Tag: language education
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Teaching English to Young Learners, revisited
A discussion of the effectiveness of the Greek TEYL project, based on recent publications.
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Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula
[Archive] Call for papers for the edited volume “Language, Identity and Education on the Arabian Peninsula” (Buckingham, 2016).
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What shapes language policy in education?
This post was prompted by the publication, last week, of a story in the Washington Post about changes in language use in the US over the last 30 years. Some key takeaways from the story were the decline in rank of what one might term ‘European heritage’ languages such as Greek, Italian, Yiddish and Polish,…
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Teaching English to Very Young Learners in Greece: When research findings don’t align
In this post I compare a small-study I conducted with the findings of the Greek TEYL project. Various explanations are considered, regarding the differences in our findings.