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What's Inside Color Vowel® Academy
Online courses for teachers and learners alike
Live Group Training
Learn alongside your peers from all over the world live via Zoom! Our experienced Color Vowel® trainers provide engaging, interactive sessions, practical tasks, and personalized feedback.
On Demand Training
Learn the fundamentals of the Color Vowel® Approach in our asynchronous video-based Basics course comprising 4 video modules with over 6 hours of content and a wealth of teaching resources.
Private Communities
Color Vowel® Academy has free communities of learning for teachers and for learners where you can post questions for our experts, ask for advice from your peers, or share your own ideas and activities.
Free Events
Everyone is invited to our Pure English Practice pronunciation workouts. For teachers, we offer a monthly introductory webinar as well as Fridays at Five--a regular meeting to share insights and activities for teaching English.
A method for all ages and all levels
ELTS is dedicated to providing teachers and learners with powerful brain-based tools and strategies that support English language teaching and learning for a more productive, communicative, and equitable society.
Here's what just some of our Color Vowel® trained teachers have to say about our Approach.
Fun and Engaging
I love Color Vowel®! It's compelling, accessible, and based in the science of learning and how we process language in the brain. It gives learners a tangible system to hear the sounds of English and help them overcome L1 interference in a fun and engaging way.
Chelsea Olsen
Marinette School District, MI
A Way to Talk with Students about English Sounds
By providing us with a vocabulary to talk with students about sounds in English, the Color Vowel® Chart opens the doors to examining all of the most important aspects of English, including stress, intonation, spelling, irregular verbs, and lexical chunks.
Rebecca Wilner
American University and DC Public Schools, DC
"It just works!"
The Color Vowel® Chart provides an anchor that lets students produce and make sense of sounds even when they're not able to fully, consciously explain a certain pronunciation. It's a thread that I've carried through my teaching career since 2008 and it just works.
Megan Calvert
Montgomery College, MD
Hearing in Color
Upon discovering Color Vowel®, I was never able to “unhear” it. In a world in which we depend so much on technology for answers, it is liberating to have a mental tool which instantly aids in mastering the sounds of English.
Mariah Schuemann
University of Miami, FL
A Non-native English-speaking Teacher's Perspective
The Color Vowel® Chart makes it easy to remember the essential English vowels and helps us notice how to shape our mouth and jaw to produce the sounds of English.
Nao Yuhki
Gabby Academy, Japan
Simple Yet Powerful
Color Vowel® lifts the lid on the secrets of spoken English and gives learners understandable and effective tools for rapid improvement. It's a simple yet powerful way to tackle some of the hardest aspects of teaching English.
Laura McIndoo
Central New Mexico Community College, NM
Long & short vowels don't work
For me, the concept of long and short vowels never really worked. Color Vowel® gives me accurate, non-technical vocabulary to communicate with my students in a way that accesses multiple parts of their brain so they can perceive sounds not in their native language.
Samantha Parkes
U.S. State Department Specialist
Simple yet deep
The Color Vowel® Chart is deeper than it looks. The more phonological awareness a teacher has, the more that teacher can help learners develop their own phonological awareness.
Ginessa Payne
Center for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University, TX
Hi, I'm Karen Taylor.
I created the Color Vowel® Chart for my students. And I can train you to use it with yours.
At the end of the day, we all just want to get our students excited about speaking English and have them experience success in their language development. And we want to feel in control of (and confident about) our classroom and our career.
If this sounds at all like you, then I'd like to invite you to reinvigorate your English language instruction by training with us and learning about the Color Vowel® Approach.
The Color Vowel® Organizer is the Essential Tool for Teachers and Learners Alike
We organize spoken English.
The Color Vowel® Organizer is a daily-use tool that helps learners categorize and practice words and phrases by the way they sound.
Teachers, download it now then sign up for the Basics to learn how to use it and why it works!
Learners, download it now then bring it to the next session of Pure English Practice!
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