Three Pillars of Online English Learning
To be efficient Online English learning must incorporate Mobile App and Online Group Classes. The three pillars add the following features to Online English Learning:
1. Mobile App Active Learning of English skills make it interactive and suitable for self-study 24/7 without being connected to the Internet. Mobile App allows new lessons to be added according to the interests and vocational needs of the learners.
2. Online Group Classes help resolve any issues which learners may have due to the lack of face-to-face interaction in traditional online learning. The classes allow resolution of group problems by using a student-centered approach when the teacher acts as a facilitator or final authority.
Online learning portals are exceptionally popular; they have completely changed the scenery of academic education, corporate training, and individual self-education. Unfortunately, these portals often include English online learning along with hundreds of other subjects and vocational courses.
This is despite the fact that language is a skill, similar to learning to drive a car or playing a sport, and therefore it must be acquired through practice. The problem arises in the lack of consensus on what the practice should involve. The traditional methods dissect the language into individual components and teach listening, reading, writing, pronunciation, speaking, and grammar separately. As the Learning Pyramid demonstrates, learning separate language components represents passive learning. In passive learning, a learner needs to spend four or five years of hard work to speak English fluently.
In learning any subject or course we try to consciously memorize information provided in an online course. When learning English, we would be much better off if we use the subconscious Active Learning of English skills patented in the USA in 2017 and described on this website www.lbtechnology.net.
Mobile App offers the following features:
1. Active Learning of English skills by performing three actions simultaneously: reading the text, listening to the recording, and speaking it at the same time. It helps the learners to interact with the material according to their learning style. It automatically turns off the innate habit of cross-translating into the native language when listening to or speaking in English.
2. The Active Learning implemented in the application precludes learning of separate words or components of English, like listening skills without reading or conversational skills. Instead, the Active Learning creates an environment for acquiring all language skills concurrently. The mobile app facilitates acquiring language patterns and intuitive grammar while the learner re-enacts comprehensible situations exclusively in English.
3. Providing support in the native language and contextual translation. Support in the native language ensures a stress-free environment and comprehensible input. Translation of all lessons and drills is organized in a way that eliminates cross-translation: contextual translation (only one word) appears for a limited time while learners hear the English pronunciation of the passage.
4. EFL beginners don't recognize English phonemes and require Special English. The mobile application uses Special English for the first ten lessons to help adults recognize, then imitate, and finally, produce English phonemes. After that, regular English speech is used for active learning of English skills.
5. Add new lessons to the application according to the learners’ interests or vocational needs. The mobile application lets learners add material of their own selection to each pre-recorded lesson by copying and pasting (or manually entering) text and using the high-quality voice robot to perform the simultaneous repetition of the new material.
6. Priming Implicit Memory that sets the stage for learners to start the subconscious process of Active Learning by invoking “retention without remembering.” It exposes the learner to a word cloud of the words being introduced in a lesson while they listen to relaxation music for about 60 seconds.
7. Testing active vocabulary is built into every lesson. Learners take a test after they complete each lesson by putting on earphones with a microphone and saying a few sentences on any topic from their past experience, prompted by the word that drops down randomly from the word cloud. Learners use earphones with a microphone for both self-study and guided learning to ensure high audio quality during both simultaneous repetition and testing.
Built-in reading and speaking fluency tests, along with testing active vocabulary, provide gamification elements and keep the learner engaged. Responding quickly during tests helps learners develop the habit of automatic speech by pushing them to think directly in English.
8. Use of social networking and guided learning. The learner’s speaking is recorded, and he has the option of sharing it via social networking or by attaching it to an email for sharing with a teacher. The program automatically determines the learner's reading fluency and gives recommendations for improving reading skills.
9. An inspiring poem, recorded by a native speaker, is included in each lesson. At the end of each lesson, the learners find the poem and, after a few repetitions, remember the poem by heart (the same way they learn a song by listening to it several times) since it resonates with their vision and feelings.
10. Simultaneous repetition is a well-known technique in the Chinese Martial Arts. Bringing simultaneous repetition into Active Learning of English Skills corresponds both to Chinese culture and to the learning habits of digital natives, who prefer self-study using their mobile devices to boring lectures of English teachers about the language. It is easier to become fluent in English with an Active Learning application and rewarding to see much faster results. Adults may acquire fluency in English in less than twelve months, due to the synergy of the latest technology and the new pedagogy of Active Learning of English skills.
To make English online learning exceptionally productive we need to shift the focus from large slices of prepared and predigested information to the synergy of three pillars of online English learning which practice Active Learning of English skills. Group online class offers active dialog among the participants and the teacher in a virtual classroom.
Three pillars of Online English Learning will help you speak fluently in about 12 months.
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