English Learning Institution

As you would learn, there are numerous language institutions in SL, but how do learners choose those communities which are suitable for them seems to be an unsettled question. We would like to focus on having more insight into different English learning institutions and at the same time, we set up a set of criteria to assist individual learners in choosing language schools.

Since our group has decided to do a research on English leaning institutions, we’ve started to sort out whatever institutions we have interest in. However, things seem not to go smoothly when we tried to interview the founder of the institutions we opted for. Therefore, it took lots of time for most of us to stick at least two institutions at the same time for interviewing successfully, since most of the time, we couldn’t bump into the founder there, even the members.

The institution I chose to do is Cypris Village. So far I have still worked on interviewing my target founder within several times because he is quite busy and before I officially interview him, I attended the class the community provided every week to have better understanding of the language learning community
The questionnaire we have designed is as following:

Teaching Goal and Objective:
What are your teaching goals and objectives?
Year:
How long has your institution been found?
Features of school:
What kind of teaching method do instructors usually use?
Teaching Method
Which skills do you focus and what teaching methods do you use?
Media:
What kind of media do you use? (ex: video clips, PPT, podcast)
Teaching Material:
Do you use any teaching materials?
Schedule (Time):
Do you have classes for students in different time zones?
How long is each class?
Teacher:
How many teachers are there in your institution?
What are the backgrounds of the teachers? (American, Europeans, Canadians, British?)
What are the criteria for choosing teachers?
Student:
How many students in each class?
How many students in your institution?
What is the major age group of students? (18-25, 26-34, 35-42, 43-50, above?)
What are students’ nationalities?

Class fee:
Are these classes available for free?
How much for each class?

Do you have a website ?