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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 […]
Hi everyone! Charlie here! I’m EnglishCentral’s Chief Linguist and Pedagogy advisor and as you may or may not know, much of what we do here at EC is based on key principles and research findings in the area of second language acquisition. One of the most important ones that informs the way we implement our […]
We have two basic settings for speaking our videos. 1. Focused speaking where you speak only the lines with words you studied in LEARN 2. Non focused speaking where students speak the whole video. This is for both videos lessons not in a course or in a course. It is easy to select either […]
Often, many teachers get intimidated by technology and using it with students. With EnglishCentral, we take this fear away. Students have most of the control and setting up your class on our free Learning Management System (Teacher Tools) is a simple affair. Plus, all teachers have access to helpful video tutorials, guides and staff. Don’t […]
We really encourage teachers to set goals for their students. It can really motivate them to study and also teachers can track student goal achievement by week or month in the Reports (using the Overall Grade Report). We recommend the following goals / week. We’ve improved our goal setting this week by allowing teachers to […]
It’s summer time and who doesn’t want to look good in the summer? We’ve just “come out” with an improved, clean and functional look. Please take a look, we know you’ll improve. Here are some of the highlights. 1. Better browsing of our huge library of 1,000s of videos for learning English. Search by difficulty […]
We have two new “completely free” Starter Courses in our Course Library. Celebrities and Guinness World Records. Both will be available soon as full courses for your study/teaching pleasure! What is a “Starter Course”? A Starter Course is a free way to preview our full length courses. The show you exactly what you can expect […]
Your account page is where you go to control all your settings on EnglishCentral. In one handy place you can: 1. Change your name/password and profile photo 2. Control email contact by EnglishCentral 3. Become “invisible’ on our public rankings 4. Change your vocabulary/video language level 5. Upgrade your account to that of a teacher […]
On EnglishCentral we track everything language related that you do. This includes the videos you’ve studied or are in the process of studying. Just go to the video browse page when logged in and look at the top left part of the page. Students can see all their videos in progress and all the videos […]
Vocabulary along with speaking is our strength. We track EVERY word you Watch / Speak or Learn on EnglishCentral. We offer you the ability to study vocabulary at your selected level and either the words related to the video you Watched / Spoke or words related to a topic/theme. We also have so many other […]
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