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Who We Are 1.

Headquarter Boston, MA Over 750,000 registered users Over 20,000 registered teachers Over 140 million lines of speech recorded Turkey Office Ankara Korea Office Seoul 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

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100 s of schools and universities are using EnglishCentral Korea Turkey Japan Europe, Middle East & The Americas and many more … Our Academic Partners

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 The largest library of authentic, leveled language learning video content Over 100 structured courses: Over 100 structured courses: Academic, Career, Business, Travel, Social and Media English Academic, Career, Business, Travel, Social and Media English All content leveled to global standards All content leveled to global standards Our Content Partners Content and Curriculum

9,000+ authentic video lessons 50 new video lessons added / week Business English 13 topics 1075 videos Travel English 9 topics 1074 videos Social English 17 topics 1752 videos Media English 13 topics 1652 videos Career English 6 topics 297 videos Academic English 5 topics 623 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 Test 1 –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 V ersant score by 7 points 1: A 15-minute spoken English test for adults 3 rd 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 4.

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 p ricing. 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 Pack  Full 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

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