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Главная » NEWS » 30. 09. 2018

CONVERTING TODAY'S NEWS STORIES into online English lessons

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 AI-based software technology creates a unique user experience for ELL by automatically converting today’s news stories (content) into online English lessons that are pedagogically structured, levelled for proficiency and gamified (badges, points, and a global leaderboard) For free.

 Mike Elchik is a founder and president of WeSpeke, a global language technology company based in Pittsburgh in the USA and affiliated with the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University, the USA’s top-ranked school for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Their work is being applied globally in partnerships with CNN and The Wall Street Journal / Dow Jones. For example and reference, today's CNN news stories are today's English lessons on the app en.news - https://www.en.news (you can change the interface language from the drop-down menu in the footer).

Every day, they access the news feed and generate English lessons, virtually instantly, so people around the world can combine their existing habits of consuming media with the utility of learning English. You can find more info and a short video here: http://www.wespeke.com/partners/en-news/.

To give you a sense of the global reach of en.news, this link takes you to the leaderboard with the daily lessons taken by English learners worldwide: https://www.en.news/leaderboard/today/1.

They are really excited that edge-case English learners are spending +6 hours every day immersed in authentic English content on en.news! Here is just some of the feedback they've heard from users of our mobile apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store: ★★★★★ It is very complete, it helps you to develop reading comprehension and to acquire vocabulary while familiarizing yourself with grammar.

★★★★★ The best and complete app to learn English. If you already have a basic this will boost you!

★★★★★ Perfect! Studying in an organized way is what I was looking for.

★★★★★ Amazing! You can read the news, practice the words, see definitions and say the words and the app check out if is correct. I highly recommend it.

★★★★★ Learning English and getting up to date with world news has never been so easy, has it?

★★★★★ Very good... I learn English and in passing I read news of what is happening in the world.

★★★★★ It is an excellent app, very complete and easy to use. The best option to learn English.

★★★★★ Excellent application, I have been able to increase my vocabulary and improve my "listening".

★★★★★ Your application (en.news) can help me to achieve a good proficiency level for IELTS.

★★★★★ Very good application I have tried many ... and this is very complete.

★★★★★ This is the best app ever! While you’re learning english, you are reading news! Isn’t that perfect?

★★★★★ The best app of all to learn the (English) language.

It will also be of interest to you that en.news has a Learning Management System (LMS) for English teachers, which can be accessed at https://teachers.en.news. This LMS allows English teachers to build a roster of their classes, assign English lessons based on news stories, and track student progress (e.g. lessons taken, average score, time on task, questions missed, etc.).

Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues and anyone interested in English teaching and English learning.

His team and Michael Elchik (CEO & President ceo@wespeke.net) himself are available at any time to answer your questions or, provide additional detail if you are further interested.

http://www.wespeke.com | @wespeke