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Introducing….
Becoming certified in the Compton P-ESL (Pronouncing English as a Second Language) method of accent modification is a valuable investment for speech pathologists seeking to expand their professional repertoire and offer a highly sought-after service. P-ESL instructors typically work with motivated professionals in the fields of business, technology, healthcare, and academia who seek this support to improve communication in the workplace, enhance career opportunities, or increase confidence during presentations and meetings. Clients are often pursuing higher education or working in research and academic settings. They may want to refine their accent to improve communication with peers, professors, and future employers.
The P-ESL method is recognized for its scientific approach to accent reduction, utilizing detailed phonetic assessments and targeted exercises to help clients improve their spoken English clarity. By obtaining certification, speech pathologists can confidently address the unique challenges faced by non-native English speakers, providing them with the tools to communicate more effectively in both personal and professional settings. Occasionally, businesses invest in accent and pronunciation instructional training for their employees, especially in roles that require frequent interaction with clients, presentations, or leadership.
Your clients will be driven by professional development and personal growth goals, with a strong emphasis on improving their ability to communicate clearly and confidently in English.
Certified P-ESL practitioners can significantly enhance their career prospects and open up new revenue streams. With globalization increasing the demand for clear, effective communication, professionals from diverse industries seek accent modification services to advance their careers and improve workplace interactions. By offering P-ESL training packages, speech-language pathologists and ESL teachers can attract a broader clientele including business executives, educators, healthcare professionals, and more. This not only diversifies their practice but also positions them as experts in a niche field, increasing their marketability and potential earnings.
Moreover, P-ESL certification empowers you to make a meaningful impact on your clients’ lives. Enhanced communication skills lead to greater confidence and professional success, fostering personal growth and satisfaction for clients. By helping individuals overcome communication barriers, you play a crucial role in promoting inclusivity and reducing misunderstandings in multicultural environments. The sense of accomplishment derived from witnessing clients’ progress and success is deeply rewarding, making P-ESL certification a fulfilling professional endeavor.
Here’s what others have to say about the P-ESL Certification Course:
I am very glad I finally found a phonology course that integrates so well theory and practice!
Diana P., ILP Academy student
Thank you for your wonderful course and kit. It will help me a lot in the future!
Erin C., ILP Academy student
Thank you all for your hard work! I enjoyed the course very much and look forward to putting this method into practice.
Bodhi M., ILP Academy student
“I can’t believe a week has gone by already since my colleague and I completed the training. We’ve already started the process of engaging students.”
Jane D. – Grand Rapids, MI, Certified PESL Instructor and workshop attendee
“I am in awe of your willingness to offer support and guidance to the rest of us based on your own experiences. What you shared was extremely valuable. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.”
Lisa – West Vancouver, BC, Certified PESL Instructor and workshop attendee
Dear soon-to-be Certified P-ESL Instructor,
If you’ve had a strong urge to explore the feasibility, practicality, effectiveness and motivating nature of accent and pronunciation training in a variety of professional settings (corporate training, 1-on-1 client work, web-based instruction or in clinical private practice), you’re invited to discover the research-based and highly structured yet flexible design of the P-ESL Accent Modification Method in an online course designed to be completed at your own pace.
You can complete the entire training/certification program here. The certification course is self-paced. Take a week. Take two. Take a month. You’ll have access to the course for one full year.
Getting started and creating a foundation in this unique line of work doesn’t have to be overwhelming. You need a plan, a structure and an openness to developing business and marketing skills, which were very likely not a part of your academic or clinical training.
SLPs… are you curious about what it’s like to work with motivated adults outside of academic, institutional, and clinical settings…
Perhaps you’ve heard people speak of this intriguing field called Corporate Speech Pathology… perhaps you’ve always had a strong interest in “accent modification” but were never sure how to get started…
and you’re looking for a new way to use your skills and credentials because billing, paperwork and documentation have begun to suck the joy out of your daily work…
or you still do truly enjoy your day-to-day responsibilities, but you’d like to pick up accent and pronunciation training on the side and bring in some additional income?
Maybe you’d just like to get started, as quickly as possible, teaching accent and pronunciation instruction for a fee, but don’t want to start from scratch, re-invent the wheel, and make it all up on your own.
ESL Instructors, have you been looking for a structured, organized and systematic approach to correct your “improvised” attempts at teaching American English pronunciation?
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that it might be lucrative and even fun to apply your existing knowledge in professional settings with people who want your training services… and clients who are driven and motivated to succeed?
You love your professional background, and certainly have no regrets about what you’ve accomplished, but you feel ready for something new, something different without changing career fields…
Perhaps your goal is to spend more of your time doing what makes you happy, while still using your professional strengths and skills. Perhaps you are ready to spend time with some of the most motivated clients you’ve ever worked with.
Every one of those reasons was true for me when I decided to start offering my professional services in this field. And here are a few things I wish I knew back then:
- Don’t listen to any discouraging voices from people who are not familiar with your skills or professional background. This is a great, exciting field and these services are in demand by highly motivated professionals who understand the value in this professional support.
- There just is no other program as comprehensive, flexible and effective at accomplishing its purpose (measurably improved pronunciation accuracy and clarity) as Dr. Arthur Compton’s P-ESL Method. It is a step-by-step method that starts with an evaluation and guides the client through a step-by-step process that incrementally becomes more demanding as they work their way through an individualized 90-day plan that results in measurable improvement and progress.
- Months and years have a way of flying by while you’re not looking. It never pays to put off the decision to explore and learn something new. You’re going to discover options you don’t yet know about after taking the first couple of steps. Furthermore, a year from now you’ll regret the steps you don’t take today, so now is really the best time to get started .
I’m Joe Comeau, the Training Director, workshop leader and course coordinator for the ILP Training Division.
If you’ve got the drive, you can discover ways of shifting your focus to begin using the same 24 hours each of us are given every day to accomplish new tasks that move you in a new direction. Like many SLPs with experience in nearly every clinical setting, after being a certified SLP for a decade, I began to yearn for something new, different and… well, just more interesting to do with my time and my skills.
If you undoubtedly believe that you just don’t have the time to explore options because of your current commitments, then that will be true until you stop believing it. I mention this because I’ve heard many fellow SLPs and other professionals say they’d love to explore and develop the opportunity to begin offering accent and pronunciation training to motivated adults but just can’t seem to find the time to fit it into their current schedules.
Once you change your beliefs and time management habits, you’ll find new opportunities. There’s already a large and growing community of professionals doing what you WANT to do, with an ever-expanding market place. (You can find and contact some of them with your thoughts and questions by browsing the ILP Trainer Directory.)
There’s an even more robust community already inside The ILP Academy – just on the other side.
ILP Academy opened in 2012, with past workshop participants invited to tour and review the content online. After the peer review process was complete, the doors were then opened by invitation only to a small number of professionals ready to make the plunge. ILP Academy has been offering P-ESL Certification online for over a decade, and the number of Certified P-ESL instructors who completed the training online is well into the thousands.
You don’t have to be a speech-language pathologist (but you’ll have an advantage if you are).
Although it helps tremendously (because you will already be familiar with the concepts, terminology and methodology used in the PESL method), it is not a requirement for providing accent and pronunciation instruction. It was created for SLPs, by SLPs, but the delivery of accent modification instruction is not regulated by state or national licensing boards in the United States. The talented pool of Certified PESL instructors includes ESL teachers, linguistics instructors, drama and voice coaches and foreign language teachers.
Our courses are appropriate for any professional with at least three years of professional experience in the fields of communication disorders, ESL instruction, linguistics, voice and diction coaching, or any individual currently enrolled in a graduate-level program in Communication Disorders.
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Learn every step of the process of guiding clients from poor levels of communication to measurably improved American English pronunciation. Then work on growing a business out of these skills.
Upon completion of the The Compton P-ESL Accent Modification Certification Course, you’ll be recognized as a Certified P-ESL Instructor and receive a certificate of completion.
You’ll have all the tools you need to begin offering services in face-to-face and web-conferencing settings.
Accent modification and pronunciation instruction for foreign-born ESL speakers continues to be a service in high demand among professionals in leadership, management and entrepreneurial roles. These will be your new clients!
The PESL course has a long history (three decades) of being the “go-to” approach for pronunciation and accent instructors. It is used not only by independent trainers, but by dozens of university speech clinics around the US, and by English language teachers around the globe. They love having a reliable and systematic approach.
It begins with a personalized assessment.
Using the same approach taught in ILPs foundational workshops, you’ll learn the step-by-step systematic approach to guiding clients toward clearer, confident, easier-to-understand pronunciation of American English, with a strong emphasis on personalized learning.
A thorough assessment and analysis process reveals the specific sounds that are making an individual sound “heavily” or noticeably accented when speaking American English. The criteria for defining a “heavy” accent is highly subjective, but let’s agree that this type of speaker has difficulty expressing a message clearly, despite being proficient with English vocabulary.
The assessment creates the roadmap – the individualized training program unique to each client.
Assess and teach one person at a time, or combine the analysis results of several learners to create a group learning experience. An instructor can create learning groups containing up to 5 individuals – all with different L1 (native language) backgrounds. The student’s pronunciation of English may bear the strong influence of Russian, Chinese, Spanish, any of the Indo-Pakistani languages, Greek… you name it. It doesn’t matter. They will each learn from individualized programs and they can learn simultaneously in group classes.
You won’t need to “match” students by their language background. You’ll be given the step-by-step instructions that make it possible to design a 90-day learning program that teaches everyone in the group only the pronunciation skills they need to make their speech easier to understand in any social or professional setting.
at least 50% easier to understand – in the first 90 days.
50% more accurate.
50% fewer pronunciation errors.
50% less frustrating repetition
But the 50% benchmark is not a self-imposed limit. It was the average improvement level shown by hundreds of speakers from over 100 different language backgrounds in the research-based design used to create the method. That means some scored lower, some scored higher. This is not about hyped-up claims. This is not about eliminating accents. This is about teaching clients a skill they can activate whenever the situation demands clearer, more accurate and easy-to-understand spoken English skills.
Ask any trainer who has delivered or conducted an entire individualized PESL program with paying clients. They will inevitably tell you that results are very often in the 60, 70 sometimes even the 80% range. If the client uses the techniques taught in the course and commits to a regular practice routine, it would be unfair to the client to expect only a 50% change. The typical client is a highly-motivated professional who understands the need for improved communication skill. It’s a very refreshing change for many instructors looking for something outside traditional clinical settings.
English is the preferred language in business and professional settings around the world.Students, leaders, managers, business owners, corporate officers, movers-and-shakers and deal makers everywhere want to, need to communicate clearly in English to achieve their personal and professional goals. There is a huge, healthy, competitive market for pronunciation and accent instruction services, and a relatively small pool of professionals prepared to deliver the service. And we haven’t even begun to discuss web-based training options.
Every component of the PESL training system can be delivered online by a certified instructor (you!).
You may need to up your game in the area of technology and web-based conferencing platforms, but it’s a necessary and rewarding process if you’d like to expand your possibilities and offer your skilled training services to professionals nearly anywhere in the world.
Prefer a face-to-face style of training? ILP Academy courses will prepare you for all of the options. Our traditional and web-based assessment and training tools can be used in virtually any training or consulting arrangement – be it virtual or in person. Picture yourself teaching clients in your own studio, classroom or office? You’ll get everything you need by completing the course. Ready to train your clients via web-conferencing or telephone? You’ll get everything you need by completing the course.
Join now to finally kick start your interest in accent training.