SYDNEY /PRNewswire/
-- Australian English has become one of the most popular choices
for English learners in Asia -
with more than three million people joining an Australian-based
Learn English Facebooksite since
its launch in 2013.
According to the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) its Australia
Plus Learn
English site is now the largest Learn
English Facebook community
in the world - ahead of established English language providers such
as the British Council and Voice of America.
The site provides
a community environment for people to engage in conversational
English tips and language resources. Participants are encouraged to
comment on each post in order to practice writing in English, and
are then corrected by the page moderator. Sometimes, corrections
are contributed by other members of the Learn English community,
including English teachers, native speakers, or fellow
learners.
Rowel Pits, one
of the page's three million fans said "Throughout the time I have
spent on this page, I have learned crucial things about English,
like grammar rules and English idioms. I find them pretty useful,
because they have really helped me to improve my English
communication skills… Therefore, in my own opinion, this page is
the best for someone like me and to others who want to be fluent in
English".
The ABC's
international division has a long history of producing English
language learning materials across radio, podcasts, television, and
online.
One of the
earliest iterations was Radio Australia's English for
You series, which was first broadcast to millions of
people in Indonesia in
1959. By 1982, five million copies of the English for You booklets
had been distributed acrossIndonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
The ABC's
international television service, Australia Plus
Television has also produced a variety of English
learning programs, with the first program, English Bites,
launching in the early 2000s.
John
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