WebSwami was an immense success both for me as a teacher and for the students. I would not want to teach an online course without it!
- Monte Bigger, Instructor, Queen’s University
The Learner
The Learner Interface Features
WebSwami combines the latest technological breakthroughs with strong training methodology to produce a highly effective and motivating learning experience.
Explore the tabs below to learn more:
Fluency Practice
Fluency Practice
Learners simply don't get enough practice through traditional classroom and e-learning methods to develop confidence, accuracy and fluency. WebSwami incorporates pedagogically sound activities that offer controlled practice and rapid fluency building.
This allows learners to begin sessions with more basic listening gap-fills, sentence ordering and speech modelling, and then to move on to more sophisticated real-time simulations, instant translation and open-ended video presentations.
Voice Graph
Unique Voice Graph
Getting the correct stress, rhythm and timing and especially the intonation is vitally important to communicate well in any spoken language (and essential in tonal languages!).
WebSwami is the first online training system with an intonation graph as well as the more traditional stress graph.
Webcam Recording
WebCam Video Recording – an Industry First
Traditional language labs and training systems have failed to integrate video recording. Learners not only express themselves more fully in a target language using webcams; modelling facial shapes also improves pronunciation accuracy and language awareness.
Only WebSwami gives learners the benefit of webcam recording, which makes elearning simulations far more fun and interactive – every learner is a star!
One-to-one feedback
One-to-One Attention & Video Feedback
Not only can instructors review every audio/video recording that learners make, they can also leave in reply a video, audio or text message to correct, instruct or praise student performance.
Learners conveniently access new feedback messages in the ‘Message Inbox’ without having to search through multiple lessons and courses.
Learner Activities
WebSwami offers learners over 10 different activities through which to learn, practice and test themselves.
Click below for examples of just a few of the activities:
Simulation
Practice
Matching
Teaching
Writing
Flash
Simulation
Greatly accelerate fluency with this activity. Students record their voice/video in real time, simulating a real conversation, translating in real-time, video-dubbing and many more variations.
Afterwards learners can review their performance and re-record if they wish.
Pronunciation & Accent Practice
Students listen to native speakers and then record, comparing their voice to the voice graph. They can then re-record to improve stress, intonation and accent.
WebSwami is the only online system of its kind with a voice graph that measures both stress AND tone. The graph offers unparalleled accuracy by employing world class speech algorithms also used at top college linguistic research labs.
Video & Multimedia Matching
You've probably seen text matching activities. WebSwami brings you this amazing new activity, which lets you match any combination of video, audio, image and text!
Teaching Screen
Students learn from personal tutorials introduced and recorded by instructors.
The video can also be engaging pre-recorded videos showing language used in context, clips from movies or interactive introductions to grammar points etc.
Writing
Write letters, articles, reports etc. for any given situation using common word-processing formatting tools. Using WebSwami's Unicode compliance, any language is accepted.
After submitting an assignment, students can receive a copy of their writing with marked-up feedback from the instructor.
Flash Game Integration
Many of us have access to thousands of Flash games. Using this activity any one of those games can be integrated into WebSwami seamlessly so that fun and highly addictive games can appear seamlessly with your lessons.
