusively in step by step," stresses Philippe Lagrace, Director of marketing of Auralog.

"Training course".

Specifically, the student can access to a "training course" on the Internet with a password. As a first step, "he was auto-évalue with a few exercises on the Internet, to determine its level, its weak points, vocabulary register he wants to study in his profession..." ", summarizes Laurent Hayat, Director of development of Télélangue.

The student then has access to online exercises, grammar points and vocabulary reminders, or even scenario exercises based on real life. And interactive elements, such as the "virtual language laboratory", that allows to read and pronounce texts, then to listen to on a small software dedicated. There are also professional tools such as a Wizard of writing which, from a presentation type, write professional documents, such as for a negotiation or a telephone interview.

Choice of teachers

This self-training in e-learning are added so courses by phone with a Professor, that we can plan on a platform of online booking. This professor may fly teachings remotely via Internet, for example by giving assignments to be his "pupil". The student can choose successively several teachers, according to their origin, if it wants to work on different accents.

The benefits of the formula are consistent. Already, "courses are stored on a database, and are searchable by the student, but by his new trainer, which is where he is," says Laurent Hayat. In addition, "on the software training, skills are disappearing as learning exercises, and step by step tool known gaps in the student", summarizes Laurent Hayat.

One question remains: how officially validate these gains, while the issuance of a certificate or a diploma such as the TOEFL (Test of english as a foreign language) is not the skills of these training companies "At the end of training, our students pass the tests to assess their progress, and we provide equivalence grids graduation tests that they can go", said Philippe Lagrace.