Critical Factors for Speaking Success

 SpeakEnglishGym : Benefits & Results

Ordinary Training Programs: Shortcomings & Consequences

Critical Success Factor 1:

The ability to quickly understand the inner meaning of the question as it is being asked.

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

SpeakEnglishGym understands that in order achieve a good score you need to use simple, compound, and compound-complex sentences; use effective coordination and subordination of ideas to express complete thoughts and deliver them effectively. SpeakEnglishGym helps you achieve this in the easiest way.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

Thanks to Spoken English Simulator, where you need to understand the questions and respond to them as in the case of real IELTS style speaking test, you will be able to understand the question quickly and will be ready to answer immediately.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 98% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they could understand questions and plan an answer within few seconds! They got the clear idea of what is required for the answer.

2. 99% of students say, their all anxieties disappeared when they answered the first question of the speaking test.

3. 95% of candidates say, they enjoyed the cue-card session. 68% of the candidates didn’t even think it was necessary to write notes for the monologue.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

In their attempt to ‘cover’ the ‘portion’ of the syllabus within the promised time, they fail to build quick responding skills without grammatical errors.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

Most candidates at these centres complain that they go blank when they are supposed to answer. The root cause is that they could not understand the questions well, and proactively prepare their minds to predict important ideas and words.

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

91% of students, who used the primitive methods of Ordinary training centres come out of the IELTS Speaking tests complaining that,

1. They could not answer correctly because they could not understand the question.

2. They could not formulate an answer. They were caught in the web thinking about which grammar structure to use.

3. They found it difficult to keep-up with the information provided by the examiner.

Critical Success Factor 2:

The ability to formulate apt answers with bright ideas, organize the sequence of presentation and plan pauses:

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

SpeakEnglishGym helps students formulate adroit judgments about questions asked. They deliver focused and coherent answers of their own that convey clear and distinct perspectives and solid reasoning. They also use gestures, tone, and vocabulary tailored to the environment and purpose.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

SpeakEnglishGym works on content-based instruction (CBI) methodology and candidates have imbibed great ideas. This ensures that candidate chooses logical patterns of organization (e.g., chronological, topical, cause and effect) to deliver an interesting, pointed answer.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 97% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they were ready with the answer by the time the questions were asked. They never felt anxiety or tension, they never exhibited any nuances. 85% of candidates said, they received non-verbal appreciation, or thumbs up from their examiners.

2. 99% of candidates say, they could answer all the questions without grammatical errors or inaccurate word selections.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

A student from one of this training centres commented, “Telling frankly. I have trouble catching the actual sounds of this foreign language.” For most students here, English remains a foreign language because they never get opportunity to get friendlier with English. They develop a ‘fear psychosis’ towards English listening.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

Confidence and ‘presence of mind’ are key factors in the IELTS speaking test-to formulate answers while listening to the questions, knowing that it is not a good idea to repeat the question. Most candidates from these training centres fumble miserably because they don’t have ample practicing opportunity like SpeakEnglishGym.

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

93% of students, who followed ordinary methods complain that,

1. They find it difficult to comprehend the question. They end up parroting questions multiple times.

2. They find it difficult to meet coherence requirements as their answer completely fails to address the question.

3. They could not retain concentration during the long speaking sessions.

Critical Success Factor 3:

The ability to speak in a way that engage the interest of the listener and state a clear purpose.

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

SpeakEnglishGym helps candidates to open their talk with interesting quotes. Then, it helps to support all statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and specific examples. The candidates are also well versed to use interesting opening sentences and topic sentences.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

SpeakEnglishGym programs are studded with new information and result-oriented, knowledge nuggets. SpeakEnglishGym makes up for the time lost in not reading English novels and watching English movies earlier in life. SpeakEnglishGym programs make accurate predictions easier. Note: Ability to predict come with such experiences.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 94% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they could formulate talks that are interesting to listen - irrespective of the speaking module topics.  

2. 96% of candidates say, they were alert to deliver the right information because their minds were prepared with right kind of general information.

3. 96% of students say, SpeakEnglishGym helped them develop a much wider knowledge about the world; it helped them practice making predictions. This kind of anticipation skill helps them listen to longer speeches and lectures and to deliver similar presentations when needed.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

Students at Ordinary Training centres don’t have the privilege to attend realistic speaking interactive sessions. They develop anxiety towards speaking sessions and build an aversion.

It is crucial to develop skills to listen and respond through the test. This ability comes only through practice.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

Most candidates who follow conventional methods complain that they find it difficult to sit through the session with full attention and concentration.  They fail to clearly understand the main idea, underlying meanings, and feelings.

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

95% of students, who followed ordinary methods complain that,

1. They find it difficult to concentrate and repeat the sentence, “I don’t understand”.

2. When they try to focus, they miss key ideas, those are not directly said, mentioned only once, or described in detail.

3. Many students complain, “I can understand people if they talk slowly and clearly; I can’t understand fast, natural, native-sounding speech.”

4. 98% of students fail to logically predict the flow, and therefore not able to proactively prepare their mind to capture the data when it is said.

Critical Success Factor 4:

The ability to verbally present statistics, data, opinions, arguments etc without grammatical errors.

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

1. SpeakEnglishGym ensures that the candidate identify, notice, understand, and analyse the questions at the shortest - especially when they are faced with cue-cards. It also ensures that their talk has appropriate organization; consistent point of view; and transitions between scenes or ideas.

2. Each theme of SpeakEnglishGym English enhancement program has over 22,000 interesting sentences and over 300 interactive exercises. No wonder, sentence structure selection, choosing the appropriate word etc become automatic and natural to you.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

Through World’s No.1 Content-based Instruction methodology, SpeakEnglishGym helps use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate modifiers, and the active rather than the passive voice.

SpeakEnglishGym helps revise speaking style to improve organization and word choice after checking the logic of the ideas and the precision of the vocabulary.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 96% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they could understand the general idea of what was being asked to do. Therefore they could accurately understand the specific information in the task.  

2. 95% of candidates say, they could present the specific information from the cue-cards and develop the the answer considering the correct grammar structure.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

Students from ordinary training centres consider ‘structured speaking’ is a difficult task. Why? Student’s grammatical knowledge is as important as their ability to control the flow of response. Why? Because answers should be grammatically correct within the given sentences.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

Candidates fail to organize information to achieve particular purposes by matching the message, vocabulary, voice modulation, expression, and tone to the audience and purpose.

Most candidates are not able to prepare a speech outline based upon a chosen pattern of organization, which generally includes an introduction; transitions, previews, and summaries; a logically developed body; and an effective conclusion.

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

94% of students, who followed ordinary methods complain that,

1. Organize information to achieve particular purposes and to appeal to the background and interests of the audience.

2. 91% of candidates failed to arrange supporting details, reasons, descriptions, and examples effectively and persuasively in relation to the audience.

3. 93% of candidates say, they get tensed in delivering answers in their own words and make mistakes in usage, selection of words and grammar.

Critical Success Factor 5:

The ability to express cause and effect & Comparison and contrast in speaking.

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

SpeakEnglishGym, with its CBI methodology, provides maximum ideas to write expository compositions (e.g., description, explanation, comparison and contrast, problem and solution).

It helps candidates state the purpose, explain the situation, follow an organizational pattern appropriate to the type of composition, and offer persuasive evidence to validate arguments and conclusions as needed.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

Students combine the rhetorical strategies of narration, exposition, persuasion, and description to produce two minutes uninterrupted, interesting talk without grammatical errors.

SpeakEnglishGym students benefit from attempting to hundreds of time-bound questions. They can attempt these questions and receive immediate feedback any number of times.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 98% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they could attend all question-types with clear understanding and confidence.

2. 97% of candidates say, even the two-way discussions on strange topics were a cakewalk for them.

3. 95% of students say, SpeakEnglishGym helped them develop the key skills of not only speaking but all strands of language.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

Students at Ordinary Training centres suffer because they are exposed to very limited number of real-time speaking tests. The tests available on Internet are not time bound, therefore the candidates do not get the experience of attending a realistic test by a strange person, under time pressure.

Many training centres make candidates to memorise answers.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

Students complain by saying, “I have to understand every word; if I miss something, I feel I am failing and get worried and stressed. Then I can’t formulate answers.”

Other say, “I find it difficult to ‘keep up’ with all the information I am getting, and cannot think ahead or predict.”

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

93% of students, who attended speaking test said,

1. They find it difficult to reproduced the memorised answers.

2. They find it difficult to quickly retrieve facts, figures and ideas and fumble with the answering methods.

3. They could not retain concentration while switching from one question types to another.

Critical Success Factor 6:

The ability to think and speak simultaneously.

SpeakEnglishGym-Uniqueness:

Speaking is a two-way process. Always questions are short and answers are long. No one can start speaking after planning all the sentences and structures before hand. Still they have to start speaking. Therefore, SpeakEnglishGym is the only methodology available that trains the students to think and speak simultaneously.

SpeakEnglishGym-Benefits:

SpeakEnglishGym students quickly internalise the skills to deliver answers clearly without grammatical and pronunciation errors.

SpeakEnglishGym candidates can write narrative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive texts on almost any topic. They are also developed the skills to naturally write answers without grammar mistakes.

SpeakEnglishGym-Results:

1. 98% of SpeakEnglishGym students say, they could give equal importance to all sections because they were confident of their abilities, were relaxed and were in complete control.  

2. 95% of candidates say, they could manage the time properly to complete all answers.

3. 94% of candidates said they even got the extra time to ensure that the answers are grammatically correct and didn’t prolong the answers beyond the time limit.

Ordinary Training Programs-Shortcomings:

Students from ordinary training centres complain that they could not transfer all the answers clearly, without grammar mistakes, without spelling errors.

Ordinary programs are not able to provide enough number of time-bound realistic tests to overcome this shortcoming.

Ordinary Training Programs-Consequences:

They fumble with the answers as they accumulate doubts, and uncertainties till the end. They are not successful in writing down the all answers as they listen to the audio.

Ordinary Training Programs-Results:

95% of students, who followed ordinary methods complain that,

1. As the end of the test nears, that is, when they reach section-4, they have reached their peak of frustrations.

2. Frustration reaches its peak when they have to transfer all the answers to the answer sheet.

3. 93% of candidates say, they could not transfer all the answers clearly, without grammar mistakes, without spelling errors.