Teaching languages, training teachers, and promoting cross-cultural understanding and diversity in communities since 1984!
🏆 2024 PIEoneer Language Training Provider of the Year ILI’s mission is to promote intercultural understanding and diverse communities by providing high-quality language instruction and teacher training. Language can bring people together or sometimes create barriers that are difficult to overcome. We know that in this country and many others, poor skills in the “official” language contribute to the marginalization of many people, making it hard for them to realize their full potential. At ILI, we provide language training in the hopes of bringing a truly multicultural, and linguistically equitable, society to reality. Our founders responded to the need for high quality language training in the Connecticut River Valley when they established ILI in 1984. Our teaching methods must be as effective as possible because language is so important to personal and professional lives. Traditional approaches to language training teach in an intellectualized way, often failing to provide students with the means to communicate and perform even basic, daily tasks in the language they wanted to learn. We seek to reverse this trend by teaching in a meaningful context, consistently encouraging active student participation in — and evaluation of — the learning experience. This intense level of student participation in program context and structure ensures the relevance of our offerings and helps to ensure their effectiveness. The school offers Free English classes to area Immigrants and Refugees, Intensive English Program and University Pathway track, World Language classes in French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, ESOL Teacher Training Certificate, Workplace Training for businesses and Language Travel. ILI is accredited by ACCET, the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training and by IALC, the International Association of Language Centres.
