Elements of Voxy

ELEMENTS OF VOXYOverview of the Learning Experience

Elements Of Voxy

A Blended Solution for Effective Learning 2

Principles of Voxy 4

Structure of a Voxy Course 6

Explore 10

Tutoring 11

Profile 13

Voxy Proficiency Assessment 14

Appendix: Voxy Activities 16

ELEMENTS OF VOXY: TABLE OF CONTENTS

A BLENDED SOLUTION FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING

certified tutors

scientific research

smart technology

real-world content

to help learners unlock their English potential.

+ + +

Voxy combines

3

PRINCIPLES OF VOXYPersonalized & AdaptiveEvery Voxy learner receives a unique course.

Learners begin Voxy by identifying their skills, goals, and interests.

Using these selections, Voxy constructs individually tailored courses.

As learners use Voxy, the difficulty of lessons dynamically adapts to their evolving proficiency.

5

PRINCIPLES OF VOXYReal World EnglishLearners progress best when they are exposed to the English used in everyday situations.

With Voxy, learners can:

• Watch interactive video lessons

• Create karaoke-style audio lessons using their own music from iTunes

• Access thousands of text and image lessons drawn from our world-famous content partners

Voxy’s Content Partners

Activity SequencesVoxy’s learning activities offer practice with reading, listening, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.

Learners complete activities focused on discrete skills depending on their needs and performance.

7

STRUCTURE OF A VOXY COURSE

1. A learner’s Voxy course is made up of units, lessons, and activities.

2. Each unit is based around a theme (such as Finance, Health, Advance My Career, Ordering at a Restaurant, etc.).

Learners can study up to three units at a time

3. Voxy currently has 18 lessons in every Voxy unit, and more units are being added every month.

4. The learner completes 3 activities within each lesson.

9

Lessons can be based on a video, audio, text, image or conversation resource

Each activity takes about three minutes to complete

TUTORINGOne-on-one sessions via Google Hangout with private tutors is one of the most important parts of learning with Voxy.

Learners can schedule tutoring sessions at dates and times that are convenient to them.

Tutoring is the best way to practice speaking and improve pronunciation

11

Each tutoring session has a focus selected by the learner: Conversation, Oral Fluency, Grammar, Writing or Role Play.

After the session is over, the learner receives quantitative and qualitative feedback from the tutor.

PRACTICEThe ‘Practice’ section gives the learner access to thousands of hours of video-, audio-, text-, image- and conversation-based lessons.

Here, the learner can browse individual lessons for ones that interest him.

New lessons are added to Voxy every day

PERFORMANCE

13

‘Performance’ is where learners track the progress they are making in English.

This is also where learners can access the Voxy Proficiency Assessment, one of the most important features of the program.

See all words learned

Measure skill performance Keep track of

progress through Voxy units

VOXY PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENTThe Voxy Proficiency Assessment (VPA) is designed to provide an objective measure of a learner’s current level of English.

A learner’s VPA score can be calibrated to other prominent assessments (TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, etc.). The VPA consists of 63 total questions in 3 sections and should take 30-45 minutes for a learner to complete.

1. Grammar 3. Reading Comprehension

A new VPA is added to Voxy every 3 months to easily track progress in language skill aquisition over time

2. Listening Comprehension

15

APPENDIX

APPENDIX: TABLE OF CONTENTSVoxy Activities 19

Mind The Gap 20

Spellbreaker 21

Read Out 22

Déjà Vu 23

Sound Bite 24

What Is It 25

Play It By Ear 26

Fragmentstein 27

Hear Me Out 28

Picture Perfect 29

VOXY ACTIVITIESThe ten Voxy activities are designed to help learners acquire six key language skills:

Reading Comprehension

Listening Comprehension

Vocabulary

Writing

Grammar

Speaking

19

ACTIVITY: MIND THE GAP FILL-IN-THE-BLANK EXERCISE

What it’s for:Learners are offered reading practice and the chance to recognize and use key vocabulary in context.

Primary Skill: Vocabulary Secondary Skill: Reading

ACTIVITY: SPELLBREAKER SPELLING JUMBLE GAME

What it’s for:Learners demonstrate that they can spell the keywords from resources they have seen or listened to.

21

Primary Skill: Spelling Secondary Skill: Vocabulary, Writing

ACTIVITY: READ OUT READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE

What it’s for:Learners are given a resource to read and then questions that allow them to demonstrate that they’ve understood it.

Primary Skill: Reading Comprehension Secondary Skill: Vocabulary

ACTIVITY: DÉJÀ VU FLASHCARD MEMORY GAME

What it’s for:Learners are given the chance to demonstrate that they understand the definition or synonym of a keyword they have encountered in a Voxy resource while simultaneously contending with constraints on their working memory.

23

Primary Skill: Vocabulary Secondary Skill: Reading Comprehension

ACTIVITY: SOUNDBITE MULTIPLE CHOICE LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE

What it’s for:Learners are given the chance to demonstrate that they can identify a keyword without any textual support by its audio recording alone.

Primary Skill: Vocabulary Secondary Skills: Reading & Listening Comprehension

ACTIVITY: WHAT IS IT? WORD DEFINITION EXERCISE

What it’s for:Learners are given the chance to demonstrate that they understand the definition or synonym of a keyword they have encountered in a Voxy resource.

25

Primary Skill: Vocabulary Secondary Skill: Reading Comprehension

ACTIVITY: PLAY IT BY EAR LISTENING COMPREHENSION EXERCISE

What it’s for:Learners are given a resource to listen to and then questions to answer that allow them to demonstrate that they’ve understood it.

Primary Skill: Writing Secondary Skills: Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary

What it’s for:Learners improve their grammar and reading comprehension skills by using sentence fragments to rebuild resources they have read or listened to.

ACTIVITY: FRAGMENTSTEIN SEGMENT FRAGMENT EXERCISE

27

Primary Skill: Grammar Secondary Skill: Reading Comprehension

ACTIVITY: HEAR ME OUT LISTENING COMPREHENSION QUIZ

What it’s for:Learners improve their listening comprehension skills by listening to audio of the text and selecting the correct response to written comprehension questions.

Primary Skill: Listening Comprehension Secondary Skill: Vocabulary

What it’s for:Learners improve their vocabulary skills by identifying objects in this image-based activity.

ACTIVITY: PICTURE PERFECT IMAGE-BASED VOCABULARY EXERCISE

29

Primary Skill: Vocabulary Secondary Skill: Reading Comprehension

Contato: comercial@voxy.com | +55 11 4890 2317 | www.voxy.comAv. Eng. Luís Carlos Berrini, 1140, 7o andar, São Paulo-SP, 04571-000, Brasil