Wiz World Cup Leads the New Trend of Learning Oral English Online

Wiz World Cup concluded with the competition winner receiving the Disney Reward on 15th August, 2009. This oral English competition was held by six Shanghai government agencies and the Shanghai Oriental Digital Community. It was held in anticipation and support of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

A Virtual World Makes an Oral English Competition Miracle

The competition attracted an unprecedented number of contestants who only needed a home computer and a broadband connection to participate: 14,580 contestants and more than 300 elementary schools in all. How was it possible for so many children to participate in one competition? The answer lies in Wiz World Online (WWO). WWO works similarly to a massively multi-user online role playing virtual world with rigorous oral English curriculum enabled by powerful speech technologies. WWO is designed by the creator of “The Age of Empires”—— Rick Goodman.

Screenshot of WWO

A Brand New Competition Style with Huge Amounts of Expo Related Content

The Wiz World Cup delivered a new competition style which combined online and offline activities. All the contestants could learn oral English in a comfortable and encouraging environment and the real-time response system provided detailed progress data to parents, teachers and the participants.

A contestant giving a speech

In the competition, there were many questions about Expo 2010, such as responding to questions raised by foreign visitors and answering questions about Expo 2010. In the Grand Final, each contestant also made an “I love Expo, I love Wiz World” speech.

Throughout the Wiz World Cup, many parents and children complimented WWO as an engaging, effective and motivating environment for spoken English learning.

This grandfather and his granddaughter are using WWO together

A new era of online English learning has come.