Personal Language Training
Professional development based on your needs
Maximise progress in shortest possible time
English language training when you need it
One-to-one private English lessons help you make the maximum progress in the shortest possible time
Key facts: Personal Language Training
| Age: | 16+ |
| Level: | from elementary (CEF A0) to advanced (CEF C2) |
| Start dates: | flexible |
| Length: | 1 week + |
| Class size: | maximum 12 |
| Lessons: | 1+ English lessons are taught Monday to Friday |
| Tuition fees: | from £570 |
| College room: | choose between college residence or homestay |
One-to-one study: an intensive personalised English language programme which focuses on your specific needs
Key benefits include:
- Personalised approach: enables us to create a unique English language programme so you can make quick progress
- Design your study experience: provides the flexibility to learn English or expand your language vocabulary for a range of professions
- Academic excellence: provides specialist English language teaching to boost your confidence and achieve your individual learning goals
- Open Learning Club: provides dedicated support to develop your interpersonal language skills
- Personal development: enables you to build professional skills including presentation and negotiation
- Careers expertise: supports and enriches your professional development experience
- An international experience with peers from over 20 countries: develops your existing networks and enhances cultural awareness
- Interactive and engaging teaching approach: takes learning beyond the classroom with personalised Study Visits and a varied weekly excursion programme
- Oxford: benefits your learning experience, as this inspirational academic city promotes learning
- Variety of progression options: improves your study choices so that you can fast-track your learning or take this course as part of our English Combination course.
One-to-one language training study options:
- Professional language:
- boosts your language confidence so you can deliver effective presentations
- develops cross-cultural sensitivity and awareness to inform negotiation strategies
- produces articles for professional journals.
- recent trainees: a senior academic (the Netherlands), CEO media company (South Korea), legal adviser (Brazil)
- Academic language:
- improves your academic report writing and note-taking skills
- builds your communications skills to deliver effective presentations for seminars
- expands your linguistic, critical thinking as well as analytical skills for formal academic essays
- recent trainees: postgraduate student (United Arab Emirates), Pre-master’s student (China)
- Personal language:
- develops your pronunciation by improving your projection, intonation and stress
- improves your language abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking
- focuses your practise for IELTS and Cambridge exams (FCE, CAE).
- recent trainees: accountant (Qatar), retired businessman (Japan), fashion buyer (South Korea), property developer (Saudi Arabia), gap year student (Germany)
Contact us
Please fill in this form to submit an enquiry about our Personal Language Training course.
You may also wish to get in touch to arrange a campus tour or find out what it is like to live and study in the city of Oxford.
Course dates and fees
Although the minimum length of stay for One-to-One students is two weeks, you might like to choose your arrival date to match dates when other new students are arriving and enjoy the atmosphere.
From September to May, university students from America come here to study as part of their gap year. You will be able to live with them in college and share your social life as a group. This is a unique experience to improve your English.
Courses start on Sundays
| 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2 September | 30 September | 28 October |
| 18 November | ||
| 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 6 January | 3 February | 3 March |
| 21 April | 19 May | 16 June |
| 23 June | 7 July | 21 July |
| 28 July | 4 August | 18 August |
| One-to-One lessons | from September 2017 |
| 10 private lessons per week | £570 |
| 15 private lessons per week | £855 |
| 25 private lessons per week | £1425 |
Minimum stay is two weeks
(note: one lesson = 55 minutes)
Try our Fees Calculator to see how much the course will cost
Accommodation options
| Self catering — per week | |
|---|---|
| Twin Standard | £238 |
| Twin Superior | £289 |
| Single Standard | £307 |
| Single Superior | £376 |
| Homestay — per week (includes breakfast and dinner every day) |
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| Single Standard – with shared bathroom | £238 |
| Single Superior – with private bathroom | £314 |
| Add Meals | |
| Lunch — Monday to Friday | £44 per week |
Try our Fees Calculator to see how much the course will cost
Optional Extras
Personal Language Training
Students can add one-to-one English language lessons to their language classes. Lessons last 55 minutes and are charged at £57 per lesson.
Examination fees
Fees for the following examinations are currently between approximately
£150 -£210.
IELTS
Cambridge examinations
B2 First (FCE)
C1 Advanced (CAE)
C2 Proficiency (CPE)
Other examinations
TOEIC
TOEFL
Optional college weekend trips / theatre visits / excursions, etc.
Day excursions at weekends — free to £40
Theatre tickets and transport — £25 to £45
Weekend trip with overnight stay (two nights) — £70 to £300
Additional sports and other activities — £10 to £15 per week
Other costs
Stationery/book purchase (loan of books is included in fees)
General spending money — allow a minimum of £80 per week
Bus travel: single trip from £2.00; 1 week £14.50; 4 week 49.00
St Clare’s sweatshirt £20
Please note: Prices are approximate please contact us at ic.enquiries@stc
One-to-one English language lessons
Create your own English language programme for university, for career, for life
