MUMBAI: BBC World Service has announced that its English language teaching service celebrates 10 years online this month. The site receives 10 million page impressions a month – 19 million if one counts English Language Teaching material on partner websites.
Special features on www.bbclearningenglish.com to mark the anniversary include:
A mini retro site displaying classic pages from the archives
A specially commissioned piece by linguist David Graddol discusses who will be learning English in the future and how and what they will be learning
A blogging facility providing daily language support to individual bloggers via a teacher’s weblog
The website also features Flatmates – BBC World Service’s first interactive soap; Ask About English, where experts answer users’ questions; and Keep Your English Up To Date, in which Professor David Crystal discusses new words.
And there are interactive teaching games Back of the Net and Commentary Box and a range of short audio programmes with quizzes, glossaries and downloadable scripts on lifestyle and entertainment.
For teachers of English, weekly lesson plans based on topical news stories are available.