In this Integrated Science lesson plan for 14-year-old students, Thomas Cheung of TWGH Lui Yun Choy Memorial College in Hong Kong uses Lexis Education's pedagogy, such as the Teaching and Learning Cycle, scaffolding, and knowing how language works, to advance his students' understanding of how we …
Tip of the month
At Lexis Education, we’ve delivered our Tutor training programs remotely for over a year now, and we’ve learned a lot. This month, we’d like to share with you our learnings, with 6 tips for delivering a remote training that is engaging, effective and enjoyable for everyone. Keep it …
Many curricula around the world are now requiring teachers and students to have a shared knowledge about language. An explicit understanding of linguistic resources allows students to make powerful choices in a range of contexts. In this way, students are not only able to express the meanings …
This month, we give you practical tips on how to identify the differences between spoken and written language. The nature of spoken texts is to construe the world as dynamic, focusing on processes that express human and non-human actions. To do this, spoken language relies on verbs to carry …
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 …
As teachers, our role is to move students from spoken to written realms and from written to spoken. We call this moving across the register continuum. At one end of the continuum (left), there is the most spoken language which usually happens face-to-face and accompanies some kind of …