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LEND è lieto di annunciare le seguenti iniziative del British Council Italy:

1. Il British Council e la ALTE CONFERENCE 2011

“The Impact of Language Frameworks on Assessment, Learning and Teaching, viewed from the perspectives of Policies, Procedures and Challenges”

The 4th International ALTE Conference on Language Testing is being held in Krakow, Poland, from July 7th to 9th 2011. Plenaries and parallel sessions will be delivered by a range of authorities, and in a range of languages. Please see www.alte.org/2011 for full information.

The British Council will have a blogger at the event. His blog will be available for anyone interested to follow it at the following address:

www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/ericatkinson/alte-conference-blog.

2. The seminar “Extensive Reading in the English Language Classroom” is being organised by The British Embassy, the British Council and the OUP at the British Ambassador’s residence - Villa Wolkonsky - on Thursday 7 July 2011 at 15.30 hours.  The project is aimed at Italian teachers of English. 

A Brief Outline of the Project:

Teachers on the programme receive a mobile library of graded fiction and non-fiction readers.  They are free to choose which class would most benefit from the scheme and it is best to limit the library to one group of students in middle to upper school who have the independence and maturity to benefit most from the programme’s range of books.  Once, the scheme is established in a school, more teachers can become involved with their own libraries. 

The programme provides four to five books for each student in the participating class ensuring that the borrowing system works smoothly.  The books range from a heavily illustrated starter level with a vocabulary limited to 250 head- words and basic grammatical constructions through six further levels of increasing lexical, grammatical and syntactic complexity.  The fiction includes both classic novels and modern stories.  Most teachers who have worked with Extensive Reading find that student librarians are enthusiastic and efficient monitors of the lending process and it is rare that books are damaged or lost.

Extensive Reading is recognised as one of the best methods of stimulating effective language learning not only for second language acquisition but also for consolidating skills in the mother tongue. 

To ensure a place at the seminar please send confirmation of your attendance to Christina Caughlan of Oxford University Press:  Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo.