Sanako Blog

How investing in language education boosts national and regional economies?

Sanako Blog — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:49:10 GMT

In an earlier blogpost, we explored how language learning was the ultimate 21st Century skill. We identified how language skills could increase opportunities for learners and support their economic and skill development. This blog post explores why national governments support nationwide language learning initiatives and why such investment makes strong economic sense. It also outlines how Sanako works with national and regional governments to implement and deliver such programs.

What are the benefits of cloud-based language teaching solutions?

Sanako Blog — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:05:25 GMT

Over the last six months, Sanako has been in constant dialogue with our resellers and global customers, helping them to adapt their language teaching provision to new fully remote or hybrid teaching models. In most cases, as in-school language labs are now hard to access, these conversations have focused on how schools can use cloud-based technologies as an alternative solution. Such solutions help to minimise disruption to learning and can support students now studying from home.

How do Sanako’s cloud-based language teaching tools support students to develop their core language skills?

Sanako Blog — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:38:48 GMT

Whether students are learning a language as part of formal or informal education programmes, language teachers typically seek to develop students’ fluency in four core areas. These are the creation and understanding of written content (i.e writing and reading) and the skills of oral expression and understanding (i.e speaking and listening).

How does Sanako Connect support and encourage educators to deliver Task-Based Language Teaching?

Sanako Blog — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:19:45 GMT

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to language teaching. Every educator has their own unique approach to teaching each class and every student. For Sanako, it’s important that our products and solutions are highly flexible and can support the widest variety of different teaching styles.

Language learning - Why is it the ultimate 21st Century skill?

Sanako Blog — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 12:56:53 GMT

With schools and other educational institutions closed due to Covid-19, students and educators had no alternative but to move their language learning and teaching online. As a result, online tools such as Sanako Connect have seen significant increases in daily usage over the past months. Yet, these increases have been dwarfed by even bigger leaps in the usage of consumer-led, online language learning sites. Their growth has been so dramatic that research company, Technavio, predicts that the global language learning games market will grow by an incredible $ 3.32bn between 2020 and 2024. This blog post identifies five key reasons behind this dramatic growth and outlines why language learning has suddenly become so popular.

CUSTOMER STORIES: How do Sanako products support language teaching and interpreter training at St.Petersburg State University?

Sanako Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:40:15 GMT

St.Petersburg State University is one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia. Home to over 32,000 students and over 5,000 members of academic staff, the university offers over 400 core courses and more than 800 additional educational programmes.

Tips for Safe and Sanitary Use of Headsets in your Language Lab or Classroom

Sanako Blog — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:39:29 GMT

We’ve collected here some tips and advice on how to properly sanitize and clean your headsets. Taking good care of your headset by cleaning it regularly is a practice we highly recommend for all our customers. A clean headset means safe usage, which is now more important than ever. These instructions apply to our SLH-07 headsets specifically, but can be adapted to use with other headsets as well. Just make sure you primarily follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer.

WEBINAR RECORDING: How can combining pedagogy and technology transform language teaching?

Sanako Blog — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:38:44 GMT

NEW WEBINAR SERIES FROM SANAKO:

This new series of monthly webinars from Sanako provides a virtual platform for sharing best practices with language education leaders across the world.

Latest Finnish language teaching research highlights impact of listen-and-repeat training

Sanako Blog — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:23:45 GMT

Understanding and correctly reproducing phonemes is widely accepted to be a key building block in successful language learning. The latest insights from Finnish researchers suggests that listen-and-repeat techniques can be useful tools in helping students to pick up second language phonemes. This blog post looks at how language teachers can use these insights to better support their learners.

CUSTOMER STORIES: Why did the University of Tampa choose Sanako’s Study 1200 for their state-of-the-art digital language labs?

Sanako Blog — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:16:55 GMT

The University of Tampa is a medium-sized, private, residential university located on the riverfront in downtown Tampa, Florida. Part of the College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Languages and Linguistics provides students with the foreign language proficiency and cultural awareness necessary to succeed in an increasingly integrated world community. The department offers a major in Spanish and minors in French and Spanish, as well as courses in American Sign Language, Chinese, German, Italian, and Japanese.