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TESOL Arabia is the premier education conference in the Middle East. 3 days of great presentations and exhibits – March 14th to 16th. Our Director of Education and Marketing manager will be attending the conference and extend an open invitation to meet those attending. EnglishCentral teachers or those interested in finding out more can fill […]
On EnglishCentral, we have 7 different levels. Our video lessons, the words on EnglishCentral and courses are all in certain levels. For video lessons and courses, we group levels Level 1-2 = Easy Level 3-4 = Medium Level 5-7 = Difficult For vocabulary we use a scale of 1 – 7 that students pre-select from […]
We get asked a lot about examples showing that EnglishCentral works – that it gets results and improves student fluency. It certainly does and we are building an impress library of testimonials and research papers. Teachers can also find many academic case studies in our Academic Use area. Here is a recent presentation created by […]
EnglishCentral is always innovating and keeping up with the times. In that vein, we will soon be launching our own moodle. We’ll be doing this as part of our attendance at the Moodle Moot Japan, March 2nd and 3rd, 2013. It will be a great weekend of showcasing our new Moodle and how schools and […]
When students speak a video lesson on EnglishCentral, we give them a speaking grade. The grade is cumulative and as students speak, we grade the lines and compile a grade. After a student finishes recording the whole video, the grade is final (but can be improved upon by repeating lines). We’ve recently changed the distribution […]
We are asked often to name the one thing EnglishCentral does best. There are a lot of benefits to using EnglishCentral and we aren’t shy about sharing them; motivating content that is current and up to date large amounts of graded listening (input) material vocabulary presented in context and at the students’ level allowing students […]
EnglishCentral’s speech enabled video player is enabling unlimited conversational speaking practice on “Gogakuru Can-do!” Gogakuru Can-do! is produced by NHK Basic English”, a service by NTT Learning Systems Corporation on the Android mobile platform. Starting from 31 January 31st 2013, Gogakuru Can-do! users (Junior High School students in Japan) will have access to EnglishCentral video […]
Often it might appear like a lot isn’t going on at EnglishCentral. Nothing further from the truth. We are abuzz with conferences, training sessions, brainstorming ideas, meetings and getting out and meeting the public. Here’s a nice presentation of photos showing our staff and others in “EnglishCentral action mode”. Rest assured, we are continuously sharing […]
This past week, we held a great webinar where we collected a lot of comments about EnglishCentral from teachers using it in their schools. A big thank you to all who attended! If you didn’t attend, you can see the recording here. We’d like to extend the invitation and would love it if teachers could […]
EnglishCentral keeps growing by leaps and bounds. As students speak and we gather speech data about 2nd language speakers from around the world, we become stronger at providing feedback and helping students. Today, we are happy to announce that the 100,000,000th line has been spoken on EnglishCentral. Yes that is right 100 million! The lucky […]
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