Video update on the week’s activities
Josh Underwood provides feedback on the week’s activities in a video update. This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. This video was recorded on Saturday 16th May, in Spain. …
Course: Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching
Task: Facebook discussion with BC tutors
Live Facebook discussion with British Council tutors about the challenges and joys of e-tutoring and online learning. Tutors from the British Council, and members of your online tutoring team held …
Differences between online learning and f2f learning
What are the differences between online learning and learning face-to-face (f2f) in the classroom? In this video, Paul Braddock talks about some of the key benefits of online learning and …
Video update on the week’s activities
Josh Underwood has provided feedback on the week’s activities in a video update. This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. Josh talks about his 3 principal beliefs about language …
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
Another popular approach in current language teaching practice is CLIL: Content and language integrated learning. In this video, Julia Hüttner describes what CLIL is and outlines some of the reasons …
Naturalistic vs classroom learning
In this video, Emeritus Professor Rosamund Mitchell, Dr Richard Kiely and Dr Julia Hüttner discuss naturalistic and classroom language learning. What are the differences between naturalistic learning and classroom learning? …
Video update on the week’s activities
Jo Dixon will provide feedback on the week’s activities in a video update. This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube. This video was recorded on 17th October. Conversations to …
How do we acquire meaning: the bottleneck hypothesis
In this video, Roumyana Slabakova begins to consider what is hard and what is easy in learning a second language. She starts out by considering the more problematic aspects of …
What is meaning?
“Few people start learning a second language for the exotic sounds, or for the elegant sentence structure. Meaning is what we are all after. We would all like to understand …
Recording of live discussion
This is a recording of the live Facebook discussion on 16th May. Josh Underwood and Kate Borthwick answer live questions from the course.
Recording of Live Facebook discussion
This is a recording of our live Facebook discussion. Josh Underwood and Kate Borthwick answered questions from the course and talked about online learning. This took place on Wednesday 28th …