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Easy Listening

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Did you know that you can learn English with songs on EnglishCentral? Music is something everyone enjoys and it’s a powerful way to learn or teach English.  The music video lessons produced on EnglishCentral are specially chosen so they are slow, repetitive and meaningful for English language learning. Also, just plain great songs! Here’s our  list…

Making A Difference

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EnglishCentral doesn’t just sell a product. We support universities, teachers, learners, companies and organizations around the world to achieve their goals – helping them teach and learn English. That’s job #1. We’ve supported hundreds of  students and schools internationally with scholarships. We’d like to highlight one person we’ve worked with, who has made and is continuing…

EnglishCentral Study Tips

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We have a lot that students can do on EnglishCentral.   Many students don’t find out what they can do beyond Watch | Learn | Speak | Quiz of the videos. Here’s a few suggestions to help students  learning English on our world leading platform. #1  Speak the whole video!  We set our player with…

Ted Talks

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Many advanced students benefit from watching and studying the best TED Talks on EnglishCentral. We now have a course of all our best TED videos so students can study them in one handy place.  View the course >>>> You can find all our hundreds of TED Talks video lessons through our video search feature.

The Top 5 Strategies To Increase Student Engagement Online

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This article by our CEO and Founder,  Alan Schwartz originally appeared on Xconomy. Read the original here. Good teachers often say that “95 percent of good teaching is just getting students motivated.” Online learning presents a new opportunity to both measure engagement and create learning methods that increase it. Facebook sets the high bar for…