1993: Born to transform the corporate language training industry
Our founder, Paule Grenier, was already teaching Bell Canada employees English as a second language in the Montreal office when they decided to close the onsite language school. Initially collaborating with three other English teachers, we formed a small company called: Montreal English Language Teachers (MELT). Coinciding with the Quebec government creating a program that encouraged corporate training, we quickly realized we had to hire teachers, move away from a home office to a proper downtown location, and switch over to our French name and acronym: les Enseignants de langue anglaise de Montreal (ELAM).
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Pre-employment language testing offers many benefits to companies who wish to hire candidates based on their language skills and proficiency. This type of testing provides employers with an accurate assessment of a potential employee’s ability to communicate in the workplace and is becoming increasingly popular among businesses looking for skilled employees. Let’s take a closer look at why pre-employment language testing is so important
With the rapid advancements in technology, language learning trends are constantly changing. As we look ahead to 2023, there are key trends to keep in mind regarding language learning. Whether you’re a training manager or business owner looking to upskill your workforce, human resources or talent acquisition team who needs to hire the right personnel, or an individual interested in improving their language skills, this blog post will provide insights into what language learning looks like now and what we can expect over the next few years.
This week, ELAM launched its annual 12 Days of Donating to various community, environmental, and health organisations for the third year in a row. Some of these organisations benefit from monthly donations, while others are supported by our annual campaign. Staff and clients make suggestions, and we all have very good reasons for choosing our causes.
As a company in an ever-changing marketplace, you’re always looking for ways to streamline recruitment. Language skills are important in many jobs, and it’s important to ensure that candidates have the right spoken and written language skills. Providing organizations and candidates with a balanced, fair, and comfortable assessment process has been the driving force behind our language assessment services since 2001. We collaborate with our talent acquisition partners to ensure a stress-free and efficient overall experience.
Effective communication at work is essential to ensuring that the business and its employees can reach their goals and build good relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Cross-cultural communication relies heavily on language. It affects every part of a multinational company and gives business leaders access to many new opportunities.
As modern technology makes global business more accessible, knowing various languages will continue to be advantageous. Language differences can significantly affect how well your international business does and learning new languages can help your company enter new markets. Consequently, what are the business advantages of learning a new language?
Are you considering studying Spanish? If so, you have made an excellent decision, particularly in terms of your professional prospects.
The advantage of studying Spanish is that it will help you in almost any job or position. Here are six ways learning Spanish can help your profession, whether you work in customer service, accounting, or a HR manager
The COVID-19 pandemic completely altered ELAM’s methods of operation in 2020 and 2021. In the latter part of 2020, the Pew Research Center reported that approximately 71% of employed adults worked from home, up from just 20% before the outbreak. As of 2022, some regions of the world are gradually returning to normalcy, but many businesses are closing their doors. They have realized how cost-effective remote business management can be while assuring the staff’s work is up to par!
ELAM is thrilled to announce that, for the second year in a row, we have been selected as a finalist for the Top Supplier as part of WBE Canada’s 2022 Excellence Awards!
There are numerous free language iPhone and Android applications available.
Many of these apps cannot take you all the way to fluency, but they can get you off to an excellent start.
Try out these 10 free language-learning applications!