Our early pilots in California and India have been critical in shaping our dev plan, while also indicating that there is a strong “product-market” fit between our vision and the reality that many children are struggling with. Santa Barbara, CA While our current content emphasizes guided learning, we had started with a free-choice format in […]
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Our flagship app, GLEN Learn, is structured as a set of lessons aimed at guiding a child from “zero to reading,” with heavy use of imagery and audio to create an immersive environment for literacy. The first step in this process is vocabulary acquisition. Once a child knows about 90% of the words in a
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“Zero” means that we do not assume prior exposure to English, or indeed, to any other language. “Zero to reading” means guiding a child from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” There is a significant research literature on “Instructed Second Language Acquisition,” or more simply, how to teach languages. This literature tells us that
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In today’s globalized world, proficiency in English is the key to educational and economic opportunity. Our mission at GLEN (GLobal ENglish) World is to scale English literacy to unlock these opportunities for every child. The need for scaling is clear. Even in an English speaking country like the United States, a significant percentage of schoolchildren
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