Chinese Students Learn English Through Virtual World  

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In "English-crazy China" many children are sent by their parents to one of 50,000 for-profit training schools around the country that focuses on learning the English language. Public television annually airs the Star of Outlook English Talent Competition which is possibly the largest nationwide competition in the country. In 2009 400,000 students between the ages of 6 and 14 participated in it.

This year the competition will be held online through 8D World, which runs a virtual world called Wiz World Online for Chinese-speaking kids who want to learn English. The competition will provide each contestant with their own avatar and each person will rack up points for correct. For more information click here.

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Chelsea Bruha   says February 14, 2010 at 12:47 PM

This is pretty cool. Using the Internet to mass-teach. This is quite possible the future of teaching in schools, virtual schools where you don't even have to get out of bed to learn. Will this enhance the education systems?

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