Articles

In this programme we visit a vocabulary lesson in Indonesia, where Eka uses a variety of activities to keep her young students fully involved. Sometimes they work as a whole class, sometimes in small groups and sometimes in pairs.  

Although you will often see twenty-first century skills and digital literacy referred to as one and the same thing in much of the literature, there is a considerable difference between the two. 

When I grew up and went to school in the seventies and eighties, discussions of literacy and numeracy were limited to what we used to call the ‘three Rs’ (reading, (w)riting and (a)rithmetic), but times have changed, and the notion of 'literacy’ in the wired world of 2014 is a completely different beast.  

In this article, we explore some of the ways teachers, organisations and the wider community can encourage and support people learning English to improve their language, confidence and independence.

Discover practical activities you can use to develop your learners’ skills in peer and self-assessment.

In May 2014 we published a video of Winnie Pang during her first class with a group of very young learners. In this video, we meet Winnie and her class again at the end of the school year.

This article describes a training event for CLIL teachers in Salzburg Austria, in November 2015 with a focus on CLIL cooperation between language teachers and subject teachers. All of the 100 participant teachers were from Technical and Vocational High Schools (HTLs) around Austria.