The challenge of building a profile for language courses in what Tony Liddicoat has described as the “monolingual mindset of Australia” is well known. If those of us struggle to do so in metropolitan areas when we have access to resources such as restaurants staffed by native speakers, foreign …
Student Engagement
Improving productive skills via contemporary issues
If you are looking for a different way to develop your students speaking, reading and writing skills in Japanese, then perhaps you should try this controversial method. One of the challenges of a language teacher, particularly at the secondary level, is that the level of target language …
The new differentiation
Are you struggling with elective class enrolments? Feel like you are constantly fighting for support from the executive? Your problem may lie in differentiation – although not from the traditional perspective. Differentiation is how we shape our teaching and learning activities to support the …
