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Dr. Charles Browne outlines key principles for effective personal language immersion, emphasizing comprehensible input, authentic content, personalized learning, and the use of scaffolding tools. He highlights methods such as vocabulary building through flashcards, noticing the gap for learning, and setting goals for progress tracking. The document advocates for a structured approach to online language learning, showcasing a platform that enhances listening, speaking, and reading skills.
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- 1. Personal Language Immersion: Watch to learn, learn to speak Dr. Charles Browne Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director EFL Teacher Training Program Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan
- 2. Key teaching principlesto online…
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- 4. Comprehensible Input… Krashen’s “rules”… • Input should be understandable • Input should be interesting • Input should be authentic • Input should be a lot!....
- 5. Comprehensible Input… (Filter your videos and vocabulary by level)
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- 7. Authentic Content… (literally THOUSANDSof interesting choices!...)
- 8. Content Is King Authentic Content… (working together with some amazing companies!)
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- 10. Personalized Learning… (Choosingjust the topics you like/are interested in
- 11. Personalized Learning… (Save yourfavorite words and videos for later study)
- 12. Personalized Learning… (Detailed trackingof pronunciation problems & progress)
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- 14. Scaffolding Tools… (Support in many languages)
- 15. Scaffolding Tools… (Captioning, RepeatFunction,Voice Speed Contols)
- 16. Scaffolding Tools… (clickable dictionarywith sample sentences and pronunciation)
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- 18. Corpus Analysis…. (of everyword and phoneme in every video!)
- 19. Corpus Analysis…. (of everyword and phoneme in every video!)
- 20. Corpus Analysis…. (of everyword and phoneme in every video!)
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- 22. Vocabulary Building… (Flashcards contextualizedin authetic videos)
- 23. Vocabulary Building… (multiple aspectsof word knowledge built over time) Definition matching… Cloze testing… Spelling practice…
- 24. Vocabulary Building… (Spaced-repetion systemdoes detailed tracking every session)
- 25. 7. “Noticing theGap” ‘what learners notice in input is what becomes intake for learning’ (Schmidt, 1995).
- 26. “Noticing the Gap” 1) Listen to authentic English 2) Record your voice 3) Get instant feedback and “notice the gap”
- 27. “Noticing the Gap” (compareat the word level, analysis at phoneme level)
- 28. Make It Official! 8. Making it Official!
- 29. Set Goals. SetDeadlines. Set Class Goals,Content & Deadlines…
- 30. Set Goals. SetDeadlines. Set Class Goals,Content & Deadlines…
- 31. Set Goals. SetDeadlines. Set General Learning Goals (Learners choose videos or pick a specific course)
- 32. Set Goals. SetDeadlines. Set Class Goals,Content & Deadlines…
- 33. Tools for Teachers… TeacherTools Manage your School, Buy Premium access for your Classes and Groups students at large discounts Create Video, Word Track individual student and Sound assignments activity and performance
- 34. Use and Modelin Class…
- 35. Or as homeworkand watch their progress online… See the SPECIFIC phonemic difficulties of your students! Track all progress on their vocabulary study!
- 36. ―In my opinion,English Central was far and away the best new EFL / ESL site this year.‖ Jeffrey Hill – The English Blog 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
- 37. You know theold expression….?
- 38. Maybe the newexpression should be…. A a day, keeps the away!
- 39. Thank You! Dr. Charles Browne Professor of Applied Linguistics, Director EFL Teacher Training Program Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo Japan
Editor's Notes
- #34 EnglishCentral also offers a suite of Tools which help Teachers to guide their Students learning experiences. We just this week released an update that: Makes it easy to set up Schools, Classes & Groups and to invite your Students to join Buy Premium access at discounted prices Next month, we will be introducing a major upgrade of our Assignment and Reporting tools, which will enable Teachers to: create specific assignments on EnglishCentral and get automatic reports on Student performance of them. So please stay tuned for this. Meanwhile, I encourage you to join our Teacher Forums for more details and discussion of how EC is being used in and out of classrooms and computer labs all over the world.
- #35 Then, EnglishCentral provides opportunities for remediation through expert help content like sound formation and…Focused practice sessions wherein lines from different videos in our corpus that have a high density of a particular phoneme are featured.
- #37 So, I hope you like what I’ve said and shown, but don’t just take my word for it. Here are what some of your colleagues are saying.