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Engage students with authentic, leveled video lessons, personalized learning, game dynamics, and speech feedback. Improve speaking skills and vocabulary acquisition. Supported by 3rd party validation. Rated highly by teachers.
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Our Philosophy “I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the studentsget interested.” Noam Chomsky “The best methods are therefore those that supply ‘comprehensible input’ in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear.” Stephen Krashen “Learning from context is so important that some studies suggest that first language learners learn most of their vocabulary in this way.” Paul Nation
Engaging, authentic media Scaffolding Noticing Diagnostic speech feedback Game dynamics Personalized Language Learning
Watch | Learn | Speak | Quiz Our Approach:
Content and Curriculum • The largest library of authentic, leveled language learning video content • Over 100 structured courses: Academic, Career, Business, Travel, Social and Media English • All content leveled to global standards Our Content Partners
Engagement: Authentic Video Lessons • 9,000+ authentic video lessons • 50 new video lessons added / week Academic English 5 topics 623 videos Media English 13 topics 1652 videos Career English 6 topics 297 videos Travel English 9 topics 1074 videos Social English 17 topics 1752 videos Business English 13 topics 1075 videos
Engagement: Game Dynamics Rewards system • Get rewards for every line of speech • Make progress by your study efforts Competitive Ranking • View your ranking by country, by class, by time • Improve ranking as you study more
Bridging The Gap: Pedagogy “What learners notice in input is what becomes intake for learning.” - Schmidt, (1995) EnglishCentral makes you notice and bridge the gap to enable understanding
Bridging The Gap: Scaffolding Tools • WATCH – our player with scaffolding tools helps boost learning and understanding In-Context Word Definition by 1 click Optional Caption
Bridging The Gap: Speech Feedback • SPEAK - compare you speech at the sentence & word level, analysis at phoneme level
Personalized Learning: Pedagogy Students who spend time working with the target language at their appropriate level, make the most progress. EnglishCentral allows you to make the most progress at your appropriate level
Personalized Learning: Student Interest Students choose the topics they like • Filter by topic, by level, by popularity • Favorite your videos for later study • Build your own word list • Recommendations based on your interest 9,000+ videos 100+ courses
Vocabulary Acquisition Review the words at spaced time intervals enables the learner to achieve long-term, instant-recall ability. EnglishCentral enables you to master words by reviewing them at spaced time intervals
Vocabulary Acquisition Spaced Repetition Quiz 5 Times Mastered The word waits until next review Quiz the word
#1 With Students EnglishCentral rates far above 9 other online providers (5: strongly agree, 4: agree, 3: no opinion, 2: disagree, 1: strongly disagree)
Improvement: It Works In 10 weeks, students following EnglishCentral’s program improve their speaking by 8 percentiles against their L1 peers
3rd Party Validation 1: A 15-minute spoken English test for adults • Assessment: Pearson Versant Evaluation Test1 • 200 Japanese university freshman used EC over a 14 week period • Students evaluated before and after to compare the amount of studying at EC and the increase VET scores • Conclusions • Students who studied more than 42 hours increased their Versant score by 7 points
What Teachers Say • I personally think • it’s the best site • period for English • language learners. • It provides listening, speaking, and reading practice — all in an extremely engaging way. • Larry Ferlazzo • Websites Of The Day
