Callan Method

The method to learn English in three steps

Callan Method's first step: listening and speaking in English

This is the first contact with the method. In this phase, the professor will help you build the answers as well as suggest some vocabulary, overcoming the first difficulties.

In the next classes the thre steps start combining in order to get a global training on the different learning areas of a language.

The following represent the keys on which the first step is based:

• Guided conversation:

Being a conversational method where students are encouraged to speak English since the first day, the professor-student dialogue is based on question-answer guided conversations. This patterns include more answer freedom as soon as students increase their vocabulary and work on their grammar.

• Avoid translations:

When incorporating new concepts, the professor starts with their pronunctiation, explains the meaning of the words and then puts them into the context of the questions, being the phonetics and the different uses of the words really clear for the students. This way, words can be learnt without being translated or written, which reduces confusion with similar terms in their own language and helps having a correct pronunctiation.

• Speed and fluency:

Class speed increases as the students acquire fluency because it helps keeping concentration during the whole class and imitates the speed of a real conversation. This is reinforced by the alternation of teachers, coming from different English speaking areas, so that students get used to different accents and intonations.