Lingonet Information

We are aiming to help learners and teachers at schools, polytechnics, adult education centres, universities and colleges, and in different kinds of organisations and companies. We also co-operate with national and international publishers, and various governmental organisations. Lingonet was founded in 1996 with the aim of developing multimedia content and multimedia-based learning paradigms for language learning. We found that many existing CD-ROM titles excluded language teachers from the equation and concentrated solely on a self-study approach. We therefore introduced co-operative, task-based learning to many of our products and soon received comments like "It is refreshing to discover courseware which recognizes that we are social animals ...". We also felt that too much of the development effort in e-learning was geared towards building platforms and environments for the future, while we wanted to start reaping the benefits of technology immediately. By the end of 2006, we had sold more than 300,000 copies of our products to more than 35 countries worldwide. Moreover, many of these programs are running on several educational portals. Our programs Teentalk Britain and Teentalk Canada, both based on authentic non-scripted video-recorded interviews in British and Canadian schools, received a quality label from the French Ministry of Education in 2004. Many of our products are designed to be resource packages for teachers who want to