ASEcoLi’s Blog by Joachim Grzega

Research blog for current projects and creative ideas at the Academy for SocioEconomic Linguistics

International Presentation of LdL and BGE

Posted by asecoli on January 28, 2010

Last week I was at a conference of the Senat der Wirtschaft (Senate of the Economy) in Austria. Read the rest of this entry »

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BGE Course in Memmingen, Day 2+3

Posted by asecoli on January 27, 2010

Day 2 and 3 of the adult BGE course at a company in Memmingen went very well (2x 90 min. per day). The group was very heterogeneous on Day 1, but the distance between the better participants and the weaker ones could already be diminished. Read the rest of this entry »

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BGE as Company-Internal Training, Day 1

Posted by asecoli on January 12, 2010

A new BGE Experiment has begun. Today was the first lesson with a new BGE adult group, a company-internal training. The plan is to teach them 2 lessons (= 2 x 90 min.) each Monday, with a lunch break in between. The group consisted of “false beginners”, i.e. all learners already studied English some decades ago, but think they’ve forgotten most of it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Spread of BGE as a Training Offer in the Working World

Posted by asecoli on December 22, 2009

Several conversations that I had over the past two weeks showed me that there is a good chance that BGE will become more widespread in adult training, too—both inside and outside Bavaria. Read the rest of this entry »

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Portrait of Jean-Pol Martin

Posted by asecoli on November 12, 2009

The latest issue of the German journal GEO Wissen includes a portrait of Jean-Pol Martin and LdL – plus a photo with some of his Eichstätt disciples (Bea Klüsener, Laura Cau, Michael Kratky and me).

 

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BGE material for kids in Portuguese

Posted by asecoli on November 2, 2009

The BGE handouts for kids are now also available in a (Brazilian) Portuguese version.

 

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BGE for self-teaching and for adult learner groups

Posted by asecoli on October 23, 2009

The next milestone of the BGE project is reached: Both the German accompanying material for the self-teaching book Welcome to the World! and the German adult-group handbook Welcome, Global Players! are now among ASEcoLi’s products. Read the rest of this entry »

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BGE for Self-Teaching

Posted by asecoli on October 11, 2009

I would like to quote three passages that have helped in furthering the Basic Global English projects during the past months: Read the rest of this entry »

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LdL in a teacher journal article

Posted by asecoli on September 30, 2009

On p. 48/49 of its October 2009 edition the German teacher journal Praxis Geographie refers to an LdL article that was written by Marion Schöner and me and published in the Journal of Education for Teaching. It is an empirical study on the effectivity and efficiency of LdL from university students’ perspectives: “The Didactic Model LdL (Lernen durch Lehren) as a Way of Preparing Students for Communication in a Knowledge Society.

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BGE and the European Day of Languages

Posted by asecoli on September 26, 2009

Today is the European Day of Languages. Therefore, I would already like to give the link to the self-teaching material for Basic Global English here, on an inofficial basis. Read the rest of this entry »

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