Corporate tutoringThe Tutoring Center serves a variety of business people who do not take regular ELI classes. Some of these corporate clients are foreign-born resident employees of local companies, such as AstraZeneca, DuPont or MBNA, who wish to improve their English after or before their work day. A second group has been sent directly to Delaware by their employers especially to brush up their English at ELI, sometimes before longer assignments in this country. This typical business client comes daily for training each morning for two or three weeks and is often required to visit the company's local offices or labs in the afternoon.
One of these, Robert Boeck, who works on computer networking at Gore in Munich, Germany, arrived in early October on his second visit to the United States. A 17-year employee, he found the intensive morning training helpful in improving his listening comprehension, as he and his tutors worked with videotapes of business situations. Reviewing his grammar also helped when he visited one of the Gore sites in nearby Maryland every afternoon for two weeks and met colleagues he had only e-mailed before. Coming in the fall, he was pleased at the chance to walk across the street from his hotel and watch a UD football game. It had been one of his dreams to see American football, but he was unprepared for the colorful halftime show. The cultural as well as the educational experience is the reason corporate clients come to ELI. |