A few years ago, we shared with you a research conducted in 2018 and evaluating the whole-school implementation of an explicit language-based pedagogy in one of the most economically disadvantaged schools in Victoria, Australia. We are excited today to be sharing with you two exciting updates regarding this research project: We are now able to share […]

A consolidated 4-page executive summary condensing our research on whole-school improvement.

Two case studies on how to speed up our EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English.

A case study on the implementation of the TEMC course at the British International School Ukraine, where 95% of students are EAL students.

A Year 6/7 teacher shares her explicit Genre-based approach to teaching functional grammar and its metalanguage, with some outstanding results.

A research project focussing on the introduction of a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) metalanguage through both English and Italian in a Year 8 class.

A case study focusing on the explicit use of functional grammar in a Year 12 class. The data indicated that this class performed well above what was predicted.

Research evaluating the whole-school implementation of an explicit language-based pedagogy in an intensive English language school, with significant improvement in students’ results.

An English teacher scaffolds her 12-year-old students in extending their understanding about how to write a ‘spooky story', with great results seen in the texts produced.