1) A Time Tested, Proven, and Mature Teaching Method and Curriculum.
The Viva Campus English curriculum and teaching method have been developed in Taiwan since 1995 in a pre-school, kindergarten and institute environment with resounding success. In addition, all supplementary teachers` aids and materials, and extensive training materials have been organized, completed and time tested in the industry. Over three hundred educational entities have used the method and materials during this period. It is a teaching method and a curriculum ready for broad base usage in all schools, traditional or experimental.
2) A Bi-Mother Tongue Language Teaching Method: (eg.: Chinese & English, Spanish & English, English + whatever language, etc.)
It is well known that in the global world of today, English is the most commonly used language in science, technology, and commerce, as well as in internet based applications. Therefore two language education (a.k.a. bi-lingual) is vitally important for any country which wishes to maintain its competitiveness in the world. This necessitates focusing on improving language skills in English Education at all levels, especially in the early education years.
However, the effectiveness of many of the present curricula in the world remains seriously problematic in most countries because of repetitively employed erroneous concepts and approaches to language learning. The Viva Campus English Teaching Method can be very beneficial because it has evolved into a successful Bi-Mother Tongue Teaching Method and Curriculum which can greatly improve the effectiveness of most English education learning programs already in place worldwide.
Conversely, this same method and curriculum can also be useful in foreign language learning for English speaking students wishing to acquire language skills in other languages, with some minor adjustments or adaptations in order to encompass varied cultural differences. In other words, the Viva Campus English Teaching Method is extremely useful for foreign students wishing to learn English, as well as for English speaking students, wishing to learn other foreign languages, such as Chinese, or Spanish. This in itself is a remarkable feature of the method.
3) A Much Needed Integrated Teaching Method & Curriculum:
In an era of knowledge explosion, one of the biggest and most pressing challenges for schools around the world is how to save time, money and resources for students and schools alike to complete the necessary basic educational requirements and still maintain required high standards and quality in education programs. Therefore an integrated teaching method and curriculum, where several subjects and goals of education are incorporated, entwined and blended into one, is a very important milestone for schools to achieve. The Viva Campus English Method has combined disciplinary education, etiquette, multi-cultural education, social skills, emotional intelligence education, character education and two language education into a smooth flowing curriculum. It offers the best sample and remedy for an integrated education much needed everywhere where quality education is the principal goal or objective..
4) A Co-Operative Language Education Method: An Effective Time, Money and Manpower Saver for All.
In most countries in the world, good English teachers are hard to find or develop. Budgetary restraints, lack of resources and high costs involved for recruiting or developing professional English teachers, compel most English curricula to concentrate mainly on reading, writing and passing exams, thereby by-passing effective learning. This kind of curriculum has been proven to be cumbersome, tedious and counterproductive to real learning, and, is further proven contradictory by recent neuro-science discovery and knowledge reference language learning. In effect, most learning programs are ineffective and/or obsolete.
The Viva Campus English Teaching Method is the first method to incorporate fully the utilization of classroom teachers` assistants, more so than relying only on the professional English teachers` ability to teach English. Great success has been achieved in creating more effective and pleasant teaching, something that has redefined and re-outlined a new way of English conversational education theory where students and teachers at all levels truly enjoy the application of the program and its results.
5) A ‘No Brainer’ Education Program Devised According to the Brain-Compatible Education Theory by Neuro-scientists.
The problems for English education programs are usually twofold:
(a) The shortage of qualified English teachers.
(b) Most English teachers have problems with teaching most of the existing conversational curricula. It is a chore just to make the material practical and applicable for students. Further, some teachers lack experience in creating or enforcing conversational techniques themselves, therefore presenting an even bigger problem in the realistic teaching of language conversation. This dilemma is actually created by the ”Brain-Incompatible Teaching Methods and Curriculum Designs” that fail to recognize the students` absorption ability in language learning.
Consequently, The Viva Campus English Method and Curriculum goes further than just to devise a “Brain-Compatible Conversational Curriculum”. We make sure that our program can be easily understood and executed by any teachers, and not limited to just qualified and professional English teachers. In this way we actually create a natural English conversational environment in school that is practical, absorbable and welcomed by students, teachers and educators to the point that it is really a “No-Brainer Program for all. The motto:“ Excellence, not Perfection”, is something that is refreshingly pragmatic in language learning, and one of the Viva Program`s cornerstones..
6) “Viva Campus English¨ Solves Conversational and Listening Comprehension Problems, Resulting in Higher Reading and Writing Ability of Students.
“Brain-Compatible Education” does not just solve the Conversational and Listening Comprehension Problems, it also creates a smooth flowing process of properly understanding English language learning as a whole, with greatly improved student results in reading and writing and passing exams.
And yet, it is not the intention nor the purpose of this conversational program to replace any original or existing English curriculum. Rather, it is intended and is demonstrably able to complement all curricula by closing all gaps and holes in language learning, thereby bringing out greater desired results for all, as well as making any English curriculum complete in terms of conversation, reading and writing.
7) The Viva Campus English Teaching Method and Program Complements Existing Programs, and Is the Missing Link for A Brain-Compatible Education, That Can Bring Out the Desired Results and Success of Any Second Language Education or Foreign Language Education.
In a word, The Viva Campus English Program is the first ever model curriculum to be established for a brain-compatible education in language education. The resultant pragmatic application is a real life simulation conversation education program which is successfully enforced, especially in an existing program where success is desired.
Through cooperation between English teachers and other teachers already in place, huge savings in manpower can be easily realized, thereby offering unlimited opportunities to make language education on campus a reality without big budget. expenditures. This in itself is compelling motivation to use the program.
And the comprehensive design of integrating so many educational purposes, such as
character education and moral teachings by using a bi-mother tongue method and approach in a bi-language education program is both innovative and progressive. Yet, all these educational goals can be achieved simultaneously with less financial responsibility from schools and governments, and with less time consumption in language learning.
The program also creates a much more pleasurable and effective environment for students in language learning. By introducing and enforcing this program, a wonderful spirit of cooperation, doing, and execution of the program engulfs the whole school. . This ideal program should be a “dream come true” for everybody involved in English learning, from students, to parents to teachers and to schools alike because language learning becomes the common goal of everybody. It creates a guaranteed comfort zone in learning a foreign or a second language and lessens the burdens of all concerned. It is the classical Win-Win situation everybody desires. In short, it solves “the missing link dilemma” in English as a Second Language programs by successfully integrating the vital areas so necessary in the acquisition of language skills.
8) This Viva Conversation Language Program is suitable to be applied to the whole range of educational entities, including Pre-Schools, Kindergartens, Elementary Schools, Vocational Schools, Middle Schools High Schools, and Adult Classes, all the way to Colleges.
Conversational ability is part of our human life without discrimination to age.
Therefore, this program is recommended to be used by all age groups, in conversational English courses. The Viva method is, without doubt, the correct way to achieve “excellence” in language learning.
The Viva program design, and what it contributes to students and schools in foreign language learning, is due to the great advantages of the Viva Campus English Teaching Method through sequential stages in conversation, comprehension, reading and writing. With this in mind, it is the expressed desire of the writers-editor to introduce this program to all the schools teaching a second or foreign language. The savings in time, money, and effort, coupled with the satisfaction of successful and easy learning for all make this Viva Program an exceptional approach to language learning for all students at any level.. For additional information to learn what the program can do for you, your students and your school, please contact the Writer/Editors:
E. M. Cinelli & Rebecca Lin
Viva Publishing Ltd., Inc.
#176, Chung-Cheng Rd.
Pai-Ho City,732, Tainan Hsieng, Taiwan,
Website: www.vivaenglish.com.tw
Company E-Mail: viva.english@msa.hinet.net
Personal E-mail: rebecca_lin@mail.com
E.M. Cinelli: milpara3@yahoo.com
Website USA: vivaenglish.com
Tel: 886-6-6830-286/ Fax: 886-6-6832-654
Beijing cell phone: 13141464549