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Are you interested in building your knowledge in issues around visual impairment? Would you like some tips on how to include a visually impaired (VI) learner in your classes? Do you want to learn about some of the educational needs of these learners?

How can I teach English to a learner who seems not to listen properly?

Assessment is a crucial part of learning. It can be difficult to know how to identify learners with special educational needs (SENs) in the classroom and how to include learners with SENs in the assessment process. 

We are now living in the age of the moving image. 

‘Our teacher is always stressed. All he does is shout, shout, shout. He needs to calm down, stop taking it out on us’

I often hear this comment from children who are having problems with school. Pupils in school are very aware of the mental and physical state of their teachers. They seem to recognise the importance of well-being and stress management in learning. Do we?

Online game-based learning has risen in popularity recently, but there is still some debate about how effective it is as a learning tool. Our latest tip, with David Gatrell, explores this area and demonstrates how it can provide opportunities for language learning and motivation.

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Northanger Abbey, like Pride and Prejudice, features a range of characters who behave heroically and those who behave more villainously.

The last novel that Jane Austen had published was Persuasion.

Rather like Austen’s most famous novel, this book’s title immediately lets us know that it’s a story about emotion and reason, ethics and morals.