It is Dexway’s pleasure to inform you that dexway Tablet has just been launched, an exclusive application that will enable you to access your dexway course via your tablet device.
You can now download it for free by clicking on the following link:
http://www.dexway.com/en-us/publicuser/tablet
You will be able to access your course along with all the other learning resources by logging in with your access details in the “settings” section.
Features of the dexway tablet courses
This application has been created by our R&D department so as to adapt the tablets to all of dexway’s formative content:
-Linguistic immersion through the multimedia content and activities set in real-life situations
-Interactive vocabulary with image association, pronunciation of a native speaker and written text
-Typical and specific situations with participation in conversations
-Automatic voice recognition and assessment of the student’s pronunciation
-Laboratory of languages and personalised assessment by native tutors of written and oral exercises.
-Conversation classes and subsequent evaluation of the activities carried out
-Mail and voice coaching to improve written and oral skills
-Karaoke and other activities to learn whilst having fun
-24x7x365 one2one: to solve any doubts that might arise in real time and via videoconference
-Classes in real time for the Plus and Everything Courses
-Access to Dexway Community
Forums
This first week of October has seen Dexway launch its forums, a new studying environment enabling students to enhance their cultural learning as well as encourage their interaction with the tutors. From now on, you will be able to share your opinions regarding present day affairs, learn new customs, traditions and festivities whilst meeting students from all around the world who are studying the same language as you. The forums are run and led by the dexway tutoring team, as always ready to help you through the One2One virtual classroom 24x7x365.
How does one access the forums?
Connect to the www.dexway.com platform and start up a session by using your access codes so as to access the Dexway Community. Having done this, click on “Enter” within the Forum box. This will automatically upload the respective forums and threads to your course.
Alternately, you can also access from your platform by clicking on Communication>Forums.
How do the forums work?
Tutors will propose, via the forums, various activities and themes related to a range of cultural aspects of the given country. By doing this, the cultural training is achieved through student-tutor interactions.
Tutors are therefore in charge of proposing the given activity as well as moderating and making the threads more dynamic. In addition to publishing comments through written text, the tutors will put up a recorded video so that the students can appreciate the pronunciation, intonation and non-verbal language. In Dexway, we like to make the most out of each and every moment to encourage written and oral comprehension whilst humanizing the e-learning experience by using the tutors’ videos.
What themes will be dealt with?
Four themes will be explored and will be constantly updated. The thematic choice depends on the relevance and importance for the learning process.
Forums vs. Study Groups
We recently announced the launching of the Study Groups, an environment whereby students can share experiences, chat and practice various grammatical aspects or use of language they consider useful. The exchange takes place via a videoconference virtual classroom with an interactive virtual whiteboard and projector, available 24x7x365.
Forums are asynchronous communication tools which stimulate reflection, investigation, and writing instead of the more spontaneous and oral-based framework of the study groups. Both of these training methods are essential in your language learning and we highly recommend that you use them as often as you wish.
Dexway brings the classroom to your home without you having to go anywhere, and offers you complete access to our native tutors available 24x7x365 through the virtual classroom One2One.
This course provides opportunities for the learner to respond professionally to the language used in familiar situations by guests, customers and suppliers to the tourist service by attending satisfactorily to the needs they have.
Throughout the course, the learner will come across very many real situations.
In these situations the learner has to interpret the communicative aims of the writers and numerous interlocutors to effectively deal with what occurs.
These tourist sector clients and customers write, appear in person and speak by phone and the learner has to respond to each situation by using the phone, the fax, booking forms, contracts, customer satisfaction surveys and email appropriately.
By the end of this course, the learner will be able to fluently express themselves with customers and suppliers at an intermediate level in a way fitting that of a tourist industry professional in the following
areas: customer service and attention, working with travel agencies, tourist information offices, transport suppliers, contingency and emergency resolutions, tourist product offers and solving complaints.
The Dexway TOEFL Preparatory Course guides the student through the same tasks he will encounter on the test. Think of it as a test simulation course. All the test tasks are presented in the course multiple times with one difference: The time requirement is not enforced until the cumulative lessons. This way, the student is able to grow used to the test environment without the pressure of time constraints. Additionally, valuable test-taking skills recommended by the Educational Testing Service, which produces the TOEFL, are also explained. In six virtual classes, the student has the opportunity to practice with a tutor and receive feedback on his performance. The student can gradually hone his skills until the final lessons when he goes through an actual test simulation.
To quote the TOEFL Tips PDF published by the Educational Testing Service, the TOEFL measures how well students use English, not just how much they know. It confirms that the student has the English language skills necessary to be successful in a university setting. Since it is the most popular and accepted English-language test in the world, students are able to use their TOEFL scores worldwide. More than 6,000 colleges, universities and agencies in 110 countries accept TOEFL scores. It is available in more than 180 countries.
-To be able to understand the main ideas of a given text regarding both concrete and abstract topics, including debates in their field of specialization
-To be able to interact regularly with native-speakers to a high degree of fluency and spontaneity in a pressure free and natural manner.
-To be able to write clear and detailed texts on a wide range of topics whilst systematically supporting their point of view by distinguishing the pros and cons of a given subject matter.
The Cambridge ESOL exams (English for Speakers of Other Languages) enjoy large recognition on an international scale and a significant amount of effort is carried out to insure both its validity and reliability. Each FCE exam is the result of some three years of work on behalf of the examiners who are perfectly qualified and trained to write and correct the tests. The FCE consists of five exams (papers).
1. Reading Comprehension
The style and content of the texts are based on the type of material the candidate has access to on a day-to-day basis, for instance, informative pamphlets, newspapers, magazines and letters.
2. Writing
The candidates must write two written pieces, each between 120 and180 words long approximately.
3. Use of English
The candidates carry out a series of tasks which assess their capacity to recognise and use the grammatical structures and vocabulary of the English language. The tasks consist in filling in the gap exercises, transforming sentences, making words and correcting mistakes.
4. Listening
The candidates listen to a series of recorded texts which range from dialogues, short monologues, adverts or interview extracts. It is not expected that they understand the recording word for word, given that what is assessed and valued is their ability to understand the main points and extract specific information.
5. Interview
This is an oral exam whereby the moderator assesses the candidate’s ability to communicate and capacity to provide personal information while taking into account his or her fluency, pronunciation, use of vocabulary and English grammar.
Functions such as: exchanging personal information, describing jobs, giving instructions, making an order and basic travel expressions are introduced and practiced through guided role-plays, reading texts and open questions.
The student will use structures such as the present simple and continuous to compare and contrast habitual and temporary activities, comparative adjectives to evaluate companies, the past simple to talk about past habits and the present perfect simple to refer to the recent past.
There is also extensive practice in spelling, saying numbers and the correct pronunciation of new vocabulary.
The various lexical fields are presented through freer practice in simulations, telephone calls and general conversation; encouraging the student to draw from personal experience to give meaningful, contextual practice.
More complex structures such as the second conditional, narrative tenses and future forms are used to carry out tasks such as giving presentations, dealing with clients and expressing opinions. Throughout the course the emphasis is on learner independence through exposure to the correct usage of the target language with attention to practical situations and the use of idioms and phrasal verbs.
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Includes Specific Business Director, vocabulary, phrases and dialogues.
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