The End of Online Learning – the Beginning of Mobile Acquisition of

Language SkillsArkady Zilberman, Ph. D.

Big picture:

•1.5 billion people speak English in the world

•Non-native speakers outnumber native English speakers by three to one

•Digital natives have taken control of the learning process.

•One world. Many languages. No barrier.

Solution

• Acquiring language skills is much faster than learning

• Concurrent triple activity is turning off cross-translation

• Intuitive, interactive, experiential application for subconscious training

Problem • Unprecedented growth of English

• After five+ years of learning no communication skills

• Gap between technology and pedagogy

Passive

Learning

ActiveAcquisition

Why Acquisition?• The natural way of picking up EFL skills by subconscious

training• Teacher is coach or guide sharing the stage with the learners • Active speaking 5-10 times more than in a conventional class• Acquiring language patterns and intuitive grammar• Speaking without reverting to cross-translation

• Priming implicit memory

• Observe the list of words while relaxation music is played for about a minute

• Adult learners show improved performance after being subconsciously prepared

• Support in Mandarin ensures a stress-free environment and comprehensible input.

• Support eliminates cross-translation by showing contextual translation for ten seconds only.

• Learners start speaking actively before they have learned the rules of grammar or memorized lists of words.

• Multimodal acquisition: read the text; listen to recording, and speak at the same time.

• LBT uses Special English to help adults in recognizing, imitating and producing

the English phonemes.

• Three types of texts are used in every lesson:

• 1. Pre-recorded lessons and drills.

• 2. Lessons added by learner, thus making application interactive.

• 3. Inspirational poem recorded by native speaker.

• Control buttons functions are explained in English and in Mandarin

• The LBT application is designed for self-teaching

• Learners enjoy using this new approach with unprecedented experiences

• Teachers attain a competitive advantage due to much faster success of their students

• Learners remember poems by heart (similar to a song) since it resonates with their vision and feelings.

• The learner may Record his own narrating or reading.

• The learner may Share it with friends or teacher in case of integrated learning.

• Testing active vocabulary and fluency is built-in

• Speak on any topic ignited by the word on the display

• Speaking fluency testing provide gamification elements

• Developing a habit of automatic speech

• The application integrates direct connection to social networking

• Sharing your own recordings via social network or attaching it to an email in case of integrated learning

• Killing two birds with one stone: sharing and learning

• Global communication on a higher level of interaction

Main features of LBT app

• Acquisition of language skills instead of learning

• Interactive, dynamic, with built-in research capability

• Language skill training is integrated with social networks

• Intended for self-teaching and classroom instruction

• Content customized by the learner or the teacher.