Reducing the cost of the language gap

With globalization affecting each and every aspect of daily business life, the need for foreign language training has never been greater. Organizations that address the problem of the language gap in time can now effectively save both money and valuable human resources. Learn how CLT clients reduce the language gap while saving 50% on their language training and still get better results.

To attain the same learning target, CLT corporate language training is significantly more efficient than standard live training. The question today is not if a lack of foreign language skills impacts your organization, but how much it will actually cost you. Yet the trade-off for traditional training is the high costs companies face for training their entire workforce with live training. A comparison between conventional classroom training and CLT blended learning shows that companies can save as much as 50% per student without compromising on the quality of the training - without taking into consideration the additional expenditure of absence from the workplace, overtime, traveling and course dropouts.


Figure 1: CLT clients save apprx. 50% on direct training costs compared to a group training with 5 students. The figure shows costs per student for CLT intensive and a large language school on the basis of €45.00 per training unit with the goal of achieving CEF A1.

Save up to 50% per student while improving training quality
While saving on training expenditures, your organization need not dispense with quality results. An independent test revealed that CLT intensive students gain as much as 1.49 TOEIC points per hour of training compared to the average 1 point which the TOEIC organization expects in live training (Source: Ian Bell, Development Director ETS/TOEIC, Paris, 2004).


Figure 2: Approx. 560 learners, independent research by TOEIC at Renault worldwide, comparison data from automobile supplier Berner AG/ Germany. Group comparison at Berner: began with ø 538 points, finished with ø 621 points, gaining ø 1.49 points per training hour.

The average drop out rate for CLT intensive courses is only 4.9 %, a low level resulting from flexible self-instruction, combined with less frequent live training and constant contact with the personal online tutor.