Values

World Benchmark

More than 8,500 employers, universities and government bodies around the world recognise Cambridge ESOL qualifications.

Cambridge ESOL offers the world's leading range of certificates for learners and teachers of English - taken by over 3 million people in 130 countries. More than 8,500 employers, universities, and government institutions around the world recognize Cambridge ESOL qualifications.

ESL Online courses help prepare students to take several of the Cambridge Exams. 

• ESL Beginner Course helps prepare students for the Key English Test (KET).  KET is Cambridge ESOL's exam which recognises the ability to deal with everyday written and spoken English at a basic level.
  
  
• ESL Lower and Upper Intermediate Course helps prepare students for the Preliminary English Test (PET).  PET is an exam for people who can use everyday written and spoken English at an intermediate level and covers all four language skills.
  
  
• ESL Advanced Course helps prepare students for entry into an English speaking High School. It covers both the learning outcomes of the British Columbia Year 9 as well as some of the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE).
  
  
• ESL Expert Course helps students prepare for the Cambridge International English Language Testing System (IELTS).  IELTS is increasingly recognized by Educational institutions, employers, and government agencies, as proof of English language skills.

English Level Test

Take a Free English Level Test or try out our Sample Lesson.

ESL Advanced Course helps prepare students for entry into an English speaking High School.

Sensitive to their students

English learning is heightened when there is a combination of learning about a foreign culture and teaching others about your culture.

Many English courses will teach you the language within a Western cultural context. As more and more English speakers stay outside of this context, we have determined at ESL Online to be sensitive to the cultures that we serve. Our cultural modules such as Simplified Chinese Characters, Korean Heroes, and Traditional Chinese Proverbs, hang English words on familiar Asian cultural concepts.

Western cultural scenarios are still interspersed amongst our cartoons and in our Canadian Tips. These highlight discussion points for the student and their Language tutor (Native-English Speaker). Students then have an opportunity to practice their English while learning about Canadian culture or while explaining or relating to their own highlighted cultural concepts. English learning is heightened when there is a combination of learning about a foreign culture and teaching others about your culture.

“A culture-sensitive classroom is that in which the teacher integrates materials, concepts, and values of local culture into pedagogy…”

“Teachers who are sensitive to their students’ unique cultures will be able to relate to the students more easily, leading to more successful instruction and more fulfilled students willing to embrace both a new language and a new culture.”

English Level Test

Take a Free English Level Test or try out our Sample Lesson.

Western cultural scenarios are still interspersed amongst our cartoons and in our Canadian Tips.