Monthly Archives: June 2021

1. Boris Johnson gets plenty of media coverage. How about a lesson on Keir Starmer, the leader of the UK opposition Labour party? Here’s a video of Starmer’s regular weekly radio show on LBC Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gVP-_-cFM (LBC means Leading Britain’s … Continue reading →

1. The latest event in the Leiden University Virtual Research Seminar Series on Language Policy and Practices in the Global North and South will be at 12:15 UK time on Wednesday, 16th June with Dr Elisabeth Barakos from Hamburg University: … Continue reading →

1. Still plenty of time to register for the Sheffield University Institute of Education conference, CLIL 2021 The ADiBE Project: Addressing Diversity in Bilingual Education, next Saturday, 19th June. More info and registration link here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clil-2021-the-adibe-project-addressing-diversity-in-bilingual-education-registration-144662903639 and programme, including some … Continue reading →

1. Lots of action on the climate front at present: no fewer than twelve new lesson plans here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/climate-action-language-education-lesson-plans and the PDF below is this month’s newsletter on the Climate Action in Language Education programme, including news of Episode 3 … Continue reading →

1. Spotted by my colleague Ann: the publication Grading Goal Four, edited by Antonia Wulff from Education International (who I mentioned a few weeks ago), reviews the progress we’ve made to date towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: Ensure inclusive … Continue reading →

1. I’d have loved one of these when I was teaching, the Pearson Text Analyser (PTA) https://www.english.com/blog/gse-text-analyzer/ Here’s a blog post about it https://www.english.com/gse/teacher-toolkit/user/textanalyzer I tried the PTA out on the first six paragraphs of this article from today’s Guardian, … Continue reading →

1. Parents with a migration background: What does it take to raise bilingual children? is the title of the next lecture in the University of Leiden’s Language policy and practices in the Global North and South: Challenges, opportunities and future … Continue reading →

1. A nice idea from Cambridge University Press that I’ve somehow missed hitherto, their annual Dedicated Teacher Award https://dedicatedteacher.cambridge.org/ Here’s an e-book with the global shortlist of sixty teachers (from nearly 13,000 entries) https://www.calameo.com/cupeducation/read/006433997c5be0a2d94a7 and here’s the even shorter shortlist … Continue reading →

1. Another good thing with a long name: Intercultural Citizenship Education through Picturebooks in Primary ELT – ICEPELL for short! Their next symposium is on 7th and 8th June, starting at 09:00 UK time each day. Programme here (NB! Norwegian … Continue reading →

1. It’s that time of year again! Nominations for the ELTons Outstanding Achievement Award are now open until Sunday 27 June. The Outstanding Achievement Award recognises and celebrates people who have made a lasting, extraordinary impact on teaching and learning, … Continue reading →