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How playtimes develop language in primary school children
It is fair to say that my job is pretty enjoyable. I work for Play Scotland, Scotland’s leading organisation for promoting play. I am the Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) mentor. OPAL is a school improvement programme that supports schools to make environmental and...
Review: Exploring the language of film to teach YLs visual literacy by Romina Muse
IATEFL Annual Conference, Harrogate20th April, 2023 As the out-going editor of IATEFL YLTSIG’s publication TEYLT Worldwide, I was delighted to have a role in the hugely successful YLTSIG Showcase day at the 2023 IATEFL Conference in Harrogate. Among the wide range of...
Games for very young learners
For the first issue of TEYLT in 2024, I wrote an article sharing my thoughts on some significant factors in playing games concerning very young learners’ classes. In this blog post, I am going to attempt to outline 5 language-related favorite games of mine with this...
Teens and Generative AI
Generative AI, which can generate new and original content such as written texts, images, codes and music, has attracted a lot of people's attention including English language teachers and learners, especially since the release of Chat GPT in late 2022. Nearly 80...
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