Babbel for Business supports companies’ online learning experiences with our famous blended learning method. We also support language learning in your business through offline inspiration in the form of language posters, which help to create a motivating and effective learning environment when placed strategically.
What Are Language Posters?
Language posters are visual tools used to aid language learning and promote language skills. They typically feature key vocabulary, grammar rules, language structures, and cultural information related to a specific language.
Language posters can be displayed in classrooms, language learning centers, or even at home to provide learners with a visual reference and reinforcement of language concepts. They are designed to be informative, engaging, and visually appealing, using images, colors, and typography to enhance the learning experience.
Language posters can cover various aspects of a language, such as vocabulary themes (e.g., food, animals, colors), grammar rules, verb conjugations, pronunciation guides, idioms, and more. They serve as a handy reference and can help learners remember and internalize language elements more effectively.
What Are the Advantages of Language Posters From Babbel for Business?
Each learning poster from Babbel for Business is dedicated to a learning-related theme—such as motivation or developing good study habits. It doesn’t matter which language your employees are learning: the universally applicable study tips on the posters provide a positive influence on the language learning environment of your business.
Each poster presents practical study tips and important learning principles in a clear and structured way. Through this visual information, your employees can absorb the poster’s contents easily and effectively.
3 Tips to Take Full Advantage of Your Language Posters
Tip 1: Place the language posters strategically
There are locations in your business where employees typically congregate or spend time waiting. This might be due to the architecture of your workplace or the way space is used, for example:
- in front of or in the elevator
- near the coffee machine
- near cupboards
- on a blackboard
- in a break room
Your employees are receptive to inspiration when they’re in these locations, and this offers you the ideal place to put learning posters. In this way, your employees will take the poster contents as a personal inspiration to study—and it can also bring the additional advantage of inspiring conversation.
Tip 2: Variety is key
Switch out the learning posters regularly, and put them up in new places. Your employees will notice them more and focus on what’s on the posters in a renewed way, and this provides you with an effective way to present new content to them.
Your employees will benefit from the variety of visual stimuli and—consciously or unconsciously—interact with the poster content. In addition, you can reintroduce previously known material in new contexts. As a result, the content is easier to remember and inspires language learning over and over again.
Tip 3: Combine the language poster content and its professional context
Another tip for using posters optimally involves a meaningful pairing of a poster’s content with its location. The details of how to do this depend on the unique characteristics of your business, but the following is helpful in a general sense:
- Hang a motivating poster in a place where your employees are active and will be inspired to put their newfound study inspiration to direct use. Good examples of such locations are entranceways and corridors.
- Hang a poster about building good study habits in a place where your employees carry out routine tasks and have time to reflect—such as the coffee machine or copier.
With the language posters from Babbel for Business, you’ll be providing your employees with offline inspiration for online language learning. You’ll also be creating a learning-friendly atmosphere and improving learning progress through usefully and strategically placed content. Ready to get started? Visit our website to contact our team and learn more about using language posters to achieve your language learning goals.
