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What we know about learning.

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Effective Learning Methods


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(Ebbinghaus, 1885, Pimsleur, 1967, Leitner, 1972, Mondria, 1994)

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Language Learning

How EnglishCentral Drives Learning


60 different topics

Animals

Business

Celebrities

CEOs Children

Introductions

Telephone

Technology

Comedy

Companies

Culture

Daily Life Destinations

News

Obama

Politics

Dining

Education

Engineering

Environment

Finance

Shopping

Socializing

Sports

Funny Commercials

Getting Around

Google Health Interviews

TV

Video Games

Meeting People

Meetings

Movies

Music

Presentations Restaurants

Working

Famous Speeches

Inspiration

EnglishCentral Product


Authentic and Interesting

Rewind to previous line

Rewind to the beginning of the line

Play

Play in slow mode

Forward to next line



Watch

Game Over



EnglishCentral uses Game Dynamics to make the learning process fun!

This score bar will show the top 10 ranking students who recorded that video.

Game Dynamics

STIMs

more reliable and consistent feedback to learners



Dynamic Technology

[ ] Green : well-pronounced Yellow : mispronounced Red : not pronounced / not heard ! : Extra speech detected P: incorrect pause

- evaluate speech according to 40 different phonetic symbols

Speech Evaluation

- Evaluation result



Speech Evaluation

Video clips collect video lines which have the word studied in itself. Watching the video clips, you can study how a word is used in many different contexts.

Each words will have progress bar which shows the progress of learning the word and video clips which have the lines with the learned word in.



Video Corpus



There is a personal progress bar, which shows the number of videos watched and words learned. Also, you can check out your ranking.

the number of videos in progress

the number of words in progress

Track Progress



A course is professionally selected, structured series of videos and vocabulary quizzes. Courses cover topics ranging from the professional and academic to the more general: movies, commercials, famous speeches.

Ready to Go Courses

Manage your School, Classes and Groups

Buy Premium access for your students at large discounts

Create Video, Word and Sound assignments

Track individual student activity and performance

Teacher Tools

Core Features

Teacher Tools and Management

Core Features

A Custom Class Page

Set Goals. Set Deadlines.

Teachers’ Guide

Teachers’ Resources

In Class Ideas

¢  Set Context with Authentic Videos

¢  Study new words in multiple contexts

¢  Warm up with vocabulary review game

¢  Authentic Videos to introduce culture, tradition

¢  Prompt discussion of world events

¢  Demonstrate speech and presentations styles

¢  Wrap up lesson with language in use

¢  Create course for homework to promote self study

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General ESP

Blended Solution - Books

ABAX

eFuture

Garnet Education

Law Mechnical Engineering Banking Management Studies Psycology

Core Features

Access Cards

About EnglishCentral


Alan Schwartz

Founder and CEO



Alan Schwartz

Axel Bichara Partner in technology group

Mike Phillips Co-Founder & CTO of Vlingo

Rich Miner Partner at Google Ventures

Board Members


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TEAM

Innovative Dynamic Cutting Edge

All over the world


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Headquarter Boston, MA

Turkey Branch Ankara

Philippines Technical team

Korea Branch Seoul

Japan Branch Tokyo

Larry Gillick, Ph. D. Chief Scientist : directs R&D in speech assessment, language processing, and related technology

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Jon Marston Vice President of Engineering

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Sponsors


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Watch Learn Speak Take progress on every words learners watch, learn, and s

peak

Personalized Language Immersion

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Core Features

Courses

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