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What We AreWhy EnglishCentral?Teacher Tools & Trial

Who We Are1.

HeadquarterBoston, MA

• Over 750,000 registered users• Over 20,000 registered teachers• Over 140 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 AdvisorProfessor 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

100s of schools and universities are using EnglishCentral

Korea

Turkey

Japan

Europe, Middle East & The Americas

and many more …

Our Academic Partners

USA Netherlands

Korea Japan

EnglishCentral In Action

What We Are2.

Engaging, authentic media

Scaffolding Noticing

Diagnostic speech feedback

Game dynamics

Personalized Language Learning

Watch | Learn | Speak | QuizOur Approach:

• The largest library of authentic, leveled language learning The largest library of authentic, leveled language learning video content video content

• Over 100 structured courses:Over 100 structured courses: Academic, Career, Business, Travel, Social and Media Academic, Career, Business, Travel, Social and Media

EnglishEnglish• All content leveled to global standardsAll content leveled to global standards Our Content Partners

Content and Curriculum

9,000+ authentic video lessons

50 new video lessons added / week

Business English13 topics1075 videos

Travel English9 topics1074 videos

Social English17 topics1752 videos

Media English13 topics1652 videos

Career English6 topics297 videos

Academic English5 topics623 videos

Engagement: Authentic Video Lessons

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

WATCH – our player with

scaffolding tools helps boost

learning and understanding

In-Context Word Definition by 1 click

Optional Caption

Bridging The Gap: Scaffolding Tools

SPEAK - compare you

speech at the sentence &

word level, analysis at

phoneme level

Bridging The Gap: Speech Feedback

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

Weekly Goal

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Manage the word

acquisition progress

Set weekly goal and

track the progress

Visual pronunciation report

Phoneme progress over time

Personalized Learning: Tracking Progress

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

Why EnglishCentral?

3.

Why Use EnglishCentral At Your School?

(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

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

1: A 15-minute spoken English test for adults0

2

4

6

8

<20 <42 ≥42

Hours per Semester

ΔVET

3rd Party Validation

What Teachers SayI personally think it’s the best site period for Englishlanguage 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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We help schools and teachers succeed

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

Set Goals and Select Video Curriculum

Track Student Achievement

9 detailed reports for any date range

“Listen In” to student recordings

Our Teacher Trial

We highly value our teachers and believe once you start using EnglishCentral, you’ll become a believer. So many already have!

All teachers get a free trial that they can start at any time they are ready. 50 Premium seats that can be assigned to give students Premium access.

Registered but didn’t get a chance to use your trial? Contact us and we’ll set you up!

Discounted Academic Pricing

Schools and teachers are our partners and get significantly discounted pricing. Please briefly tell us about your needs and we’ll provide you with a custom quote for your institution.

Our price per student is less than the cost of a textbook!

Go Premium: Our Academic PackFull access to all Premium features, video lessons and courses

Unrestricted use of our Learning Management System

Premium level Tier 1 Customer Service

1 or more Teacher Training sessions

teachers@

englishcentral.com

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