Agregador: The Language Gym
Nº de artículos: 46
Blog en inglés de Gianfranco Conti, un experto en lingüística aplicada y adquisición de segundas lenguas, dirigido a profesores de lenguas. En él ofrece análisis y reflexiones basadas en la investigación sobre cómo se adquieren y enseñan los idiomas. Aborda metodologías, creencias docentes, evaluación y práctica en el aula, conectando teoría y experiencia para mejorar la enseñanza de lenguas.
Inttoduction Over the years, through workshops, conferences, social media and conversations with teachers, I have noticed that the very same questions about EPI keep coming back. They are important questions because they concern what ultimately matters most: how we move from supported performance... Leer más
Here is the list of the upcoming research-informed workshops for those who intend to pursue the EPI accreditation, want to learn a bit more about EPI or simply widen there repertoire of engaging activities across all four language skills. The links below will direct you to the University of Bath’s... Leer más
Here is the list of the upcoming research-informed workshops for those who intend to pursue the EPI accreditation, want to learn a bit more about EPI or simply widen there repertoire of engaging activities across all four language skills. The links below will direct you to the University of Bath’s... Leer más
Introduction I have written extensively in my books and on this blog about the more obvious fundamentals of vocabulary teaching: retrieval practice, recycling, chunking, spacing and interleaving. So, let us be clear: this is not another post about those things. This post is about some of the less... Leer más
Here is a list of all my upcoming online workshops I will conduct for the University of Bath Spa’s Network For Learning. As you can see below it covers a vast array of topics and includes new topics. Every workshop is evidence based and offers a wide range of effective hands-on classroom activities... Leer más
I have rarely been as concerned about a development in language education as I was about the pedagogy promoted by the National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy (NCELP), led by Emma Marsden and Rachel Hawkes. This was not because everything the NCELP advocated was wrong. Far from it.... Leer más
Introduction I think this is something we sometimes forget when planning that all-important first lesson back.Several weeks may have passed without the retrieval demands, sustained attention, routines an social constraints of school, which means that knowledge which appeared perfectly secure before... Leer más
Intoduction I am obviously biased. I co-created The Language Gym, so nobody should expect me to pretend otherwise. However, there is astrong research-informed case for using it which goes well beyond the fact that students enjoy the games. The Language Gym was built around a simple metaphor:... Leer más
The new GCSE MFL textbooks: a major improvement, but are they really built for language acquisition?
Introduction The new GCSE French, German and Spanish specifications have triggered one of the most significant changes in MFL textbook design for many years and, compared with previous generations of GCSE resources, the new books are much more attentive to phonics, high frequency vocabulary,... Leer más
Introduction As l have experienced first-hand, Mandarin presents language learners with a particularly demanding set of challenges. They need to develop new sound categories, perceive and produce lexical tones, build sound–meaning connections, learn a large numbers of characters and develop an... Leer más