Ce module de français langue étrangère (FLE) comprend une activité de compréhension de l’oral et une activité de compréhension de l’écrit liées toutes deux par une même thématique et bâties sur le modèle d'un sujet de certification. More...
A unique mix of activities exploring the relationship of language learning and social media in the web 2.0 era: Participatory debates, award-winning competitions, policy recommendations and reports, scientific publications and field studies. More...
By Lisa Springer - Evolllution. The growing importance of the international marketplace to institutional viability has led many colleges and universities to invest more time and resources in their intensive international English-language programs. After all, these programs often act as a welcoming mat for international learners who need to gain language competency before being fully accepted into a degree-granting program. Some universities have simply strengthened their commitment to their in-house language educators, while others have outsourced their intensive English programs to vendors. More...
By Bob Gilmour - Evolllution. By 2025, more than 8 million students will want to study outside of their home countries according to the OECD’s Education at a Glance—an increase of nearly 6 million students since 2000. More...
By Scott Stevens - Evolllution. In the more than thirty years I have devoted to the field of English as a Second Language (ESL), the role and status of Intensive English Programs (IEPs) have changed profoundly. In the 1980s, IEPs were relegated to hand-me-down space no other program wanted: dank basements or musty attics. ESL faculty were, for the most part, poorly paid adjuncts to whom security, promotion and living wages were denied. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Taxi drivers in Rio de Janeiro have been offered free English courses to improve communication with tourists during next year’s Olympics. Some 10,000 online courses will be provided to drivers under the plan, a joint initiative between Rio 2016, Radio Globo and the English First group, reported Xinhua. More...
Regent University is adding 40 academic programs in the coming year, but is cutting low-enrollment programs, especially in languages, The Virginian-Pilot reported. University officials said the shifts responded to the interests of students and prospective students. Among the new programs are cybersecurity, computer science and healthcare management. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The world of learning analytics is full of metaphors. Educational-technology companies are “islands,” disconnected from one another. Data are locked away in “silos.” As an initiative to standardize the collection and reporting of learning analytics nears a public launch, can colleges and vendors learn to speak the same language. Read more...
By Allan Metcalf. We want our language to be free of bias, don’t we? Surely anyone of good will would want to be polite to others rather than unintentionally insulting them. More...
By Lucy Ferriss. Elie Wiesel said that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. What, then, is the opposite of hate? The answer, it seems to me, changes when we accuse the person rather than the hate or the hating. In today’s parlance, a hater is not simply someone who hates — or rather, the variety of hate has become narrower and more specific. In politics, there are Hillary haters. Tom Brady recently called an ESPN commentator a “Patriot hater.” Anyone who writes in a forum, like this one, that invites comments is advised to ignore the haters. More...
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