What is NET-ENGLISH [1]?

NET-ENGLISH is an educational service provided by the International Language School Group Foundation for students of all levels and all ages, as well as for teacher trainees at the International Teacher Training & Development College. If / when you want to enter, please contact the ILS Group Reception.

Here you will have to fill in a Registration Form and this is where you can arrange payment and all administrative matters. Reception will give you a STUDENT CODE and this is what you will have to use in ALL your communications with us.
What is not NET-ENGLISH?

If / when you browse or surf in the Net, and even if it is all in English, it is not a systematically built up and conscientiously managed course. There you do not have any guidance re your learning and development, you may or may not have any feedback either, and most of what you touch might be simply noise rather than information.

What NET-ENGLISH is not?

NET ENGLISH is not a self-supportive language course, since it badly misses the SPEECH-element in the form of meaningful conversation [please do not forget, that LANGUAGE is primarily SPEECH], and also the SOCIAL-element in the form of enjoyable GROUPWORK [please do not forget either, that the primary aim of language learning is PERSON-TO-PERSON COMMUNICATION].

That is why we offer additional - optional speech-possibilities in groups where you can USE whatever you HAVE LEARNED.

What is NET-ENGLISH [2]?

So, NET-ENGLISH is an InterNet-based course that provides students of English at all levels and all ages, as well as for teacher trainees at the International Teacher Training & Development College with tuition over and above their "normal" learning in groups somewhere, to speed them up.

If / when we go somewhere [and systematic learning is moving towards some goals], we need to know where we are. That is why there is a level-testing at the beginning, in which we are partly interested in what you know [to be able to add to it], and partly we are interested in what you don't know [to be able to help you fill it in].

We just hope that you have an AIM with your learning English [besides, of course, the loose aim of wanting to enjoy yourself in / through English] and the course will help you build a road from where you are now, towards your AIM, towards where you want to be.

After the level-testing you will get audio-cassettes or CDs and you will start your learning at the beginning of the natural order of language skills: with LISTENING [before you can concentrate on the other, to my mind also vitally important, skills of SPEAKING, READING, and WRITING].

You will get the listening-materials on cassette-tapes or on CDs. When you LISTEN to a section or episode, you will have to watch yourself:

At the beginning, the listening material will seem to be too fast, or even impossible to catch. At this stage, you will be behind the speaker(s).

With further repetitive listening, you will be able to catch up with the speaker(s) and follow them relatively effortlessly.

With further repetitive listening, you will be able to pre-tell whatever is coming next before the speaker(s) actually speak it. This is the stage when it is high time for you to do something on the computer.

If / when you reach this stage, you will have to tell us through a different e-mail address you will get from Reception.

The exercises on the computer, also sent to you through an e-mail, will be of many different types. You will receive a very detailed description of each when you reach that stage. You will have to do the exercises, and send through the e-mail the STUDENT-files the study-programs create to your tutor. The STUDENT-files tell us who did what, when, with what kind of mistakes, in how much time, for how many points, etc. Based on your results, your tutor can orientate you, and can give you the optimal materials for your development.

Besides the study-material, you will frequently receive through the e-mail useful InterNet links where you will find further learning and practising possibilities. With these links you will save a great deal of time and it will also reduce your telephone-bill.