“What Is EnglishConnect for Missionaries?,” EnglishConnect Mission Leader Guide (2024)
“Overview,” EnglishConnect for Missionaries Leader Guide
What Is EnglishConnect for Missionaries?
“If you do not speak English, you should study it as a missionary. This will bless you during your mission and throughout your life. Learning English will also bless your family” (Preach My Gospel, 140).
EnglishConnect for Missionaries (ECM) helps missionaries learn English to bless their life during their mission and increase opportunities after their mission for service, employment, and academic opportunities—including BYU–Pathway Worldwide.
EnglishConnect has multiple levels to help learners progress from basic to intermediate English in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
EnglishConnect for Missionaries Experience “At a Glance”
Getting Started
Missionaries attend an orientation meeting and receive workbooks.
Daily Language Study
Missionaries use the manuals and resources to complete personal and companion practice activities.
Tracking Progress
Missionaries set goals, complete scheduled assessments, and evaluate their progress.
Certification
In their final transfer, missionaries complete the final assessment and receive their English speaking level certificate. They can use this certificate to increase opportunities for employment and education after their mission—including BYU–Pathway Worldwide.
“Please encourage missionaries who do not speak English to learn English even if they do not plan to apply for BYU–Pathway Worldwide” (Handbook for Mission Leaders, 2.7.2).
EnglishConnect for Missionaries serves multiple English levels:
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For Beginners: For missionaries who can understand very few or no words in English. They will use the information in the EnglishConnect Missionary Study Guide and the TALL Embark app to prepare for EnglishConnect 1.
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EnglishConnect 1: For missionaries who can read the English alphabet and can say basic words or memorized phrases. Prepares missionaries for EnglishConnect 2.
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EnglishConnect 2: For missionaries who can form basic sentences but struggle to hold a simple conversation. Prepares missionaries for EnglishConnect 3.
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EnglishConnect 3: For missionaries who can hold natural conversations and can read and write basic sentences. Prepares missionaries for BYU–Pathway Worldwide.
Each EnglishConnect level provides resources for individual and companion study. Study resources can be used with or without a native English-speaking companion. The EnglishConnect for Missionaries Study Guide, learner manuals, and audio files can be accessed on Gospel Library. Printed workbooks can be ordered from Church distribution. Supplemental online activities and assessments are available at missionary.englishconnect.org.
All young full-time missionaries completing their missionary service (including early-release and service missionaries) are preapproved for BYU–Pathway Worldwide and receive a tuition discount. When missionaries complete the EnglishConnect 3 online course or achieve a qualifying score on the English language assessment, they can waive the English admission assessment to BYU–Pathway Worldwide.