{"id":20128,"date":"2019-04-11T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxy.com\/?p=20128"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:37:35","slug":"voxy-de-camino-noticias-desde-tesol-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxy.com\/es\/blog\/voxy-de-camino-noticias-desde-tesol-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Voxy de camino: noticias desde TESOL 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the TESOL International Convention, and I gave a talk about offering needs-based instruction at scale, including a discussion of how to leverage technology to drive learner engagement. This was an exciting presentation to deliver because I was able to use data from Voxy\u2019s recently released <\/span>Needs Analysis<\/span><\/a> as well as outcomes data from various cohorts of Voxy learners to illustrate my points. While I have written and spoken at length about <\/span>why personalization is important for language learning<\/span><\/a> and how <\/span>technology can both measure and drive outcomes<\/span><\/a>, this was the first time I had put all those things together in one coherent story, so I thought I would offer that here today.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Voxy, we approach language learning as skill acquisition, and our products and services are centered around making sure that learners have meaningful practice with the real-world English that\u2019s relevant to their needs and goals. This means that we start out by figuring out what those needs are so that we can tailor our content and instruction as precisely as possible. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To give you an idea of what that means, I looked at two months of data from several thousand Voxy learners, and discovered that 46% of them wanted to learn English for work, 33% wanted to learn English to help with tasks related to daily life, 13% were interested in the English they needed to succeed in specific academic subjects, and 8% wanted to prepare for standardized tests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly, someone who wants to learn English for the workplace is going to need different lessons than someone who wants to take college courses in English. But what exactly is \u201cworkplace English\u201d? We need more granular answers in order to effectively differentiate instruction. Diving a bit deeper into the needs analysis data reveals a wide variety of work-related goals:<\/span><\/p>\n