Next Education's EnglishLab is a formal lab where students can practice and improve skills in English language. Aimed at classes III to X across schools in India, Next Education's EnglishLab is a technological breakthrough to impart English language skills using an engaging audio-visual set up. Our rich content amalgamated with interactive tools not only provides motivating learning environment but also creates a positive learning attitude towards English.
The product stresses on the four skills to communicate effectively in any language - Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW). It carries a unique blend of teaching methods – it broadly consists of Instructor Led Training (ILT) to be conducted in a normal classroom style and a Computer Based Training (CBT) wherein individual students can learn independently.
Designed for India
EnglishLab is designed keeping the requirements of Indians in mind. Right from the content to the look and feel of product, it is designed for the Indian audience.The content is made relevant to the Indian audience paying utmost importance to accent and practical examples for improving conversational skills.
Highly Interactive:
EnglishLab offers a rich interactive experience that incorporates many audio-visual elements. Using EnglishLab students will be able to converse in grammatically correct language in their daily lives in various scenarios. The tool also helps students improve their vocabulary teaching them practical contexts and usage of new words.
Modular Structure:
The structure of EnglishLab consists of eight progressive levels specially designed for the academic system followed by schools. The modular structure allows teachers to customize the learning for various standards in a school's system.
Instructor Led Teaching (ILT) requires a teacher's guidance to impart English language skills to a class. ILT consists of virtual activities, digital content and exercises that impart the usage of English in real-life scenarios. In these sessions, the teacher takes the lead and emphasizes the relevance of grammar, vocabulary, sentence formation in English.
ILT also offers interesting to-do activities such as group discussions, role-plays, conversational exercises, free-speech activities that adds a completely new dimension towards learning English. ILT is designed such that teacher lays the foundation of concepts in the class, and the same is reinforced through various student centric activities in the 'Computer Based Training'.
The ILT and CBT sessions run in a parallel fashion to ensure the students avail maximum mileage from the solution.
Computer-Based Teaching (CBT) allows students to work individually on their system without the fear of matching up with other students in the class.
CBT is a medium for individual students to perfect their language skills through verbal, visual and audio-visual exercises at their own pace. For example, in speech sounds, students have several practice activities where they can practice words by listening to the correct pronunciation, recording their voice and comparing their recording with the correct pronunciation. Students gain much better clarity on aspects such as pronunciation and word usage. The solution is structured even as it allows individual teachers to blend various elements and direct the flow of their students' learning process.
Self-Assessment
EnglishLab provides several self-evaluation tools such as the 'Listen-Record-Compare' feature that provides a unique opportunity for learners to assess themselves. Using head phones and the EnglishLab software on a PC, students can perfect their pronunciation by practicing interesting exercises. Additionally, learners overcome regional influences by listening and practicing neutral accents making their communication more effective.
The solution also includes a performance report engine that allows students to track their progress and generate personalized performance reports. Further, teachers can use these reports to monitor the progress of their class.
Workbooks
The EnglishLab workbooks are designed to help students understand the importance of using the right word at the right time in the correct context. Workbooks merge the ILT and CBT by allowing teachers to introduce a concept and letting students to practice. Our workbook's holistic approach covers topics such as word usage, tenses, pronunciation and modulation. The workbooks strengthen concepts as CBT helps a student assess himself.
Teacher Manuals
EnglishLab also includes teacher manuals that guide a teacher on how to use the modules and customized exercises to address specific weaknesses of students. The manuals specifically indicate what aspect the teacher needs to stress in each module and concept. It also helps the teacher impart the content in such a way that it's suitable for an Indian audience.
Reports
Teacher can keep track of the performance of each student as the scores of CBT modules are stored in the software. They can also make own exercises in the software so that unique conceptual gaps and learning needs of a student are met.
