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The Queen's English - Speaking well, an investment in the future

Lucy Neville-Rolfe, director of corporate and legal affairs at TESCO recently shared her disappointment with the calibre of students leaving school, and one of the areas that needs to be addressed is language skills. London, is a melting pot of a variety of languages and accents and people from all over the world are making the United Kingdom their home.

This has resulted in some cases, the mispronunciation of words or accent distortion, due to the influence of their respective mother tongue.

In an effort to help children and young people between the ages of five to 18 with accent reduction and speech difficulties, Mrs. Sedgebeer, Managing Partner of Executive Language Tutors has launched two Little Voices Acting and Performance Academies based in Brixton and Sydenham, south London to help the community in their language skills.  Little Voices Academy, Brixton will be launched on February 15, 2011. The programme has been developed for young people from the ages of five to 18 and utilizes acting and physical speech dexterity exercises in a fun manner.  Those who have seen the King’s Speech will understand some of the techniques used.

 
 Janette Sedgebeer of Executive Language Teachers, conducts a training session

Janette Sedgebeer, a professional English language teacher and Speech and Voice Associate of LAMDA and the International Centre for Voice whose research in applied linguistics is based at King's College London has developed a unique method of teaching accent reduction and correcting speech impairment to individuals who have strong foreign accents or speaking defects.  In a matter of six weeks, many of her clients are able to converse in authentic “BBC” English.

Executive Language Tutors has taught pilots who need to converse in spoken English, and executives from all over the world who conduct business with the west, and professionals such as doctors of various nationalities and teachers from foreign countries who teach in the UK.