The ability to listen effectively is dependent on a complex interplay between the listener, features of the text, and the context in which the text is being listened to. While listening comprehension requires a range of abilities on the part of the listener, it is also dependent on features of the …
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How to improve students’ science literacy?
Last month, Lexis Education's Director John Polias delivered a presentation at the Australian Literacy Educators' Association Conference on improving students’ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom. In this video, John talks about how we, as …
Free webinar on 7 August 2024
Lexis Education’s EAL & Literacy Consultant, Lynette Lingard, will be presenting a free webinar on Wednesday 7 August from 4pm to 5pm AEST. Topic: Improving outcomes for multilingual learners through a language-based pedagogy. If you are interested in becoming a 'Teaching in English in …
Language and Behaviour
This article describes the early work of a Year 6/7 classroom teacher, Giuseppe Mammone, at Seaton Park Primary School in Adelaide, South Australia, in supporting students to understand what happens in their exchanges with peers, family and other adults. Its title could have been: “Developing the …
How to make a text cohesive using substitution, ellipsis and collocation
Pronouns can stand in place of things and, in that way, provide a tool for making a text cohesive. But, we can have other words stand in for things and often we can completely omit words, too, and these also help make a text cohesive. Substitution Substitution is the use of words such as ‘one’ …
Lexis Education Symposium | 28 Nov 2024 | Melbourne
Lexis Education is pleased to invite you to a one-day professional learning symposium on Thursday 28 November 2024 at the Savoy Hotel on Little Collins in Melbourne’s CBD (630 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000). Over more than two decades, Lexis Education has worked in many educational …