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Callan method at the Callan School of London 

Official surveys have demonstrated that with the classical teaching methods of the English language the results are ineffective, antiquated, boring and slow to achieve. If you compare the prices of some Schools of English in your own country, you will notice that they are, at least, double in amount in respect to those offered by the Callan School. The reason for this may be found in the poor quality of teaching a normal school is often offering you, providing little return for high prices. Further, these schools also have the aggravating circumstance to employ no native English teachers.


More and more companies are nowadays requiring employers to posses the English language certification by a Cambridge examination. Today the English language is the communication language of our time, useful in many cases, a must in others, above all within the world of business and trade. Learning a language, especially for a beginner, is best accomplished in the country where it is spoken and it is likely that fluency would take longer than months, or even years to be achieved. For instance, many of the Callan School customers are professionals who have only weeks on hand. As a matter of fact, the secret of learning a language is the repetition of it: repeating without thinking.


Learning a language the best way requires a sort of conditioned reflex. Speaking a language is like playing piano or typewriting on the computer; there is an intrinsic need to develop a rapid reflex without thinking. For instance, in order to learn a language, experiences show that one must learn to speak and to understand without thinking. A linguistic reflex hence starts from the mouth not instead of from the brain as the pianist does not have the time to think where to put his finger. A rapid reflex can be obtained only by mechanical repetition.


As language learning is a question of developing quick reflexes, how else can this be done than by a system of stimulus and response? The same psychologist went on to offer an exaggerated example by adding that one could teach a monkey to play the piano given such techniques. In other words the monkey, like a pianist, a typist or a language student; is learning to perform a trick, and tricks are best learned through practice and through a system of stimulus and response, which in the case of the Callan Method means quick-fire questions and answers.The difference between the monkey and the pianist, typist and language student, however, is that the monkey cannot do much with the trick he has learned; whereas the pianist, typist and language student can. For them the trick is a means to an end. For the monkey it is an end in itself.

The average student usually takes 350 hours to obtain a diploma of English with the Cambridge First Certificate, whereas the same needs only 200 hours with the Callan Method. Further, 95% of the students using the Callan Method are recorded to have succeeded in the examination against the 70% of the normal schools of English which are said to be slow and boring as they are still based on the classical teaching of Victorian grammar.


Mr. Callan has invented a method called Direct Method. As stated above, its main advantage is the rapidity of learning. Children learn the language with a precise method, which is translated in the Callan method by the formulation from the teacher of quick-fire questions to which the students in turn must give a quick answer, in an instinctive manner, pronouncing the same words of the teacher.


Again, as stated above, the Callan School boasts a percentage of students promoted to the Cambridge First Certificate and to the various examinations of English at University level of 95% against a poor 70% at the average international level. Further, in the rare event of unsuccessful results in the examination, the Callan School is the only school worldwide to guarantee free lessons until the achievement of the certificate.

 

 

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