Workplace EnglishVocational ESL classes for your blue collar labor force.

Workplace English Training Course

We deliver workplace English training courses both on-site and virtually to manufacturing and production facilities, warehouse environments, residential management companies for apartment complexes, hotels and other similar type businesses in the hospitality industry, farms, maintenance and repair facilities, and fabrication work

Who is workplace english for?

• Manufacturing and production facilities of all kinds be it for heavy equipment for the oil and gas industry, furniture, trailers, etc.
• Warehouse facilities
• Industrial farms
• Apartment complexes who have maintenance technicians and other support staff needing language support to better serve tenants 
• Hospitality Industry (hotels who have staff needing language support to better serve customers and patrons)
• Any workplace environment where there is a population of blue collar, vocational, or manual labor workers who do not speak English natively and are deficient in their ability to communicate in English effectively.

Where we deliver workplace English courses

We deliver workplace English training in many places across the U.S. Some of the places we have delivered in-person on-site workplace English courses include Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Oregon, New Jersey, Washington state and even a remote site in Arkansas to name a few.  When appropriate, we also offer these vocational English classes virtually through platforms such as Zoom, Google Hangout and Microsoft Teams.

There is in fact, no teaching without learning. One requires the other.

Paulo Freire

Benefits of a workplace English course

These are a few of the highlighted benefits of utilizing our specialized workplace English training program:

Increased Safety of Workers

•  With improved ability to independently interpret written safety protocols and changing operating procedures come improved safety and a reduction of safety incidents.

Improved Productivity

• Improved communication ability in English means more effective interpretation of production related directives from supervisors (bypassing the need for the “bilingual co-worker” attempting to translate for his fellow co-workers) as well as the ability for workers to ask for clarity when something is confusing or quickly report issues that might interrupt production.  

Creating Opportunities for Promotion to Leadership Roles

• Many times, there are incredibly knowledgeable and valuable employees who would normally be targeted for leadership roles but due to their deficiencies with communicating effectively in English, they are unable to be considered.  As they develop and evolve their English communication skills through our on-site workplace ESL program, their improved abilities to communicate in English both verbally and in writing will open previously closed doors to promotion into leadership roles thus enhancing their value to the client. 

Why Choose Us

10 Years of Specialized Experience

• We’ve been designing and running our proprietary specialized workplace ESL programs for over ten years now and we’ve worked with businesses of all sizes ranging from small family run production facilities all the way up to large Fortune 500 manufacturing facilities.  We have hard won knowledge about how to work with these special types of ESL learners in a vocational setting.

Exceptional Teaching Professionals

• Our core informing belief at Premiere Language is that great teachers create great learning experiences.  We have learned from experience that in addition to the need to work with exceptionally skilled ESL teachers, a vocational ESL program requires an ESL teacher that possesses unique qualities that best support the creation of an effective learning environment for vocational ESL students.  These are the specific types of teachers that we assign to our blue collar ESL programs and are huge reason why they have been so successful.  We don’t compromise on this standard of excellence.

Client Specific Approach

• Although there are many overlapping similarities between the client sites our Vocational ESL programs operate on, we also know from experience that each client can have unique concerns that a “one-size-fits-all” approach can’t address.  Every client site has a different operating environment with different jargon and communication needs so we work to incorporate those concerns into the shaping of our approach for each client site we work on. 

Continually Evolving Approach

• Although our workplace ESL program is now well established and mature, it is not static.  It has been in a constant state of evolution over the last ten years as we continually appraise what works and doesn’t work effectively with each program that we’ve run.  With each iteration at a new client site, we seek to make refinements as our understanding of how these unique types of vocational ESL learners acquire language skills.

Scalable Programs

• Whether or not you have 10 or 400 participants, we can scale our program to accommodate any population size.  

Client Roster

Some of our higher profile national and multinational clients we have been delivering on-site language programs to:

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Testimonials

“Above all, Chris and Phillip, our instructor, provided an invaluable tool for our crew when dealing with our clientele – the confidence to communicate effectively in English.”
Casey P.HR Associate, Garden Communities
If language is a barrier for some of your employees, I have no doubt that Premiere Language can put together a plan to fill the gap.”
Jennifer P.Senior HR Manager, Enterprise Products
“The progress we saw in our students was greater than our expectations. We highly recommend Premiere Language for your English instructional needs.”
Kimmi D.HR Associate, Citgo
“Chris has helped us maintain and in some areas build our language program. His dedication and high standards have helped us maintain our dedication to our internal talent.”
Stacy S.Training Director, Tenaris
“Premiere English was great because they took the time to understand the needs of our company and our employees.”
Jeff A.Change Manager, National Oilwell Varco
“The classes were really engaging and helped me to cultivate a richer understanding of English from a current events & cultural perspective.”—
Raul A.CFO, Tenaris
“Chris would always get it done, find a solution, and everyone involved would feel happy with the outcome.  I highly recommend Premiere, and anything else he is involved in.”
Zoe BellESL Teacher
“While teaching for Chris and Premiere I loved waking up each day to go to work knowing that both my clients and the company who contracted me had the same goals and dreams.”
Chelsea B.ESL Teacher
“I’ve always been glad to attend the classes, I found the teachers very well prepared, professional, and punctual.”
Stefano B.Corporate ESL Student
“I learned so much in so little time that I was surprised when we reviewed all the things she (Mary) taught me.”
Jeff B.Corporate Spanish Student
“Premiere Language allowed me the freedom to tailor the course specifically to the unique needs of the student, optimizing student progress.”
Holly H.ESL Teacher
“The courses did an excellent job of reinforcing my existing knowledge of Spanish and introducing new concepts. The biggest help to me was the emphasis on conversational Spanish.”
James D.Corporate Spanish Student
“When I went to México and had to put what I had learned into practice, I found the adjustment period to be surprisingly short and received many compliments on my speaking ability.”
Daniel M.Corporate Spanish Student
“I found the administration and day-to-day management at Premiere English to be very professional and efficient, allowing me to devote more time to the preparation of lesson plans.”
Marena M.ESL Teacher

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