Good News for English learners in India : Grammar Improvement course launched by EnglishLeap.com

June 21, 2012 - PRLog -- English grammatical correctness has always been a stumbling block for non-native English speakers. There has been a stress of grammar in schools in India right from the primary classes. However, it has been noticed that many adult learners still make grammatical errors and there is no efficient method to help them improve at this stage. To address this problem, EnglishLeap.com has launched a free grammar improvement course on its website.

The website started with a lot of free material for students to improve their English, including grammatical skills. In fact, http://www.englishleap.com/grammar has always been one of popular destinations for learners seeking grammar improvement. However, the teachers at EnglishLeap realized that a more interactive methodology was needed to help learners become grammatically correct.

Based on the assessment data for thousands of test takers, the teachers at EnglishLeap identified the thirty one most important grammar elements where Indian students make mistakes. As an example, it was noticed that Indian learners face difficulty in making negative sentences, particularly getting confused between the usage of ‘don’t’ and ‘doesn’t’. The course designers realized that it was important to test a user on various grammatical concepts so that the user can work only on his improvement areas. This led to a pre-test and post-test feature in the course design. Finally, the course was launched with thirty modules and each module having three sections. This course can be accessed at http://www.englishleap.com/english-course .

Since the course is available free of cost to registered users, it is a giant leap for English learning in India. As a matter of fact, more than one thousand people have tried this course in the first week of launch. EnglishLeap has been tracking the pre-test and post-test scores of the candidates to understand if there has been an improvement in their grammatical correctness after taking the course. The results are astounding. There is a twenty five percentage increase in the post-test score as compared to the pre-test scores.

The team at http://www.englishleap.com/ has big plans for the future. Now, that the grammar improve course has been rolled out, the content team is working on a similar course for vocabulary improvement. As expected, this will not be a regular flash card based vocabulary memorization course. The team is researching innovative methods to help learners not only get exposed to new words, but also be able to use these words effectively in their daily conversation. Besides these new courses, the flagship English speaking course at EnglishLeap has seen a lot of traction. The English speaking course is focussed on spoken English improvement and allows the users to record their voice and compare their recording with experts.