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Digital Storytelling for Younger & Older Learners

March 25, 2015

<![CDATA[ Digital Storytelling & Young Learners Picture this: …a teacher holding up her laptop or tablet and a circle of children listening to her and following the digital images of her imagination, completely absorbed in the world she has been weaving for them through her narration. Now Picture this: …a teacher holding up a book…
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Watching Young Learners at Work: From Practice to Principle

May 29, 2010

<![CDATA[This post is based on three activities on video with a young class in their first year of English videotaped as part of a training project for a course on teaching young learners. Photo Credit: woodleywonderworks via Compfight cc Some information about the young class At the point of being video-taped, this class of Greek…
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What is a Crocodile?

September 12, 2009

I think many educators have read this post which was sent to me via e-mail. I cannot even remember who first sent it to me. The email contained the pupil’s name but I have not published it, as I recently discovered that this was not a fictitious name but a very real one – the…
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How many books to teach a six year old?

August 26, 2009

Yannis is 6 years old and last year his parents decided it was about time he started learning English. So they enrolled him in the local foreign language centre, part of a big franchise of similar centres in Greece and the Balkans. What is the best way of teaching young pre-school children English? Well, this…
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Digital Storytelling for Younger & Older Learners

Watching Young Learners at Work: From Practice to Principle

What is a Crocodile?

How many books to teach a six year old?

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