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Handwriting promotes learning more than typing, scientists claim
A Norwegian team of scientists has investigated the influence of handwriting and typing on brain activity and memory abilities.
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Novels in the classroom: Book tips per language
An overview of novels in different languages. Here you will find titles of books in the following languages:
- French,
- English,
- German,
- Spanish,
- Russian,
- Italian,
- Turkish.
The list was drawn up by the language teachers of the Department of …
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Tim Surma with a crash course in cognitive psychology
Tim Surma is research manager of the Expertise Center ExCEL and can draw on twenty years of experience in teaching in secondary education. He also co-wrote the book Wijze Lessen: twelve building blocks for effective didactics.
In 2018 he was a guest …
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Rehabilitation for the reading seminar: Towards a slow pedagogy in professionalization
The article describes a concrete form of training (reading seminar), exposes the underlying rationale, discusses the conditions and clarifies possible effects.
It is applicable within any team of education professionals, regardless of educational …
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Functional and integrated working in basic education
The Network Day of Ligo, centers for basic education, was completely dominated by their new agogic vision. Read all about it in this EPALE zine.
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Boost your foreign languages with Netflix
Blog post explaining how Language Learning with Netflix works.
Via this extension you can play subtitles on Netflix in two languages in a Chrome browser and look up vocabulary in a foreign language.
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Working with jokers: Activating work form
Students use a joker during an assignment or test. You determine in advance what that joker means: extra support, a question that is omitted or an evaluation criterion that weighs double.
In the screencast Saskia Vandeputte explains more about …
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Has everyone understood?
Has everyone understood? With that question you rarely find out what students have mastered and what not.
In this article, Saskia Vandeputte gives fifteen ways to evaluate formatively, divided into three categories:
- at the beginning of the lesson …
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6 strategies to learn a new language faster
In this article you will read some ways to boost your language acquisition.
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A picture is worth 1000 words!
Van Dale is proud to present a new series of language study books. To support the learning of a language, the Van Dale Picture Dictionaries Fr, En, Du, Sp and It are indispensable and a practical tool for your students. Click here for more …
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Language schools in 10 principles according to a survey by Rod Ellis
What do we currently know with certainty about language education? Attach ten tips for your teaching practice based on the current state of scientific research!
Secondary and foreign language education accounts for more than a third of Adult …
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Common CEFR for Modern Foreign Languages
The Council of Europe launched the Common European Framework of Reference for Modern Foreign Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessing (the CEFR) in 2001. Since then, many European countries have used this reference framework to describe and measure …
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