Tuesday, 2 June 2020

New Media in Language Education/Developing Online Teaching Skills

DOTS

Many language teachers want to use up-to-date technology in their teaching but often do not have the time or resources for the necessary training. This training kit presents bite-size activities for ten popular tools that even the busiest language professional can fit into their schedule. Working through training units which can be completed in around 30 minutes, teachers will get to know the uses and pedagogic benefits of online tools and learn how to integrate them into their language classes.
On the workspace users can join a community of language professionals and online teaching experts to watch video clips of experts explaining their use of tools and discuss different experiences and needs. They can also create their own training activities, upload materials for others to use, and translate the existing activities into various languages.

Monday, 25 May 2020

CERF MATRIX



Dear colleagues,
The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) of the Council of Europe is pleased to announce the completion in both English and French of its CEFR-QualiMatrix resource website “A quality assurance matrix for CEFR use” (www.ecml.at/CEFRqualitymatrix), an output of the ECML programme “Languages at the heart of learning” (2016-2019).
The CEFR-QualiMatrix supports teachers and other language education professionals in engaging in curriculum renewal supported by the CEFR action-oriented approach vision of teaching and learning.
Alongside the matrix tool, the website provides a rich collection of resources and promising practices that can be used by different stakeholders at the levels of policy, curriculum development, teaching and assessment.
We would be grateful if you could use your networks to spread the word about this new publication. We believe that particularly in these challenging times, the resources and ideas provided on this platform will give professionals inspiration and help them foster effective language learning.
All you need to do is forward this email, deleting the text of the message before you press send. Your recipients will then only receive the embedded image.
Many thanks in advance,
Kind regards,
Sarah BRESLIN
Executive Director 

https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2016-2019/QualityassuranceandimplementationoftheCEFR/tabid/1870/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

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