Education 2.0 Vs Education 3.0- Awesome Chart. Onwards Learning – The English Language Learning Market in 2013 & Beyond. The worldwide language learning market, comprising all languages, was worth US $58.2 billion as of 2011.
Adoption of cost-efficient technology-based products and increased migration away from classroom and print products are key drivers in a strong growing market. A significant part of the future demand lies in English language learning products, which generated US $35.9 billion in 2011 (offline and online combined). This equates with 61.7% of the total language learning market, making it the largest concentrated revenue opportunity in the international language learning market. These are some of the main findings of a report by Ambient Insight, an international market research firm specialising in e-learning and mobile learning. (Note: When the total market of $58.2bn is combined with revenues from language services such as localisation, interpretation, and translation, this figure jumps to US $82.6 billion). Rosetta Stone Buys Up Online Language Learning Community Livemocha For $8.5M In Cash.
The languages of the U.S. — in one map. The Fix is (mildly) obsessed with maps -- always have been -- particularly ones that tell us something interesting about the country and its politics.
That's why the map below, which details the leading languages, other than English, spoken in the home in each county across the country, is so fascinating. Who knew that Italian was so popular in a county in southeastern Montana? Want to Learn a Foreign Language? 6 Excellent Benefits of Considering a Language Exchange. How Immersion Helps to Learn a New Language. The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Sistema Educativo de Reino Unido. Duolingo Raises $15M Series B Round Led By NEA, Will Expand To More Languages And To Mobile Soon.
Duolingo, the language learning and crowd-sourced translation service founded by reCAPTCHA founder and Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn, just announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by NEA, with participation from Union Square Ventures.
The service never took any angel funding, but it raised a $3.3 million Series A round lead by Union Square Ventures last October. Ashton Kutcher and author Tim Ferris also participated in that round. As von Ahn told me in an interview earlier this month, the company plans to mostly use this new round of financing to expand its team in order to support more languages. Review of Some Language Learning Communities: Busuu, Livemocha, LingQ, and Hello-Hello. Lately I’ve been using several language learning communities online to see what they offer and how expensive their pay materials are.
Personally, I was most interested in finding sites that offered free audio flashcards for learning vocabulary (preferably with pictures) and less so in finding a teacher or language exchange partner. I just wanted to learn some vocabulary (and how to pronounce the words) online since my main focus on learning languages in the beginning stages is to simply understand what people are saying, and to be able to say a few phrases to get around while traveling. I don’t worry so much about forming grammatically correct sentences or having long conversations just yet. A few of the sites I came across were solely for finding teachers, some did not offer any or much free material, and a few were almost exactly what I was looking for.
Busuu.com. Review of Language Learning Websites II: Mango Languages, LangMaster, LinguaTV, and Yabla. Six months ago I posted my thoughts on the popular language learning sites Livemocha, Busuu, LingQ and Hello-Hello.
Now I would like to review four other language learning websites that I have used recently. The previous four sites were “communities” where not only can you use their flashcards and exercises, you create a profile and interact with other languages learners on the site via chat or messaging. Being Bilingual: Beneficial Workout for the Brain - Research. By David L.
Wheeler Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate, a series of scientific findings has shown. Can foreign languages go digital with online education? - ICEF MonitorICEF Monitor: Market intelligence for international student recruitment. Today, enrolment in online courses is growing at a faster rate than that of higher education overall, and more schools are striving to increase their web-based programmes.
However, while many courses made an easy transition to online instruction, educators have struggled to create high-quality, foreign language courses and even foreign language degree programmes offered exclusively over the Internet. Recent articles from US News & World Report and Inside Higher Ed provide several examples of schools experimenting with online language learning models. New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven' 10 June 2012Last updated at 16:38 GMT Labour's Stephen Twigg backed the government plan for languages Learning a foreign language will be compulsory from the age of seven in England's primary schools in an overhaul of the national curriculum, the education secretary is to announce.
Michael Gove will also say later this week that children as young as five will be expected to recite poetry. There will also be a new focus on spelling and grammar. The plans will be put out to public consultation later in the year, ahead of a scheduled introduction in 2014. The proposals come amid concerns over a decline in pupils taking foreign languages at GCSE. En Francais: The rise of England's bilingual schools. 25 August 2012Last updated at 19:05 ET By Emma Kasprzak BBC News.
Aumentan los recursos educativos en internet, pero falla la orientación. Una web que enseña solfeo, una aplicación para aprender matemáticas a través de la arquitectura, una red social de intercambio de libros digitales, una página que mezcla colores y formas geométricas...
La red contiene ya miles de recursos educativos al alcance de cualquiera, no sólo de la escuela. En casa, alumnos y padres también pueden aprovechar toda la información que ofrece internet para complementar su educación, sobre todo en verano, cuando pasan más tiempo juntos. Pero la oferta digital es tan grande que a la vez genera confusión entre las familias. Beneficios del aprendizaje temprano de idiomas. Incorporar a edades tempranas un nuevo idioma ofrece grandes ventajas a los niños. ¿Cuándo deben comenzar a estudiar idiomas? Estudios demuestran que en el proceso de aprendizaje se activan mecanismos naturales que los niños tienen más desarrollado para la adquisición de lenguas, la capacidad de aprendizaje es mayor, es por eso que cada vez se enseñan idiomas más temprano en los centros escolares.
Una experiencia lingüística e intercultural cuyos beneficios formativos son el desarrollo cognitivo, social, lingüístico, acústico y personal, lo que incluye cualidades como la perseverancia, participación y autoestima de los alumnos. How important are slang and idioms in language learning?