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WordChamp Delights Foreign Language and ESL Teachers with Its Online Course Management System.

Delivers New Insight to Student Productivity and Learning Performance

BOSTON -- "A fantastic learning tool...", "Versatile, efficient, and popular...", "Students are energized..." These are just a few of the many comments from primary school to college-level teachers across the globe who

have adopted WordChamp[R] for their language courses. At WordChamp.com, teachers have free access to all of the website's resources.

Language teachers have always struggled with the difficulties of keeping language learning fresh and pushing students to increase their vocabulary in a new language. With WordChamp's online Course Management program, teachers are finding that not only is vocabulary acquisition and learning more exciting for students, but teachers are now able to receive immediate feedback on student performance and tailor their classes to student needs.

With WordChamp's Course Management program, teachers can:

* Easily set up classes and assign homework

* Tailor online assignments using original classroom materials or combine with WordChamp's industry leading materials and audio clips

* Receive immediate feedback and detailed metrics on individual and class performance

* React quickly to address class or student needs in a particular area

"We have been listening to language teachers at all levels to develop a tool that not only makes language learning fun, but makes teaching it easier and more efficient," said Daniel Blumenthal, Founder of GlobaLinguist, Inc. and Developer of WordChamp.com.

Jennifer MacLachlan, a French teacher from Ridley College Middle School, has already incorporated WordChamp's Course Management program into her classes. "Wordchamp has provided me with the most incredible tool for measuring success. The course management tool allows me to offer tangible feedback to parents and administrators about the effectiveness of this online tool. Thank you to the Wordchamp team for bringing foreign language instruction into the new millennium!"

Course Management is simple for teachers to use:

Teachers can log on and register on WordChamp.com for free. Within minutes, they can set up a class, print registration instructions for their students, and create homework assignments, flashcards, and drills.

Once their class is set up and homework is created, teachers can log on at any time and view a variety of reports that show which students have completed assignments, the total time students spend learning vocabulary, the percentage of answers right and wrong, how many flashcards were practiced, and more. There is also a feature for teachers to view words or phrases that multiple students may be having difficulty learning. Teachers can view these reports at a class or an individual level, and use this information to tailor subsequent classes and address specific learning needs. In addition to its flexibility and extensive functionality, teachers continue to praise WordChamp's simplicity and marvel at how quickly students have adopted the website.

"I love WordChamp and so do my students" says Pam Ikegami, Japanese Professor at the University of New Hampshire. "The students overwhelmingly loved using WordChamp. I found the variety of drill methods great because they could work on their listening skills as well as their reading skills. I don't understand why every language teacher isn't making WordChamp a part of their curriculum."

WordChamp is being used around the world in primary through college-level classes, international language schools, and government language centers to teach a wide variety of languages. In the United States, WordChamp is in use at several of the country's most distinguished universities and language programs, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Columbia.

Visit WordChamp at http://www.wordchamp.com

About GlobaLinguist:

GlobaLinguist, Inc., the industry leader in Open Content Language Learning[TM], provides web-based language-learning solutions to schools, businesses, governments, and individuals. WordChamp.com, GlobaLinguist's innovative website is the web's fastest growing, multilingual community providing resources for learning and teaching foreign languages. Wordchamp.com provides members with shared open content, exercises for language learning, free teacher resources, and personal tools to assist anyone in the day-to-day use of a foreign language. WordChamp.com users currently span 192 countries, speaking more than 125 languages. GlobaLinguist, Inc. was founded in 2003, is located in Newton, Mass. and is privately held.

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