The Polyglot Gathering is an annual event that brings together Polyglots from around the globe for 4 days of lectures, activities and seminars about language learning, which take place in every imaginable language.
“Guidelines for CLIL Implementation in Primary and Pre-primary Education” is the outcome of knowledge and experiences gained by the PROCLIL team over three years (2006-2009) of implementing and researching CLIL in four different European countries.
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is the most common term used in the European setting to describe the approach to teaching a curriculum subject through a foreign language, with the dual focus of acquiring more subject knowledge and improving one’s skills and competences in the foreign language.
A handbook for teachers which provides: theoretical underpinnings of vocabulary learning and teaching teaching plans learning and teaching materials vocabulary games and activities useful references on vocabulary learning and teaching a preamble to the development of the Wordlists for the English Language Curriculum.
General Education and Language Teaching Methodology
This book presents a selection of papers on teaching English as a foreign language and the role of language education in human development. As thinking skills rely on language, language education should exceed utilitarian and everyday communicative needs and should be the basis for developing other school subjects. The book provides practical suggestions for language teaching, for the development of logical thinking and the understanding of the linguistic relationship between the first and the second languages in a historical perspective.
