You need to start implementing an English language training program now. Well at least if you’re a commercial driver’s license company or you own a commercial driver’s training business.
Through that program you can help all your employees or students develop advanced English skills, which is key. If these language skills were already important for their work, now they will be absolutely necessary for their job in the US.
This is because the latest policies have strengthened the rules for commercial drivers’ language abilities. Now it’s a must for them to have English proficiency, especially writing and speaking.
This affects both your company and the drivers. Who knows? Maybe you have excellent employees truly committed to their task, but they’re not fluent in English. You don’t want to lose them just for that, right?
So the best you can do is provide your employees with all the tools to master English. They’ll be grateful, as they’ll feel your support. Don’t worry. It doesn’t have to be as hard as it sounds. Fluency Corp is a language training company, so we’ll be glad to help you!
Consequences of Not Knowing English
The consequences of your workforce not speaking English fluently and not knowing how to read it and write can be fatal. Not only for them, but for your business as well.
For commercial drivers this means that they will be put out of service!
Yes, just for not knowing English well enough; it will be considered that they’re not abiding by the rules. And the corresponding authorities will have all the power to do this.
What Must My Drivers Do to Be English Proficient?
What does being proficient in English mean? Well, as language instructors we can tell you that it means to have all your language skills incredibly well polished and being fluent. Which is exactly what we work on here at Fluency Corp.
So, if you want your drivers to stay out of trouble and to keep their license, they will have to work on:
- Having strong writing skills. This includes grammar, vocabulary, composition, coherence…
- Being fluent in English. This means they must be able to hold conversations with natives and to express thoughts, feelings and ideas with clarity without much stuttering. And even to express themselves as natives would do, with all their idioms, language crutches, and nuances.
- Building outstanding reading skills. This includes having great reading comprehension, as well as reading with fluency, not stumbling over your words a lot.
This is so they can do things like understanding the different road signs or answering the officials. All of these things will help them be more prepared for the FMSCA evaluation.
Yes, drivers will go through an evaluation to see their skills and notice if they’re truly proficient in English. This will consist of:
- A conversational evaluation.
- Identifying road signs.
And you need English for all of that.
What Should You Do?
You probably already heard about everything you have to do in your company to make sure your workers know English at a very advanced level. Like the evaluation for English proficiency you have to implement.
But what else can you do to actually help them?
- Ask your employees how they are feeling and give them support and reassurance that you’ll help them improve their language skills.
Invest in their language classes. - Hire an English training company, like Fluency Corp to make sure your employees meet all the English as a second language requirements.
- Ask the language services you hire to prepare your drivers for your company’s evaluation.
- Then keep preparing your drivers in all language skills for the FMSCA evaluation.
- Make sure to ask the company you hire to help your employees learn English to prepare every student according to their own goals, needs and challenges. Thankfully, Fluency Corp does exactly that!
How Can Fluency Corp Help?
Here at Fluency Corp we offer corporate language training for different kinds of companies. You can check some case studies on our page.
This means that we can help you and your employees learn English. So you’re not affected by the stronger commercial driver’s license policies that have been implemented!
Our classes are completely customized to the job and your language needs. Just tell us what you need and we’ll gladly help.
Do you need to learn English from scratch? Do your employees only need to improve their grammar and writing skills? Do they need to work on their accent and pronunciation? Or perhaps you all must learn some vocabulary for drivers to boost your speaking skills…
Whatever it is, we’re here for you. Together we’ll come up with the best plan for your company and workforce.
The best of all is that our lessons are based on the Bellieu Method, created by our founder and language expert, Micah Bellieu. It consists of encouraging our students to speak in their target language in every single class.
This means practice, practice, and more practice. So, you’ll definitely achieve English fluency!
Oh, and because we know how busy you all are, we offer online or onsite lessons.
Let us summarize it for you; we offer:
- Corporate second language training for your whole workforce
- Personalized plan
- Speaking practice
- Native teachers!
- Flexible schedules
- Online or onsite classes
- Safe space to make mistakes
- Classes in more than 10 languages, including English!
Be the best boss ever and help your drivers boost their English, so their job is secure. Contact us for a free consultation now!
