Langdons Language Institute was established in July 1993 and for over ten years have taken the challenge of educating and training the young and professional minds of today for the future. Having recognized the current need for Spanish/French, it is now included in our Curriculum. To support today’s world of ever-changing technological
advancement, we designed all our courses towards developing the necessary skills required to function in the Global Market.
Situated in Chaguanas, the Institute offers a highly personal and friendly service to help you and your company communicate to your existing and prospective clients.
Class sizes are small, typically 8-10 students, ensuring that all the students have an ideal opportunity to practice and gain confidence in speaking their new language.
The course design is flexible, which enables the institute to meet the individual needs of particular groups. Qualified and highly experienced native speakers are willing and able to deliver a most comprehensive curriculum.
You will find that we have created a happy, relaxed and friendly atmosphere where learning language is a real pleasure.
OUR MISSION
To empower our stakeholders breaking the barriers of communication and creating lasting relationships by teaching language and culture professionally and efficiently while respecting the differences of all nations and peoples that makeup our global community.
OUR GOALS
To meet the communication needs of companies and individuals.
To make bilingual, all individuals, and businesses that accepts our comprehensive language programme.
To have Spanish/French used as a common tool for everyone who attend our institute.
To destroy the myth that it takes years to comprehend another Language.
To make the global market accessible to your business.
To offer a comprehensive package with quality learning facilities that is second to none.
To give quality communication skills at an affordable price.
WHY LANGDONS ?
WHY LANGDONS…
Language laboratories, computers, and self-access materials are available.
Lots of interaction with foreign students to encourage practice of your new Language and to get you accustomed to the traditions and culture of Spanish and French speaking countries.
Full-activity programme all year organised and accompanied by expert guides, excursions offered on weekends, all year round.
Our Institute is staffed with responsible and caring individuals to insure your personal comfort and accomplishment, (Your Success is our Success).
The Institute is a centre for the PITMANS ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) examinations.
We prepare foreign students for the TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language)
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
We are professional linguists and teachers, and we understand better than most the problems you face using Spanish or French at work and in your leisure time.
Management and staff at the Institute have an open contact with the students.
This means, from the day you register you have regular contact with the decision makers who will be there to make your learning and effective as possible. The same is true of our classroom facilities. We take every effort to make it as comfortable as possible.
THE CURRICULUM
Our programme is designed for:
Professionals and Students or Persons with little or no knowledge of the target Language.
Proper communication in Business and every day use.
Persons seeking promotion or simply a well paying job.
Persons wishing to find employment in Companies that is internationally linked.
The Institute is a centre for the PITMANS ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) examinations.
Persons who want to live and/or work in a Spanish speaking country
PROGRAMAS Y CURSOS DE INGLES
Our Programs
BA IN SPANISH AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
PROGRAMME AIMS
The BA combines the study of the Spanish language with aspects of Spanish and Latin American culture from the medieval period to the present day. You'll gain skills in reading, writing and speaking Spanish. Optional units include art, film, and political and historical writing. Emphasis is also placed on ways of reading texts, in order to develop your analytical and critical skills.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The BA consists of 11 units
Level 1
(four units):
Spanish language 1*
AND three further introductory units from the list below
Level 2
(four units):
Spanish language 2
AND three units taken from the list of further introductory units
Level 3
(three units):
Spanish language 3
AND two further units from the list of specialised options below not previously offered at Level 2
Further
introductory units:
Introduction to medieval literature
Tradition and innovation in Golden Age prose and drama
Introduction to 19th- and 20th-century narrative
The essay in Latin America
Medieval love poetry
Specialised options:
Medieval love poetry
The struggle of modernity in 20th-century Spanish culture
Literature and the nation in Latin America
Spanish language 4
Women in the prose and drama of the Golden Age
Spanish women writers and the canon
Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Latin America
Culture and society in modern Spain
Exhibiting the nation in Latin America
BA Spanish and Latin American Studies
Students who demonstrate a native or near-native speaker competence in Spanish at the entrance test (see page 41) will be required to replace ‘Spanish language 1’ with either a further introductory unit or a specialised option.
From October 2007, a Language Marking Service will be available exclusively for students studying for the BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies with the University of London
External System. Full details of the service, together with practice exercises for each of the four language components offered on the degree, will be circulated.
Objectives of the programme
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The programme combines study of the Spanish language with aspects of Spanish and Latin American culture from the medieval period to the present day.
Particular attention is paid to the ways in which different cultural forms relate to their historical context.
Some of the units include art, film, and political and historical
writing, alongside literary texts.
Emphasis is also placed on ways of reading texts, in order to
develop students’ analytical and critical skills.
BA IN FRENCH
PROGRAMME AIMS
The BA offers you the opportunity to study the French language from its origin to the present day; French literature; and the social, political and economic institutions of France. You're expected to gain an outstanding facility in reading, writing and speaking
French, but also, and principally, a trained mind. In addition, you'll develop the confidence which comes with appraising intellectual issues, articulating your own conclusions by developing an independent and enterprising spirit.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The BA consists of 11 units
Level 1
(four units):
Core unit:
Translation 1 (half unit)
AND Core Progression unit:
Written French 1 (full unit)
AND five half units:
Principles of textual analysis
Introduction to narrative
The linguistics of French 1
Crisis, nation, identity: perspectives on modern France
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Level 2
(four units):
Core unit:
Translation 2 (half unit)
AND Core Progression unit:
Written French 2 (full unit)
AND five half units:
Shaping fictions
Writing romance and desire
The linguistics of French 2
Culture and ideology
Staging the text
Level 3
(four units):
Three core half units of practical language work:
Written French 3
Spoken French 3
Advanced prose and translation 3
AND three half units chosen from:
The linguistics of French 3
French medieval literature
Literature of challenge: the French philosophes
Love and society in the modern French novel
Modern French dramatists
AND one full unit Special Subject chosen from:
Aspects of contemporary French
Rousseau
Baudelaire
Zola
Proust
Medieval Occitan
Objectives of the programme
You are not only expected to gain an outstanding facility in reading, writing and speaking French, but also (and principally) a trained mind. Thus, you will be exercising and refining your abilities to assemble information, to appraise it, and to articulate
your own conclusions by developing an independent and enterprising spirit.
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The degree programme has a firm nucleus of practical work in the French language. Additionally, it covers historical and analytical study of the French language from its origin to the present day, the literature of France from the earliest texts to the
present and French social, political and economic institutions.
BA IN ENGLISH
COURSE AIMS
The course has two main aims. The first is to challenge and inspire you to read widely across the full range of literatures in English, as well as to engage closely with selected works. Secondly, it will help you to develop the necessary critical and linguistic skills to read, discuss and write about literary and non-literary texts effectively and with confidence
Four compulsory foundation units:
Explorations in literature I
Explorations in literature II
Approaches to text
Renaissance comedy: Shakespeare and Jonson
Level 2
(four units):
Group A/Period studies
(at least four units must be chosen from this Group)
Literature of the later Middle Ages
Renaissance and Restoration
Augustans and Romantics
Victorians
Moderns
Group B
(at least three units must be chosen from this Group)
Literary theory: Plato to Pater
Varieties of language in conversation and literature
Reading women’s writing
Shakespeare
The novel
Modern American literature
Nineteenth-century American literature
Drama since 1860
Irish literature in English from 1800 to the present day
Empire and literature
Postcolonial literatures in English
Modern literary theory
Romanticism
Advanced personal study
DIPLOMA IN ENGLISH
Four compulsory units:
Explorations in literature I
Explorations in literature II
Approaches to text
Renaissance comedy: Shakespeare and Jonson
The Diploma in English
The Diploma in English, which was introduced in 1996, has been developed following the success of the BA English. The Diploma will appeal to two different kinds of student. Firstly, there are those who would like a University of London award in English, but do not feel ready to commit themselves to studying for a full
degree programme. Secondly, there are students who do not satisfy the University’s entrance requirements for the degree. The Diploma gives these students the opportunity to gain access to the degree if their Diploma studies are successful.
Objectives of the BA programme
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You will study a range of literary and other works written in different styles and periods; from this study you will develop an awareness of changing rhetorical techniques and effects, as well as greater knowledge of many literary works.
The study of English is concerned with questions of meaning, social behaviour and structure, as well as with problems of aesthetic and cultural value. Your work directs you not only towards a wide range of examples of writing but also towards greater awareness of moral and social questions, surrounding the techniques through which analysis and persuasion are achieved.
You will develop a broad range of skills, including general communicative competence as well as more technical skills of literary-critical analysis.
The key skills gained should provide a sound basis for a range
of careers including the civil service, teaching, research, media
and business.
Note: These awards are specifically concerned with the study of English literature and it is assumed that prospective students will already be fluent in spoken and written English. The programme contains no element of training in language proficiency.
Transfer to the BA English
If you obtain the Diploma in English you may transfer your registration to the BA English and be automatically credited with the papers passed in the Diploma. In effect, you will go on to the advanced units of the BA English and will be able to complete the degree in a minimum of two further years. You should note that a student registered for the BA English who passes the foundation units cannot be awarded the Diploma in English
CERTIFICATE IN BILINGUAL SKILLS (CBS)
If you obtain the Diploma in English you may transfer your registration to the BA English and be automatically credited with the papers passed in the Diploma. In effect, you will go on to the advanced units of the BA English and will be able to complete the degree in a minimum of two further years. You should note that a student registered for the BA English who passes the foundation units cannot be awarded the Diploma in English
RELEVANCE
A practical, vocational alternative to a traditional "A" level, for all those working in the public or voluntary sector and who wish to use their language skills in their workplace.
All tasks in the examination are based on real-life situations in a public service context (Local Government, Health Service, Social Services, etc.)
POTENCIAL
Demonstrates proven capability in English and other languages at foundation level. Whether already employed or looking for a new career you will be qualified to use your language skills, improving your career prospects.
A useful starting point for those wishing to become professional interpreters. The CBS is a stepping stone towards the Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (DPSI), a higher, professional level examination offered by the IoLET.
FLEXIBILITY
Wide range of languages covered The examination is available in more than 40 languages.
Tailored examination.
If you have specific needs, and provided there are sufficient candidates, an examination can be devised to cater for these; e.g. for those in a branch of the Health or Probation Service
ACCREDITATION & FUNDING
Officially accredited by the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority.
Entered in the National Qualifications Framework at
Level 3.
COMPONENTS
The examination is held in May (Deadline for applications on 31st January) and consists of the following modules:
Role-play in a bilingual context
Sight translation from English and the other chosen language.
Letter in English and the other chosen language
Translation into English and the other chosen language.
DIPLOMA IN TRANSLATION (DipTrans)
The Diploma in Translation (DipTrans) was introduced in 1989 as a benchmark of professional standards and has since continued to meet the needs for a high level professional translating qualification.
It is a postgraduate level equivalent qualification intended to test the ability of those who wish to progress into careers as freelance translators or work for corporations worldwide, to a professional standard.
BENEFITS
The DipTrans offers a range of benefits
RELEVANCE
A widely recognised international qualification which provides a real measure of professional competence.
POTENCIAL
Facilitates entry to business and service industries as well as Masters degree level courses.
Entitles holders to apply for membership of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
FLEXIBILITY
General and semi-specialised units with options in different disciplines, including Business and Law.
Wide range of languages covered. The examination is available in more than 30 language combinations.
Numerous examination centres available worldwide.
Offered in over 35 countries.
Up to five (5) years to complete
ACCREDITATION & FUNDING
Accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
Entered into the National Qualifications Framework at Level 7 (postgraduate level).
RECOGNITION
Holders of the Diploma in Translation will be granted exemption from Module 6 (Translation Project) of the MA in Translation Studies at Birmingham University.
The Diploma in Translation is also recognised by the Open University and credit is awarded in the form of 60 points at level 2 with BA designation.
Students who attain a mark of 65% or more in the Annotated Translation Project of the MA in Applied Translation Studies at London Metropolitan University will be moderated by IoLET with a view to granting exemption from Paper 2 or 3 (semi-specialised translation) of the Diploma in Translation. Students who attain a mark of 65% or more in the Translation Project & Commentary of the BA (Hons) in Applied Translation at London Metropolitan University will be moderated by IoLET with a view to granting exemption from Paper 1 (General Translation Paper) of the Diploma in Translation
COMPONENTS
The examination is held in January (Deadline for applications on 31st July).
and consists of three (3) units:
DE ESTE NO HAY CONTENIDO O N O LO ENCONTRE
CERTIFICATE COURSES
Certificate in Spanish
12 levels
CXC Spanish
1 year
CXC Spanish
1 year
CXC Spanish
1 year
Business Spanish
24 contact hours
Short Hand Writing
8 weeks
Photography
12 weeks
Essay Writing
24 contact hours
Short Story Writing
24 contact hours
Certificate in French
12 levels
Business Communication
24 contact hours
Remedial Spanish
6 weeks
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