Online China language centers embrace VoIP technologies
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The era of interactive online language instruction has arrived. This is affirmed by Dr Marvin Ho, founder of the Taipei Language Institute, to Australian daily The Age.
The director is deploying a “language call center” in west Beijing where some 20 teachers offer online sessions. He started this project since he discovered what the potentials of Skype is. And so far so good, no teachers nor students have complained about eventual technical or audio quality downtime.
Most of the time, the student profile is a white-collar working for a large multinational and expatriated in China. They are not seeking fluency in foreign language, just to progress enough to make themselves understood by coworkers.
This definitively is a smart use of modern communication technologies. Cheap to deploy. Eventually, it could even be combined to some outsourced monitoring system (see our paper on this topic). But don’t forget that learning a foreign language has never been better online than in real life.
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Apr 5, 2006 | By Nuno
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