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ChinaTim

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22 Dec 2009 4:02 AM
Has any one every tried combing soft skills training with language classes for advanced students. The clients I have are okay with reading and writing, but they really need to focus on speaking skills. Also many of the candidates lack the necessary soft skills to work in a corporate environment. Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Peter Reed User is Offline

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24 Dec 2009 3:12 AM
I think this highly depends on the language skill level of your students. Soft skills are quite broad. I guess you can easily mix content such as body language with learning a language because they are quite related. But, more advanced topics such as emotional intelligence, assertive behaviour and similar topics can be too far from learning a new language or too difficult to explain if you only want to talk in the new language while training them. I guess the topics need to be delivered in conjunction with each other in septate modules much like university courses. So while a person is learning a language they can also learn about communication skills, though this might need to be done in their own mother language. Just some thoughts really, I don't know anyone who has done this.

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