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 …
Why language should be placed at the centre of education
Why should language be placed at the centre of education? In any learning context, the ways teachers and students use language with each other has a major impact on the quality of the learning taking place. Equally, students’ ability to use language to read and write the multitude of texts from all …
One teacher’s perspective on breaking down the Teaching and Learning Cycle (TLC)
Lorraine Batres is an NAP teacher (Grades 2/3/4) at the Western English Language School in Victoria, Australia, who recently completed the How Language Works course. She explains how the course helped her achieve a dramatic increase in students’ achievements, in particular using one of the course's …