We are an association of foreign language specialists, led by Company Director Viv Gatley. We have wide teaching experience and a deep regard for the particular needs of English-speaking learners, especially in Britain.

All our tutors are professionally qualified in the required language (many are native speakers of the target language), all are professionally qualified to teach, and all are particularly interested in the psychology of learning and in creating a low threat environment.

Viv Gatley was brought up bilingual, and she has had more than 35 years of teaching languages to people of all ages from 6 to 70, in all types of school and in industry. When Head of Modern Languages, she specialised in integrating Art (the visual) with the teaching of languages, and in Learning Through Doing (the Froebel method). This combination proved to be immensely successful, hence the use by ALLS of practical, “workshop style” training, which is entirely relevant to adult learners.

Viv studied the psychology of learning as a major element of her academic qualifications, and she enjoys putting it into practice. Hence the ALLS emphasis on developing in students a new self-confidence and self-esteem, centred on the successful acquisition of language learning skills.