Teacher resources

Silvia Minardi (REAL President) looks at how pupils' reading skills can be developed. The workshop presentation was given at the seminar organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations: REAL "REAL-CEFR: The Common European Framework for Languages: from theory to practice, Grenoble (France)" in August 2011.

Alix Creuzé and Sarah Dosch from the Institut Français present a website designed for learning French and developing intercultural skills : 'Vivre en Aquitaine'. This workshop was run at the REAL-TICE seminar in June 2011 in Madrid. 

In this presentation given at the REAL-TICE Seminar in Madrid, June 2011, Guido Custers (Association of French Teachers in the Flemish Community) looks at the possibilities offered to language teachers by web 2.0. 

Dans le cadre de l'apprentissage / enseignement des langues, les médias représentent avant tout une source inépuisable de documents et de lieux de rencontre de la langue cible. Ils permettent d'accéder à des connaissances autres que linguistiques et de trouver des supports d'apprentissage en lien étroit avec les objectifs ou les intérêts thématiques de chaque groupe d'apprenants. Michel Boiron, directeur du CAVILAM, revient sur cette thématique.

All of us feel overwhelmed when we think about all the information available on the internet to help teach languages. We recognise the wealth of information it offers us but often feel dragged down by the shear weight of what we find. The question is: how can we confront this apparently teeming chaos?

In this lecture Christoph Edelhoff (The English Academy) takes a look at task-based learning in the European context. The presentation was given at the seminar organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations: REAL "Bringing Europe into the Foreign Languages Classroom, Augsburg (Germany)" in September 2010.

In current debate, reading and reading comprehension are not only considered as basic competences, but are increasingly being recognised as ways of understanding the “other” and of promoting intercultural action and learning. In this presentation, members of the TEA-Forum, a group of leading German didactics specialists, discuss new ways of thinking about reading. 

Daniel Coste (Ecole normale supérieure Lyon, France and Expert at the Council of Europe) discusses the future of language teaching in Europe. The presentation was given at the seminar "Bringing Europe into the Foreign Languages Classroom", in Augsburg (Germany) organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations (REAL) in September 2010.

In this lecture Michael Byram (Emeritus Professor at Durham University, UK) looks at the relationship between language and identity. 

Silvia Minardi (REAL President) discusses Assessment within the European Framework of Reference for Languages. The presentation was given at the seminar organised by the European Network of Language Teacher Associations: REAL "REAL-CEFR: The Common European Framework for Languages: from theory to practice, Grenoble (France)" on 25 August 2011.

Franel is a new project to learn French or Dutch.

This article by Jean-Yves Petitgirard (former President of the French Association des professeurs de langues vivantes and Director of Centre universitaire des études françaises) provides tips on how to go about creating your own teaching resources using video and audio.

The English workshop of the REAL seminar “How to motivate students: innovation and creativity in the language classroom” took place at the Department for Polish Language and Culture in the World. The English workshop was run by Elisabeth Fotheringham, independent language consultant and was attended by 19 teachers of English from countries from the UK to Greece.

In this workshop held at the seminar “How to motivate students: innovation and creativity in language classes” teachers of Polish as a foreign language from a wide variety of countries and teaching to a variety of different groups came together to explore how to make their lessons more interactive and creative.

This workshop, held at a REAL seminar in Krakow, August 2010, demonstrates how action and student-oriented activities can be integrated into lessons without it having a detrimental effect on everyday textbook-based work. On the contrary, it was clearly shown how using supplementary resources to cover classroom topics can help to make German foreign language teaching interactive, creative and motivating.

It would seem blatantly obvious that some kind of propelling force is needed for any kind of human action to be completed. In language learning, motivation is extremely important. Without it, learning is inefficient and, what’s more, learners become discouraged and dissatisfied.