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Teach English with the World’s Best Videos
Who We Are
Table Of Contents
What We Are Why EnglishCentral? Teacher Tools & Trial
Who We Are 1.
HeadquarterBoston, MA
• Over 2,000,000 registered users • Over 40,000 registered teachers • Over 200 million lines of speech recorded
Turkey OfficeAnkara
Korea OfficeSeoul Japan Office
Tokyo
Philippines Technical
Team
Corporate Background
Alan Schwartz, Founder and CEO 12 years of experience in speech recognition with AT&T Labs, SpeechWorks and Nuance. He led Nuance's Mobile & Automotive business as VP & General Manager. He then served as the VP for Nuance's Asia Pacific and Japan operations. Alan began his career as an English Teacher in China.
Alan Schwartz
Dr. Charles Browne, Pedagogical Advisor Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the EFL Teacher Training Program at Meiji Gakuin University. Past Director of Sony Language Laboratories, National Chairperson of the JET Program. He publishes widely on the topics of English education in Japan, Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition, and CALL.
David Deubelbeiss, Director of Education Professor of Education, Nipissing University, Canada, Professor, Ewha Graduate School of TESOL, S.Korea. Technology leader, teacher trainer, blogger and edupreneur. ELT curriculum specialist publishing extensively both online and offline materials.
Dr. Charles Browne
David Deubelbeiss
Pedagogical Leadership
“I think about ninety percent of the problem in teaching, or maybe ninety-eight percent, is just to help the students get interested.”
Noam Chomsky
Stephen Krashen
“The best methods are therefore those that supply ‘comprehensible input’ in low anxiety situations, containing messages that students really want to hear.”
“Learning from context is so important that some studies suggest that first language learners learn most of their vocabulary in this way.”
Paul Nation
Our Philosophy
200s of schools and Universities are using EnglishCentral
University of FukuiSchool wide adoption
Kwansei Gakuin UniversitySchool wide adoption
Prefectural University of KumamotoSchool wide adoption
Miyagi UniversitySchool wide adoption
Dokkyo UniversityDepartment wide adoption
Kyoto Sangyo UniversitySchool wide adoption
USA Netherlands
Korea Japan
EnglishCentral In Action
What We Are 2.
Engaging, authentic media
Scaffolding Noticing
Diagnostic speech feedback
Game dynamics
Personalized Language Learning
Watch | Learn | Speak | Quiz Our Approach:
• 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
Content and Curriculum
| 10,000+ authentic video lessons!
| 50 new video lessons added/week
Rewards system
Competitive Ranking
Get rewards for every line of speech
Make progress by your study efforts
View your ranking by country, by class, by time
Improve ranking as you study more
Engagement: Game Dynamics
“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: Pedagogy
EnglishCentral allows you to make the most progress at your appropriate level
Students who spend time working with the target language at their appropriate level, make the most progress.
Personalized Learning: Pedagogy
Students choose the topics they like
100+ courses
9,000+ videos
Filter by topic, by level, by popularity
Favorite your videos for later study
Build your own word list
Recommendations based on your
interest
Personalized Learning: Student Interest
EnglishCentral enables you to master words by reviewing them at spaced time intervals
Review the words at spaced time intervals enables the learner to achieve long-term, instant-recall ability.
Vocabulary Acquisition
Quiz the word
Quiz 5 Times
Mastered The word waits
until next review
Vocabulary Acquisition
Spaced Repetition
EnglishCentral helps you improve the poor pronunciation that you
don’t notice.
Pronunciation Focus
Pronunciation Diagnosis based on students’ speaking practice
Phoneme progress over time
Pronunciation course for each phoneme
Why EnglishCentral? 3.
Why Use EnglishCentral At Your School?
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Continue? 3.6 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 3.0 2.7 2.9 2.8 2.7
Enjoy? 4.0 3.6 3.7 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.2
Effective? 4.4 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.3 3.5 3.6 3.4
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(5: strongly agree, 4: agree, 3: no opinion, 2: disagree, 1: strongly disagree)
EnglishCentral rates far above 9 other online providers
#1 With Students
In 10 weeks, students following EnglishCentral’s program improve their speaking by 8 percentiles against their L1 peers
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Weeks of Practice
Student Pronunciation Improvement
Improvement: It Works
• 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
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3rd Party Validation
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
Teacher Tools & Free Trial
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Our “Teacher Tools” make it easy to set up your class page, select video
curriculum and get students studying.
Our Learning Management System
A Custom Class Page
Track Student Achievement
9 detailed reports for any date range
