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In this section you can find links to interesting/topical articles related to English Language Teaching.
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Lighting the touch paper to learning – where to put the match
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It’s one thing to analyse and identify the failings and challenges that education faces, but it’s another to engage in the solution. Unusually for a journalist, Charles Leadbeater appears unafraid.So if the theorists behind Every Child Matters and personalisation of learning wanted to set their reforms ablaze, and were handed a box of matches, where would they start? Read more
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CAELA Digests and Q&As
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CAELA's publications provide information about literacy education for adults learning English as a second language (ESL). Digests and Q&As address such topics as assessment and evaluation, professional development, improving language skills, ESL methods and approaches, program design, and workplace and vocational ESL.
You can find the 72 digests and Q & As listed alphabetically. Read more
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Free Online Curriculum Helps Teachers Take Storytelling Into The Digital Age
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Target Stores, Scholastic, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have partnered with Sube Learning language thru Art, Music and Games, a New Mexico-based innovator in language education, to offer a free online curriculum designed to bring Digital Storytelling training to the widest possible population. This powerful new medium allows ordinary people, with little computer experience and with readily available electronic tools, to create three- to four-minute video clips that can be played on a computer, shared as an email or played on a television. Read more
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Perspectives on early years and digital technologies
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This publication is a first for us as it brings together early work from Futurelab’s PhD studentship network. This network was set up to bring together PhD students and their supervisors from Bristol, Nottingham and Stirling universities to explore how these different groups might, collaboratively, explore challenging questions around the role of digital technologies in young children’s learning. Read more
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Introductory Brief to ELP Standards & Assessment Framework
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The Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center is pleased to announce the availability of a new introductory brief to the "Framework for High-Quality English Language Proficiency Standards and Assessments." The introduction presents the intended purpose, uses, and organization of the Framework, as well as key background information and assumptions. Read more
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Moving Teaching and Learning with Technology from Adoption to Transformation
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Information technology has been an important part of higher education since the development of the lantern slide in the mid-1800s. However, occasions in which the academy has been transformed by technology are rare. Viewed in a historical perspective, these occasions can be considered as a series of three epochs: the online public-access catalog epoch; the personal computer, Internet, and web epoch. Read more
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Virtual Worlds Research Discussion Group
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Welcome to the Virtual Worlds Researcher's Group. The group was the conceived by Greg Wadley/Grog Waydelich as a forum for discussing current and planned research projects, methods and methodology. Read more
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