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Englishtown
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Pure Online English Schools
Private English Schools
Universities and Traditional English Schools
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| Course Design |
Focuses on improving students listening, speaking, reading and writing communication skills |
Non structured
Just focuses on oral English, ignore reading, writing and grammar
Only focuses on drilling grammar and vocabulary; has ignored the function of language as a communicative tool
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| Teaching Methodology |
Unique Englishtown EfektaTM System, combines traditional classroom, social activities and online interactive learning, allows learning to be more interactive, effective and flexible |
Self learning
Learning by watching video, and repeating scripts; effectiveness is in doubt
Unidirectional teaching approach is usually used in a traditional classroom, which makes learning passive, otherwise known as outdated ¡°spoon-fed teaching¡±
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| Contact Hours with Foreign Teachers (Calculated Per Year) |
24/7 LIVE teachers conversation classes, together with 1:1 private lessons, F2F classes and social activities, students have direct contact with foreign teachers allowing for over 300 hours of contact time between teachers and students. |
Self learning
Only a few sessions conversation class each day with no level segmentation, thus students couldn’t practice under the most suitable environment
100 hours; but the unidirectional approach allows almost no interaction between students and teachers
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| Student Background |
94% of students are from somewhere outside HK; students will be exposed to a lot of colloquialism, and also able to learn cultures of different countries |
Self learning
98% of students are local Hong Kong people, making it difficult to get rid of Chinglish
98% of students are local Hong Kong people, making it difficult to get rid of Chinglish
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| Class Time |
Students can study online anytime, from 12 midnight or 3am in the morning; with over 200 F2F classes and workshops offered each week, students can select classes which best suits their time |
Flexible, but with no one coaching you
Depends, as they need to gather a specific number of students for each class
Fixed class time; students missing a session will not be compensated
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| School Location |
Students can login to school anywhere as long as they have access to internet; they can also attend F2F classes and workshops at any of our 5 centres |
Students can login to school anywhere as long as they have access to internet
Need time and travel fee to get to a fixed location for classes
Needs time and travel fee to get to a fixed location for classes
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| Tuition Fee |
50-70% cheaper than other English schools |
A hundred something per month
>$1,000 per month
>$1,000 per month
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| Certificate |
Students can take EF Cambridge English Level Test for free upon course completion and receive a certificate co-issued by EF and University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations |
No certificate
Issued by local institutions
Issued by local institutions
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| Course-ware |
Developed by EF Linguists |
The quality of course-ware is not guaranteed
Developed by local institutions
Developed by local institutions
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| Government Subsidy and Public Examination |
Specified courses are reimbursable under the Government Continuing Education Fund. Students can take BULATS at any of the Englishtown Service Centres and get the certificate right after the test. |
Not covered by Government funding. No public examinations are provided.
Not necessarily covered by Government funding
Not necessarily covered by Government funding
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