A lot of our tutors have been wondering what exactly has changed with our new TEMC course and whether they should keep delivering TESMC or move to TEMC. In this email, we give you the lowdown on the changes and what it means for you as a tutor. Brand new name Teaching ESL students in …
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Our new TEMC and 3L remote tutor training courses have received a tremendous response from teachers from around the world. We are humbled to see our work being received with such positivity and enthusiasm, and we look forward to bringing an explicit language-based pedagogy to more schools. …
We are excited to be announcing our partnership with the EAL Academy, school improvement specialists and leaders in the fields of academic literacy, ethnic minority achievement and EAL. The EAL Academy will be the exclusive provider of our 3L: Language and literacy for learning tutor training in …
We are excited to be sharing the research conducted in 2020 by Dr. Dorota Pomagalska, ‘Outcomes of a functional grammar-based pedagogy in an intensive English language school’. This report provides a summary of the evaluation of the whole school implementation of an explicit language-based pedagogy …
Dear colleagues, We are thrilled to announce today the launch of the new versions/editions of the Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms (TESMC) and Literacy for learning (LfL) courses, respectively renamed: Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC), and Language and …
I am a TESMC/LfL Tutor. How am I impacted? If you are already a TESMC/LfL Tutor, you have a choice between delivering the new TEMC/3L courses or delivering the previous TESMC/LfL courses. With your experience delivering TESMC/LfL and implementing the courses’ pedagogy in your school, we have …
Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Lexis team, we send our best wishes to all of you during these uncertain and difficult times. We commend all of you who are working to maintain continuity of education and a much needed sense of normality for your students. The safety and well-being of our …
The systemic functional model (e.g. Halliday and Hasan 1985, Halliday and Matthiessen 2004), on which all Lexis Education’s courses are based, has had an enormous impact on educational contexts in Australia and around the world. Genre-based pedagogy, where the teaching of grammar is part of an …
Language plays a central role in teaching and learning. If we want our students confidently reading and writing across the range of genres and registers required by schooling, then we need to understand how language works to make meaning. Our experience has shown us that the Systemic Functional …
When we interact with others, we are involved in four major exchanges: making statements, asking for information, offering something, or demanding something. The grammar for these exchanges is ‘played with’ for a range of purposes, such as asserting power, being sarcastic or being polite. In …
A very successful Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms tutor training in Melbourne this month. Thank you to Templestowe Primary School for hosting our 5 participants. They were thoroughly impressed with the quality of the materials and the delivery, and look forward to running the Teacher …
An interview with Vivek Nair, Director at School of the Nations Vivek Nair is the Director at School of the Nations. He undertook the Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (TESMC) tutor training in 2019 and recently delivered his first Teacher Course as a certified tutor. Tell us a …
Close reading is “an approach to teaching comprehension that insists students extract meaning from text by examining carefully how language is used in the passage itself” (Snow and O’Connor, 2013). This approach can be used with young children and will help develop their understanding of a …
We are very excited to share a very useful resource produced by the Department of Education and Training in Victoria. The EAL Effective Practice Interactive Guide features a series of literacy-based video case studies and resources, and follows the successful implementation of Lexis Education's …
Effective writers and speakers are able make language choices across the text to engage their audiences, creating a sense of solidarity with them and influencing them to share their view of the world. Our students need to learn how to do this and particularly how to make their stance clear in the …
Words by Fiona Kettle-Muspratt. Fiona is a peripatetic ESL teacher in the Gold Coast region of the state of Queensland in Australia. She works with all levels of ESL students (new arrivals through to extension) from Year 1-7 in groups from 4 to 10. Tim is a 12-year-old ESL student. Here are three …
Words by Daniele Sinniger, EAL Teacher at IPS Hilversum. IPS Hilversum is an international primary school that offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) PYP ( Primary Years Programme) curriculum. IPS Hilversum is also part of the Dutch International Primary School Association (DIPS), which …
A very successful Literacy for Learning tutor training in Melbourne this month. Thank you to Craigieburn Secondary College for hosting our 18 participants. Great course. Very engaging and interactive. The original LfL course that I did spearheaded my enthusiasm and expanded on my love for …
Tense is an important aspect of the English language but many languages do not have tense and so, initially, it can be a major hurdle for multilingual students. The problem for these students is that there are many tense choices available and using traditional terms to name each one, such as present …
Adam Monnington is a Year 4 class teacher at Britannica International School in Shanghai where he has worked for the past 5 years. Adam also has responsibility for English as a cross phase co-ordinator from EYFS to Secondary. Part of this position is what initially led him towards the …
Visual representation categorises and organises ideas in a particular way. This broad term encompasses other terms such as graphic outline, structured overview and concept map. It is one of a number of pre-reading strategies which assists students to gain meaning from the text by: providing a …
We are thrilled to announce that Lexis Education has won theRunner Up prize at the prestigious COBIS Supporting Member of the Year Awards 2019. We would like to thank the wonderful British School of Jakarta for nominating us. We are genuinely humbled to receive such warm recognition from the …
The human brain is a hugely complex organ and the talk about it is complex and often hotly contested. The fact that it garners a lot of attention in the media as well as in popular literature makes talk of the brain increasingly interesting, and necessary, for educators. This article sets out to …
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 …
Thank you to the Australian International School Hong Kong for hosting a highly successful Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms tutor training. Really enjoyed doing this. Heavy impact. I have grown considerably in 5 days! Intense but very useful. It will take some thought and time to pull …
The British School Jakarta has been present in Jakarta for over 40 years and has a role of 1,400 students aged 3 to 18. In 2015, BSJ decided to implement Lexis Education's Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC) course, a language-based pedagogy to accelerate multilingual …
Providing a high-challenge curriculum for all students By Brian Dare When we take a moment to consider the range of texts students are expected to compose and comprehend in any schooling context, we begin to understand the enormity of the meaning-making challenge that all students face as they …
We are excited to announce that Lexis Education is now a COBIS Supporting Member. COBIS is the premier global membership association for British international schools overseas. COBIS delivers world-class quality assurance and external validation through the COBIS Patron’s Accreditation and …
An interview with Lois L. Warner Ph.D., Assistant Director for Curriculum at the International Academy Amman Do you find the Lexis Education programs to be cost effective? As the director of PD at my school, I have been looking for this model (train-the-trainer) to fill as many of our needs as …
New book champions NNESTs and TESMC in ESL and MT provision by Maurice Carder In many international schools the majority of students aren’t native speakers of the school’s Language of Instruction, which in 90% of cases is English. Clearly then, the schools need to provide a programme structure, …