What Makes Us Unique?
Tailored Language Training
At Toward English, we don’t guess what your employees need. We conduct a comprehensive needs analysis to understand their unique language requirements, ensuring our training aligns with their specific job functions and communication challenges.
Focused on Results
We prioritize measurable results. Our no-nonsense approach emphasizes performance-based assessments that demonstrate ROI. Our classes not only meet your company's unique needs but also engage and empower your employees through dynamic and enjoyable classes—Just check our reviews!
Customized Course Outcomes
Our training is built around your team. After assessing their needs, we customize course outcomes to deliver practical, relevant results that reflect the real-world English skills your employees require for their day-to-day tasks.
Real-Life Skills for Real Impact
Language learning made simple. At Toward English, we focus on equipping your employees with essential language skills for on-the-job tasks. We assess their abilities in realistic scenarios—like interviews and presentations—ensuring they can communicate effectively and overcome language barriers.
We believe that every student has the ability to learn and speak English fluently. But without clear objectives and a straightforward plan, it’s easy to lose motivation and give up.
Most students never achieve fluency, but it’s not because they’re incapable; it’s because they have vague objectives and a poor plan.
Our straightforward approach to customizing courses for organizations and individual professionals is to ensure that the course objectives and plan are crystal clear for all major stakeholders (ie project managers, employees, and instructors). Moreover, end-of-course assessment is performance-based and designed to determine student attainment of the course objectives. In sum, everything comes back to the needs analysis because that is what enables us to customize our existing courses or, if necessary, develop industry-specific courses from scratch (e.g. an English for medical purposes course or, English for construction).
Our approach
Nice to Meet You, I’m Matthew Andrewes, a co-founder of Toward English.
My journey as a language teacher began in 2012, teaching at “The Queen’s” in Japan. In October 2022, my wife and I founded Toward English with a vision to offer high-quality conversation classes to Brazilians.
Since then, our vision for Toward has steadily changed to meet the growing need for professional communication skills. Today, we help Brazilian companies and professionals develop communication skills to meet personal and professional goals. Additionally, we develop entirely customized curriculum for organizations that require highly specialized courses such as English for construction purposes (ECP), English for hospitality (EH), or English for medical purposes (EMP).
I have a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University (ALB in Extension Studies), a postgraduate degree from Trinity College London (LTCL DipTESOL), and a master’s from the University of Chichester (Master of Arts in Professional Development for Language Education)
FAQs
Why choose Toward English?
Unlike many language training companies that assume they know what your employees need in English, we take a different approach. We believe that understanding your team’s specific needs is critical to success. That’s why we begin with a comprehensive needs analysis to identify the real-world English skills your employees require.
Once we’ve accurately assessed your team’s needs, we customize our course outcomes to align with their specific job functions and communication challenges. This ensures that our training delivers practical, relevant results that reflect the day-to-day English your employees need.
Simply put, you should choose us because we focus on your company’s unique needs, deliver measurable results (ROI), and offer classes that students love (see our reviews). Our no-nonsense approach to needs analysis, combined with performance-based assessments, is the key to the success of our customized courses.
What is grant funding and is my company eligible for it?
All for-profit companies in MA are eligible, excepting only instances where taxes are owed or the company doesn’t contribute to unemployment benefits.
What does my company pay for, and what is covered?
Course costs are completely reimbursed up to $20,000. The only cost incurred by the company is employee wages for 50% of the time employees partake in the training. So if a course is 60 hours, employees would need to be compensated for 30 hours of their training time.
How long does it take for my company to be reimbursed for the course cost?
Reimbursements are typically issued in 6-8 weeks.
Who is eligible to participate in grant-funded language training?
Only W2 employees.
Are private classes also eligible for grant funding?
Yes, grant-funded classes can be group or 1-1.
What is the average duration of each course?
60 to 80 hours. 80 hours is the minimum recommended course length recommended for language training in Massachusetts; however, for smaller groups and 1-1 we offer expedited courses.
Are classes in-person or remote?
We offer both in-person and remote language training.
When do you offer classes?
Anytime day or night. Schedules depend on you.
How much does it cost?
Please schedule a meeting with us! We’d be happy to learn about your team’s needs and then give you a quote.
Are materials extra?
No, they’re included.
How long are contracts?
Usually 4-6 months, but other factors can influence this.
