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This week Thursday, May 9th at 9am EST (view your local time) we’ll have a special webinar for teachers on “Using Video In The Classroom” It is a great subject and we’ll review the following in 40 min. or so. 1. Why use video? 2. Tips for using video 3. Examples of using video. 4. […]
English Camps are never easy for teachers! Long days, constant activity, noise, hot/cold, poor food ….. We sympathize. But camps can be a perfect time to get students learning immersively and there is no better tool than EnglishCentral. Students will also enjoy the “tech time” and benefit immensely. We’ve had many camp programs that prove […]
Of course, we are big fans of video. It is the new “text” and something that instantly engages students and transforms the language classroom into a place full of real, meaningful language. We have over 10,000 video lessons, all with transcripts and subtitles/text. Our video editors are second to none and they produce only the […]
We get lots of inquiries about our Academic pricing and how teachers may purchase access for their students or school / program. We eagerly answer all these inquiries, sending out pricing for your locality. Our philosophy is to work with each school or teacher and provide pricing that “works” for that school. So please don’t […]
We get a lot of emails asking about worksheets and downloadables for our videos. Presently, we provide the transcript for each video lesson and a few workbooks which can be used with our video lessons (go here). However, that’s not near enough for many teachers and we agree! We’ll be opening a resource sharing […]
Teachers value the help we give them and nothing can be more helpful than a comprehensive guide. Take a read through our Teachers’ Guide and learn in more detail about our amazing English language learning solution. It includes a complete section on how to use our learning management system – free to all teachers. Download […]
We have just published an updated version of our course catalog. View it here or download directly. Courses 2013
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 […]
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 […]
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