Empower Your Future with Language Skills
English Language Training Program
Unlock new opportunities with our comprehensive English Language Training (ELT) program, tailored for immigrants and refugees seeking to enhance their language skills for employment and integration.
English for Employment & Integration
Our English for Employment program is designed to equip immigrants and refugees with the language skills necessary for the workplace. With a focus on both employment and integration, our classes help participants navigate their new environments effectively.
Through our program, participants gain the ability to communicate confidently in professional settings, enhancing their job prospects and community involvement. We offer a supportive learning environment that fosters growth and success.
Join us to develop your English skills and open doors to new career opportunities and community engagement.
Language Skills for the Workplace
The English for Employment classes at The New American Association of Massachusetts address the immediate language and cultural adjustment needs of immigrants and refugees recently settled in Lynn and the North Shore. With both in-person and virtual learning, we can reach students even beyond the North Shore, who have settled in the Greater Boston area. Our students come from diverse backgrounds and educational levels, sharing a common bond of their history as refugees who have fled persecution and their desire to become proficient in English with the goal of obtaining employment to support themselves and their families.
While maintaining the foundational basics of the English language, each class focuses on nurturing the skills, vocabulary and confidence needed to find potential jobs, go on job interviews, and also to interact with bosses, clients, coworkers or customers once a job is found. As students move into employment, we continue to serve them by accommodating their new work schedules with evening classes or tutoring services. This supports our philosophy of continuing their education to advance themselves within their careers.
At all levels, active participation in role plays, interactive games, and pair or small group work is used extensively to get students practicing and developing their spoken English as much as possible. Our classrooms are a safe and supportive environment for students to share their life and career experiences, to encourage each other in their search for employment, and to believe that a better life is in all of their futures.
We currently offer seven levels of English. From Survival Literacy, where students are learning to read and write for the first time, to Advanced, where students are engaging with each other in organic discussion about relevant topics.
At all levels, teachers ask themselves “how can this help a student find work?” Or, “how can this help students succeed at work?” From discussing schedules, to asking for a day off, teachers create a mock-work environment, requiring students to communicate effectively and behave professionally to prepare them for the workplace. Their peers are their coworkers, and their teacher is their manager. This creates a safe practice space for the world of work in the United States.
English Language Training for Integration
Hands-On Experiential Learning
English Language Training for Integration provides an ELT model that is specifically directed at those clients who are not solely focused on seeking employment, integrating their preexisting interests and skills, and utilizing a hands-on, experiential learning paradigm.
ESOL classes are offered in high-interest areas including art, music, life skills, wellness and yoga and English Language through Phone Apps and Online Games. Students will participate in project-based learning which strengthens their English speaking, reading, and writing skills as well as allowing them to share their knowledge, demonstrate their talents, and collaborate with their classmates. Projects will help students explore essential topics, such as financial literacy, life skills, and civic engagement in a relevant and tangible context.
What makes the ELT program so unique is that it offers English language and cultural instruction, while nurturing other social and creative outlets at the same time. This creates a safe space for students, especially those who have traditionally never received schooling from their home country, or who have other circumstances that create barriers in the traditional classroom. The ELT program also serves specific linguistic and cultural communities, working with Ukrainian refugees and Afghan women and men separately, to create a comfortable learning environment for our non-traditional learners.
English Classes for Lynn Public School Parents
Strengthening Family and School Connections
In collaboration with Lynn Public Schools, NAAM provides English lessons to parents and caregivers of Lynn Public Schools’ students. Our Lynn Public Schools (LPS) program works with parents to build their confidence in communicating professionally with teachers and administrators on behalf of their children. LPS provides parents with not only communication skills, but the ability to help their children with their schoolwork, increasing their engagement with their child’s learning and success. Adopting a more traditional ESOL classroom dynamic, LPS helps students communicate across the community, whether it is at the doctor’s office or the RMV.
Do you want to improve your English? Do you have a child in the Lynn Public School System? Reach out to our LPS Coordinator, Paola Colunga.
Phone Number: (781) 593-0100 x 732
Cell. (781) 346-9443
WhatsApp. (857)472-2236