High school students across the world teach each other their native language
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Teach & Learn
Once a week your students teach English to the students from another country and in return they learn a foreign language from these students during a second session that same week
Why it works
Immersion. Visualization. Personalized content.
ONE-ON-ONE INTERACTION
You can't learn how to speak without actually speaking. By matching you with your peers across the world we create this interaction through free video conferencing without any travel expenses.
SEEING IS BELIEVING
What can be more personalized material than working with your own mistakes? As you understand those mistakes and avoid repeating them in the future, something magical happens: your confidence goes through the roof!
PERSONALIZED HOMEWORK
You no longer study material that is completely impersonal to you. This way you zero in on things that you personally need to improve. The graphs will show how quickly each student will progress using this approach.
Unsure if high school students can teach their native language?
All they have to do is:
Type
what the learner says during the conversation into the platform
Correct
the text explaining what they would have said instead as a native speaker
Our Platform & AI
When students correct each other, these corrections are analyzed by our artificial intelligence which then prompts the instructor to give the grammatical explanation. The platform registers all the data, and then creates personalized homework for each student based on the mistakes that they made during the class.
For example, the student will be asked to create sentences with the new words that he learnt, and to complete fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Powerful Tracking Tools
K12 students, parents and teachers have immediate access to the performance reports generated by the platform
All you have to do is
DRILL DOWN INTO THE CONTENT
OF EACH LESSON
If the graphs don't show expected results or for any other reason, the content of each lesson can be reviewed by diving down into each lesson file. There is absolutely zero room for slacking.
LESSON-BY-LESSON PERFORMANCE GRAPHS
Our tracking tools provide a clear picture of the learner's progress by measuring how fast the learner is speaking in each class and their error percentage on a lesson-by-lesson basis.
Foreign language learning is not only more fun, but also more efficient when applied conversing with peers from abroad
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The one-to-many classroom setting has proven to be inadequate in language acquisition, because the students do not have the opportunity to actually SPEAK the language.
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Facilitating one-on-one interaction between students who are native speakers in different languages enables this interaction... and is much more fun and motivating for the students (plus it gives a break to the teacher!).
Testimonials
With OCTB, my students are talking in Spanish during 50 minutes straight, which is otherwise impossible.
Captain Ryan Raycraft - Spanish Teacher,
Fishburne Military School
Now my students have a reference of what life outside of their country looks like, and that is lifelong learning.
Carmen Wirtz - College Counseling,
Antigua International School
If this was my primary source of learning a foreign language, it would provide everything that I need.
Gavin - 6 year Spanish student,
Fishburne Military School
On-boarding steps
Fill out the contact form
(at the bottom of the page)
Step 1
Teacher
On-boarding
Step 4
Set-up a 30 min interview
Step 2
Student
Training
Step 5
Schedule Coordination
Step 3
Peer
Assignment
Step 6
Supporting Data
How can we be sure that this will actually work? Because it's already happening! Check out the student and teacher testimonials in the top menu to hear from them how they've integrated the OCTB platform in their language classes, and how students and teachers alike have benefited from this.
Plus, we have supporting data from every lesson of every student that has ever taken a class using our approach.
