INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES
Vision for Excellence International University is an international institution that holds its worldwide reach and impact in high regard. VEIU strives to provide every student with an international experience through its network of partnerships with universities around the world.
The International School of languages is part of VEIU’s global mission. ISL provides education courses that develop language, culture, and critical thinking skills.
The VEIU International School of Languages is committed to promoting and preserving indigenous and less commonly taught languages while also providing critical, specialized courses in widely studied languages. The Center is an international community of language educators and learners, which offers high-quality, innovative language-learning opportunities through online and in-person experiential courses for college credit. We believe that linguistic and cultural diversity is crucial to our shared global future. VEIU ISL seeks to engage university students, high school students, and adult learners around the world in meaningful language study rooted in social justice and intercultural understanding.
MISSION
- Train educators to be aware of international contexts, influences, and applications.
- Instill sensitivity to cross-cultural and diversity issues.
- Help Center has department resources that provide the students with reinforcement and tutorial services
- Offer programs that enable students to use their language and culture skills effectively in their careers.
- Promote global cultural awareness through curricular, co-curricular, and international opportunities via language organizations, study abroad trips, international scholarship, etc.
- Serve as a community resource center on English, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese and Arabic as a Second Language as well as other languages and cultures.
- Act as a research center for scholars, providing appropriate technologies, systems, and resources for the study of foreign cultures and languages.
- Serve as a liaison for community organizations, government entities, and corporate partners on cultural and language issues.
- Champion international cooperation and education through local, national, and international community outreach.
PROGRAMS BENEFITS
Foreign Languages fluency opens lots of new opportunities: interesting travels, new acquaintances, prestigious jobs, internships at a dream company, moving to another country and many others. In a globalized world, where mobility is facilitated, learning a language is a wonderful benefit. Not only does it help when traveling, it is also a great advantage for studying in general and for career prospects abroad. Acquiring a second language enables us to develop various mental abilities at all ages.
Here are the 12 amazing advantages of international languages learning
Increase Creativity
Enhances the ability to multi-task
Improves analytical skills
Sharpens the mind
Increases networking skills
Creates job security
Increase Creativity
While the two are not often paired, language learning can also increase one’s creativity. Learning how to string new words together to communicate effectively requires you to use your brain in an analogous way as when you form creative thoughts. For instance, language learning requires discovering new ways of expressing ideas and feelings.
A foreign language is a whole new intricate system of rules, structures, and lexis. Learning a new language means your brain has to cope with complexity as it makes sense of and absorbs new patterns. As our brains work out the meaning, endeavoring to communicate, we develop key learning skills such as cognitive thinking and problem-solving. Highly developed critical thinking skills are a significant benefit both personally and professionally.
Enhances the ability to multi-task
Multi-tasking is very stressful for those who are not used to it or don’t do it well. According to a study from the Pennsylvania State University, people who are multilingual and proficient at slipping from one language system to another are practiced at this very demanding work for the brain. People who have developed the ability to think in different languages and move from one to the other become much better multi-taskers, reducing stress levels.
Improves analytical skills
Along these same lines, mastering a new language will also improve your analytical skills. Those who speak more than one language have the ability to process information in a more logical fashion. For instance, rather than making decisions based on emotion, those who had to consider decisions in a foreign language made wiser decisions based on analytical reasoning. This may also explain why bilingual students tend to score better than their peers on academic tests.
Sharpens the mind
A study from Vision for Excellence International University revealed that multilingual people are better at observing their surroundings. They easily spot anything that is irrelevant or deceptive. They’re also better at spotting misleading information. The study was conducted comparing multilingual and monolingual subjects and the former notably had the edge.
Increases networking skills
Opening up to a culture allows you to be more flexible and appreciative of other people’s opinions and actions. As a result, if you are multilingual, you have the advantage of seeing the world from different viewpoints, enhancing your ability to communicate in today’s globally connected world.
Creates job security
In addition to academic success, VEIU studies have revealed that learning multiple languages creates job security. As the workplace becomes global, it is imperative that employees do what it takes to hold on to their jobs. Those individuals who can speak other languages are already well ahead of their competitors in the workplace.
Enhances decision making
The first language is improved
Simplifies foreign communication
Improves performance in other academic areas
You will have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence
Develops Global Relations
Enhances decision making
Decision making according to a study from the University of Chicago, decision-making ability becomes an easier process for multilingual people. Aside from the rules and vocabulary that go with learning a foreign language, there are nuances and regional expressions that a student of language frequently judges for appropriateness and hidden meanings. Multilinguals are more confident in their decision-making choices as a result of practice, practice, practice!
The first language is improved
Learning a new language makes you more conscious of the nuts and bolts of your own language. Terms such as vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, comprehension, idioms and sentence structure become everyday phrases, whereas your own language is probably absorbed more intuitively. Learning a new language also makes you a better listener as you are used to having to interpret meaning and judge nuances.
Simplifies foreign communication
Whether you are traveling abroad or doing business with someone abroad over the phone, the ability to communicate is essential. When you learn to speak another language, communication becomes easier. As you travel, you will be able to find out information yourself rather than rely on translators. This will help you make wise decisions.
Improves performance in other academic areas
As a result of higher studies, studies show that the benefits of learning a new language include higher scores on standardized exams in math, reading comprehension and vocabulary by multilingual students compared to the scores of monolingual students. Children may ask why they have to learn this language, but parents and teachers know better! Language skills boost your ability to do well in problem-solving tasks across the board, a fact recognized through compulsory foreign language learning curriculum in schools.
You will have higher verbal and non-verbal intelligence
In 1962, Peal and Lambert published a study where they found that people who are at least conversationally fluent in more than one language consistently beat monolinguals on tests of verbal and nonverbal intelligence.Bilinguals showed significant advantage especially in non-verbal tests that required more mental flexibility.
Develops Global Relations
Finally, one of the most important reasons to learn multiple languages is to develop global relationships. Rather than living in a bubble where everyone lives in the same place and speaks the same language, those who are multilingual can form relationships with people across the globe. Language barriers are broken, and friendships are made. Plus, global relationships are imperative for global awareness and global thinking. When you learn another language, your worldview changes for the better.
Teaching methodology
The Internet and widespread adoption of advanced technologies have led to new online-education and instruction, both in academic and business sense, providing unique alternatives for reaching larger public. In academic sense, universities now offer a possibility of distance learning by means of online teaching, whereby online trainings become valuable in business sense in relation to variables: geographical distance and time.
Bernard, Abrami, Borokhovski, et al. (2004, p. 388, see – Ingi Runar Edvardsson and Gudmundur Kristjan Oskarsson 2008, p. 2) define distance education through synthesis of definitions such as:
– Semi-permanent separation (place and/or time) of student and instructor during the planning of learning event
– Presence of planned and organized service of support to students and final recognition of course graduation by foreign educational organization
– Presence of two aspects of media to encourage dialogue and interaction between students and instructors, as well as among students themselves.
From the very beginnings, distance education can be followed through five different levels or generations. Bearing in mind that every generation hasn’t been replaced by the next, but they were collected and persisted in the new versions. The five generations are the following:
1. Corresponding educationwhich is based on press and postal delivery.
2. Multimedial model which combines the press, audio-tapes, video-tapes and CDs; Students were buying materials, then they read it and completed all the activities (with support and feedback) alone. For example, learning of foreign language by listening to video-tapes in combination with the workbook.
3. Tele-learning model – it’s the model of synchronous communications using available technologies, such as video-conferences in order to provide educational programs.
4. Flexible learning model –which uses interactive medium by means of internet; this includes the communication through computers.
5. The current fifth generation is so called the Intelligent flexible learning model– main difference between this and fourth generation includes „access to institutional processes and resources… [which provides] adjustable electronic interface by which students, staff and others can interact with a university (Taylor, 2001, p.10).
Offered Certificates
Based on the accreditation of Vision for Excellence International University as well as working in partnership with International Institute of Influencers Asia, VEIU School of languages offers:
1. Certified Certificates for Teachers,
2. Certificate of completion,
3. Diploma of languages,
4. International Diploma in Teachings
5. Bachelor of languages.
The duration of languages depends on the level, language, and how committed the learner is to the program. However following are some of the secrets from different Learners :
a. Put in your head that learning a language is easy, you just need time and patience, that’s all
b. You can absolutely become as fluent as a Native.
c. Don’t listen to anyone telling you that you can’t, most people around you don’t speak more than one language and have some fixed mindset about language learning which prevent them from being open to learning and improving. You are different. You know you can become VERY good if you just trust and do what I will tell you right after.
d. Don’t rely on professors to teach you. A language is a tool of communication. It has to come from you and you have to be proactive to apply what you learn and improve fast,
e. Find the best book to learn the language you target. Just one book is enough. Don’t fall into the “Application” mania. An application or a dictionary is just a tool, a “helper”.
f. Every day, take 30 min to read that book until you finish the book. Go slowly, do all the exercises.
g. When you have some very basics and you know few phrases, find some friend speaking the language and go practice what you learn. Don’t be afraid to fail or to speak incorrectly, no one will laugh about you. Everyone speaks incorrectly before speaking correctly. Just think about babies: If a baby was waiting to have the perfect grammar to start speaking, he would never say a word. Instead, use the “ Fail Fast Forward” approach. Fail quickly, then listen to the correction. Ask others to correct you. Then improve.
h. When you understand few phrases and you feel you are okay to present yourself, start to watch dramas and series in the language you target. My advice is to watch dramas with subtitles in the language of the country language, NOT yours. The purpose is to listen. when you don’t understand, pause and search in the dictionary. make lists of words. If you don’t understand 100%, that’s okay. Try to understand the gestures and you will see that after some time, you will start to understand more and more.
i. Repeat all those steps: Find more books, dramas, friends.
Go to the country and study there. Speak with locals, be curious about the culture.
With this method, you will be fluent in less than 1 year.