Jul 22
Young children have a lot to fit into each school day. So making the best use of the little time allocated to learning a foreign language is paramount. In England, state primary schools have been required to offer children aged seven to 11 a foreign language since 2014. This seems to chime with the common …
Jul 22
Pre-service teachers must spend a few months working in schools to practice their craft and learn from qualified educators. This is an important part of their training, but it doesn’t allow pre-service teachers to work for an extended period with the same group of learners. The absence of such a sustained, intense interaction deprives pre-service …
Jul 22
When the iPhone launched in 2007, few could have predicted the impact it would have on education. One of the most powerful developments in education has been the arrival of language learning apps. Regardless of which device you use, one of the main drivers in the mobile learning revolution is the sheer number of apps …
Jul 22
Around 70 million people – including Bill Gates – have signed up for the language learning app Duolingo. The app has received plenty of media attention, and its creators claim that it can help anyone with a smart phone learn a new language. The app is free, and promises all kinds of cutting edge features, …
Jul 22
It is important to encourage children to learn English as long as they already master their mother tongue. www.shutterstock.com Novi Rahayu Restuningrum secured a funding from the Indonesian government through DIKTI program to continue her PhD from 2011 to 2015 at Monash University, Australia. The use of English in everyday life is on the rise …
Jul 22
Senior Lecturer in Education; Director of the Second Language Speech Lab, University of Bristol Talia Isaacs received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (with co-author Pavel Trofimovich) and the European Commission (Marie Curie Career Integration Grant) to support this study. Kazuya Saito received Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research funding in Japan. …
Jul 22
Florence Myles received funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Funding Council) for the study ‘Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes of learning amongst early foreign language learners’ (ESRC RES-062-23-1545). As primary school children bound through the first weeks of their summer holidays, perhaps …
Jul 22
Learning a language in a classroom is best for early teenagers. from Warren Midgley Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Southern Queensland Warren Midgley ne travaille pas, ne conseille pas, ne possède pas de parts, ne reçoit pas de fonds d’une organisation qui pourrait tirer profit de cet article, et n’a déclaré aucune autre …
Jul 19
Language evolution is like biological evolution—it happens minutely, generation by generation, so there’s no distinct breaking point between one language and the next language that develops from it. Therefore, it’s impossible to say that one language is really older than any other one; they’re all as old as humanity itself. That said, each of the …
Jul 04
The concept of operational excellence effectively started in the manufacturing industry with concepts like Lean and Six Sigma and the Toyota Production System. A challenge is that we have become so heavily reliant upon these methodologies that we sometimes forget to use good judgment and common sense. Operational excellence is a mindset, not a methodology. …
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