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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Outstanding feedback from our new courses
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. …
Announcement: Lexis Education/EAL Academy partnership
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 …
Outcomes of a functional grammar-based pedagogy in an intensive English language school
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 …
Spoken versus written language: identifying differences
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 new TESMC and LfL are here: introducing TEMC and 3L
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 …