The latest and greatest social network appears to be Google+. If you aren’t familiar with Google+ the short story is that it’s Google’s latest attempt to get into the social networking game (in other words, it’s Google’s answer to Facebook). If you aren’t familiar with Google+, this post will fill you in on the details. [...]
Teachers – Let ESLai know what you think
May 27th, 2011
English teachers have been using the ESLai conversational simulation apps in class (here’s an introduction to the apps) and getting good feedback from students. Here’s one quote from Marina in Ukraine: I’ve tried your programme with my university and private students. All my students liked it, especially the dialogue in the pizzeria (I don’t know [...]
Ranking of English Proficiency around the World
May 18th, 2011
For all of your info-hungry, English learning stats needs here is a fantastic info graphic providing English proficiency levels around the world. Many thanks to those at EF Englishtown who were kind enough to point this out, AND hats off for this treasure trove of information on the English language learning industry around the world!
Membean – Get those words into your bean!
Apr 27th, 2011
Today I had the pleasure of meeting up with Membean – a great new start-up here in the Portland area. They’ve devised a killer application for all of those test takers cramming away for the SAT or GRE (and hopefully TOEFL, TOEIC and IELTS in the future). Instead of just banging the new vocabulary into [...]
ESLai: Learning English with a Turing Test
Apr 12th, 2011
A 2010 survey released by Speak Up last year, and covered by Read Write Web, still has me thinking. What does it mean that 20% of children in kindergarten through second grade have their own cellphones? What do they do with these devices? The kindergartners can’t be texting because most of them can’t read yet, [...]
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- Here is a list of the top 170 English vocabulary items for the service industry.
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