Complete

7ACT has always held firm to its mission statement to "Reform the English education industry", an industry which has traditionally been treated with suspicion and contempt for very good reason. The majority of Eikaiwa schools focus on lessons only, with the only advice offered to students being to take more lessons. However, as most instructors will be more than aware, it is what students do between taking lessons that makes the greatest difference.

The COMPLETE system is designed to afford both the student and instructor as much support as is feasible to assist the student in achieving their goals. Our focus is not just to satisfy the customer, but rather to amaze them with service and results.

When joining Complete, students specify their yearly goal, and their current level is tested. 7ACT then analyses and assesses exactly what is necessary for the student to achieve those goals in a one-year period. This will include home study and lesson curriculums as well as a self-motivation program.

After 7ACT writes a basic curriculum, the instructor is then contacted and asked for their opinion and input in regard to both the home and lesson programs. A final copy is then be completed and sent to the student in Japanese and the instructor in English. The instructor is then asked to co-operate with the curriculum.

The student will undertake independent level checks, counseling and have new curriculums customized at three-month intervals. The level checks will measure the student's progress and is an important factor in the development of their new study programs. If progress has not been made, we will try to locate the cause of this and take proper action.
The counseling allows us to make sure the student is following the program and gives them a chance to voice their feelings, concerns and desires. We also try to offer advice to the student.

This has been designed to create minimal burden on instructors, as the extra work is done centrally by professional staff. In fact, we have had a pilot system operational since the beginning of 2003, with amazing results.
Students will be required to follow quite a strict self-motivation program called the 'Success navigator', and are encouraged to take a minimum of one lesson per week, so their progress is constantly being recorded. We believe this will significantly decrease the number of student cancellations.

- Process - (10 days to 4 weeks)

Overall (30) The Overall Score of the test represents the ability to understand spoken English and speak it intelligibly at a native conversational pace on everyday topics. Scores are based on a weighted combination of four diagnostic sub-scores. Scores are reported in the range from 20 to 80. 28-36 Test-taker can manage some slow, short, isolated utterances, or spoken formulas, but has difficulty following any native conversation; test-taker may often pause to search for words and may be difficult to understand. Sentence Mastery (33) Sentence Mastery reflects the ability to understand, recall and produce English phrases and clauses in complete sentences. Performance depends on accurate syntactic processing and appropriate usage of words, phrases and clauses in meaningful sentence structures. 31-46 Test-taker can understand, recall and produce some English phrases and clauses in sentence context. Test-taker produces some simple meaningful sentences. Vocabulary (47) Vocabulary reflects the ability to understand common everyday words spoken in sentence context and to produce such words as needed. Performance depends on familiarity with the form and meaning of everyday words and their use in connected speech. 45-56 Test-taker usually understands and can produce everyday English words when they are used in clear speech. Fluency (20) Fluency reflects the rhythm, phrasing and timing evident in constructing, reading and repeating sentences. 20-37 Test-taker speaks in a slow manner with hesitations, false starts, long pauses, and/or omissions. Spoken words are often not linked and/or not grouped according to their sense. Pronunciation (28) Pronunciation reflects the ability to produce consonants, vowels and stress in a native-like manner in sentence context. Performance depends on knowledge of the phonological structure of everyday words. 25-37 Test-taker mispronounces many consonants and vowels, resulting in a strong, intrusive non-English accent. Listeners may have difficulty understanding a significant portion of the words. Stress placement is often unclear, and syllables may sometimes be added or skipped.

Students under this system will continue to take lessons according to the standard 7ACT curriculum. Adjustments may be made to the standard curriculum to better suit the students level, needs and goals. If radical changes are to be made, please make sure you have the student's permission and inform the 7ACT office.