Founder of EPSR
Patrick E. Hayeck |
Apart from being regarded as a genius for reaching a native-like proficiency in English within only 2 years at the age of 21 without ever attending any formal English learning, Patrick has been an ESL teacher for over 5 years. He has had extensive experience teaching different classes starting from Beginners to Advanced. Although he has comprehensively taught English with its four macro-skills, his students have gratefully enjoyed his emphasis on pronunciation through speaking and listening.
Prior to being an ESL teacher, Patrick worked as a trainer/materials writer for a major telecommunication company for three years during which he trained customer service representatives how to articulate over the phone and in doing that how to prevent the occurrence of miscommunications affecting the customer’s experience over the phone.
Patrick’s abundant knowledge in phonetics and phonology comes from his background of being a second language learner of English himself, which has left most linguists utterly stupefied for mistaking him as a native speaker of English. His training experience in the telecommunication industry also helped him strengthen this knowledge even further as a large number of customers were immigrants with limited English whose pronunciation was quite problematic and thus Patrick was assigned to increase the awareness of his team in the problematic areas of pronunciation of the largest ethnic denominations in Australia such as Chinese, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Russian, Brazilian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Hungarian, and others.
Patrick holds a Master degree in Communication and Cultural studies and a Master degree in TESOL from Western Sydney University.
He designed the Pronunciation for Employment Purposes Course which he successfully taught at Lloyds International College for over 3 years.
Due to the course's popularity, he was assigned to design and launch the Pronunciation and Fluency courses for both lower and upper proficiency levels for Ability English. Patrick then created and developed the PRON Method (Pronunciation, Repetition, Oral correction and Neural Networks) taught exclusively at Ability Education.
Patrick is now the Pronunciation Division Coordinator at Ability English and has trained a number of very experienced ESL teachers to use his methodology successfully in the classroom.
In parallel, Patrick's teaching EPSR's pronunciation course "Living English" in the evening and working on the development of a new theory of second language acquisition based upon his own experience as a second language learner whose accomplishment in language learning has proved to be second to none.
The Founder's Statement
"For second language learners of English, the simplest everyday life activities such as watching TV, listening to the radio, riding a bus or train to school, or exchanging a short conversation with a store clerk can be turned to an invaluable learning experience only if the ears are given a clever training that can increase their potential to perceive what is uttered by English native speakers as English rather than gibberish. Unfortunately, none of the English schools we know of work to decode at least a part of this "noise" or gibberish into a comprehensible set of sounds. There almost seems to be a serious lack of awareness of what constitutes an English natural speech by most English teachers. EPSR aims to teach you this skill, that is, how to comprehend what is now for you is just "noise". EPSR will do that using a new technique that has already proven a great sucess for a large number of learners who had never thought of being able to improve their English the way they did! Please visit our Testimonials and read what other learners said about their learning experience. "
Steven Menczel Academic Director
Steven is a highly skilled communicator, trainer and teacher with a broad academic background, experienced across a wide range of fields – legal, business, education, performing arts – both in corporate and entrepreneurial roles. With a professional, positive and humorous attitude, and a proven track record of success in the corporate and ESL spheres, Steven has turned his passion for languages into a rare ability to connect with learners and play an important role in their language development. He has worked with CEOs, Company Directors, Architects, Lawyers as well as full-time mothers and teenagers.
Steven believes that spoken language is essentially music, and that learners need to develop the ability to interpret and produce that music in order to achieve their goals. In this way, he contends that pronunciation and the faculty to produce smooth, unbroken speech, is one of the cornerstones of enjoyable language progress. Steven focuses considerable time on opening learners' ears to the rhythms and intonation of English, and has achieved wonderful results with weaning students away from their insistence on relating to English primarily through the written word.
He holds Bachelor of Arts and Law Degrees, as well as a Master of Education in TESOL Degree from the University of Sydney, and has lectured at conferences, and designed workshops and courses for various institutions. Steven's expertise is in the area of English for Special Purposes - in particular Business English and exam course training, where he is a qualified IELTS examiner and experienced teacher. Steven brings techniques used in corporate, sport, and personal development training into the ESL world, and is known for his ability to motivate and inspire, and his insight into diagnosing specific language problems and finding solutions. Steven is dedicated to bringing about positive change in the ESL industry worldwide, and to ensure that English language development is more effective, rewarding and enjoyable for all learners.
Deborah Bauer Teacher
Deborah Bauer is a freelance Voice-Over Artist and Communications and Media professional. Her professional background is in Communications, particularly broadcasting as a commercial Radio Announcer and Voice-Over Artist. She has voiced and recorded countless commercials, on-hold messages, narrations, documentaries for TV and Radio, as well as character voices for audio books, videos, games and for websites etc.
In addition to this, Deborah is a Certified Trainer and has lectured in Communications, Media and Radio Broadcasting at various Registered Training Organisations, including TAFE. She enjoys working with people and can assist with Voice Training, developing the voice through voice-coaching in elocution, pronunciation, expression, voice projection, accent reduction as well as voice-over work and radio announcing.
Her expertise is to coach you to gain the powerful voice skills you desire. She can assist you in the development of your voice through specific expert courses involving:
· PERSONAL VOICE COACHING
· EXECUTIVE SPEECH TRAINING SKILLS
· CORPORATE VOICE TRAINING
· ACCENT REDUCTION
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