International Presentation of LdL and BGE

Last week I was at a conference of the Senat der Wirtschaft (Senate of the Economy) in Austria.

BGE Course in Memmingen, Day 2+3

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.

BGE as Company-Internal Training, Day 1

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.

Spread of BGE as a Training Offer in the Working World

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.

Portrait of Jean-Pol Martin

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).

 

Joachim Grzega

BGE material for kids in Portuguese

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

 

Joachim Grzega

BGE for self-teaching and for adult learner groups

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.

BGE for Self-Teaching

I would like to quote three passages that have helped in furthering the Basic Global English projects during the past months:

LdL in a teacher journal article

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.“

Joachim Grzega

BGE and the European Day of Languages

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.