Certification

The Centre has evolved a highly effective system of checking the students’ individual progress by offering tests throughout the course. The findings are used to deal with either individual or group learning problems, as well as indicators of problem areas in language acquisition. At the end of each course the students take a final test based on the course-book they finished, and only according to the results The ELC issues two kinds of certificates: one of attendance and the other of successful completion of the course.

Level Descriptors

The student achievement at different levels aims at the following language skills:

Starter – one gets used to English spelling, reading rules, pronunciation and basic grammatical structures in a very limited language context.

Elementary – one gains the basic ability to communicate in everyday situations, to convey simple messages in social and travel contexts.

Pre-Intermediate – one is able to successfully participate in short conversations on familiar topics and understand relatively simple written and spoken texts related to various everyday situations.

Intermediate – one is fairly confident to participate and sustain conversations on most familiar topics and able to produce and understand written and spoken texts in socially diverse situations.

Upper-Intermediate – one is able to communicate effectively in most language situations, to understand and produce written and spoken texts in general and specialised areas.

Advanced – one is able to speak fluently in formal and informal situations, to produce texts of various registers appropriate for a given language context and has an in-depth knowledge of the language enabling one to appreciate fiction, popular and academic literature in English.