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. Further language versions are planned.

An extract of Welcome to the World! – Deutsche Begleitmaterialien is available here. The book costs 8 EUR.

An extract of Welcome, Global Players! – Deutsche Version is available here. The book costs 9.50 EUR.

Joachim Grzega

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:

• UN Millennium Declaration (“to promote greater harmony and tolerance in all societies”, “allowing genuine participation by all citizens in all our countries”)
• UN Declaration of Human Rights Art. 26 (“Education … shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations”)
• UN Declaration of Human Rights Art. 27 (“the right freely … to share in scientific advancement and its benefits”)

We have now mastered the next stage of our vision “global competences globally”: in order to enable everybody a fair chance in getting access to international information and communication the self-teaching basic material Welcome to the World is now available via the BGE website and the ASEcoLi website. As was announced, the basic book is for free. The “luxury equipment” will be available for a fair price.

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. When the accompanying material is ready in 2-3 weeks, there will also be an official publication on the BGE website and the ASEcoLi website. As a social-enterpreneurial contribution the central materials will be accessible for free.

The European Day of Languages has been celebrated since the European Year of Languages in 2001. It commemorates the promotion of multilingualism. I regard BGE as one way to multilingualism. Many people are afraid that a promotion of English as a thread to other languages. But I see it as a component of global trilingualism, or “global triglossia” as I have called it (and as it can be read in my publications, e.g. in an article in the Journal for EuroLinguistiX). This means that I see BGE as door-opener to other cultures. Once English has allowed to communicate with people from another culture, I can decide to delve into this culture in a more thorough way and start to learn the language(s) of that culture. When I am talking to people about this, I always use the same example, which happened when we taught BGE to children in a EU project. The German kids were not only able to communicative with their EU partner-schools via letters, but when they were in Italy they could already talk to their Italian partner-kids on a basic level. They found it so interesting that they asked their principal also for a course in “Italian”. Basic Global English as a door-opener to Italian; and it can be a door-opener to other languages, too.

Joachim Grzega

Close to completion: BGE materials for adults

The work on BGE materials for self-study has required my full attention of the past weeks. It was a very tough task to find good “transcultural” or “culture-free” pictures and to create good intercultural dialogs. The book is practically finished; however, there are a few technical problems due to the size of the file.

Also completed are: the accompanying book for German autodidacts and the accompanying book for German adult learner groups. They will soon be available to the public.

Joachim Grzega

New material for sale!

ASEcoLi offers a new book: How to Become the Perfect Intercultural Professor – Tricks and Bricks for Intercultural Academic Teaching in English (and Other Languages).

In this book I bring my experience with, and ideas of, English as a global means of communication in an atmosphere of empathy and tolerance to the advanced level of “Global English for Academic Contexts”.

This book predominantly wants to take away fears from instructors who have to give courses in their discipline in English as non-natives and to provide them with “bricks and tricks” that enable a more comfortable atmosphere for both sides of the intercultural group, the instructor and the students.

Large parts of the book—the communication tricks, the instruction tricks (including LdL), the critical incidents and cultural information bricks—are also useful for intercultural academic teaching settings if the language of instruction is not English, but another language.

The book is available via ASEcoLi as an e-book with a simple cover page for 5 EUR.

At Lulu (accessible also via the ASEcoLi website) the book can be purchased in print form with a high-quality cover for 12 EUR.

German college teacher association (bpv) interested in BGE

Two days ago the chairman of the bpv, the Bayerischer Philologenverband (Association of College Teachers in Bavaria) and two of his colleagues came to see me in my office to discuss Basic Global English. We had a very fruitful debate and the bpv was highly interested in reflecting on BGE for an improved transitory period from elementary school to secondary schools. One of the plusses of BGE the bpv was the high communicative competence of the learners and that the BGE material respected the heterogeneity of learner groups. The next meeting will be in October/November.

Joachim Grzega

BGE material for sale!

We are happy to announce that ASEcoLi now offers teaching and learning materials, in part in cooperation with Lulu.com,

• for primary schools (Hello World!)
• for self-educated German-speaking learners (Tickets to Basic Global English – Englisch in 111 Tagen)

See the following list or the ASEcoLi Website (Section “Publications/Material”).

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Print 15.00 EUR – eBook 4.50 EUR (Preview at Lulu.com; hand-outs in other languages for free at http://www.basicglobalenglish.com)

Joachim Grzega (with the assistance of Marion Schöner and Katja Weber) Hello World! Teacher Handbook Basic Global English (BGE)for First-Year Learners of Age Group 7-10 ASEcoLi Publications by the Academy for SocioEconomic Linguistics 1.1

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Print 15.99 – eBook 5.50 EUR (Preview at Lulu.com)

Joachim Grzega (with the assistance of Marion Schöner and Katja Weber) Hello World! Learner Materials Basic Global English (BGE) for First-Year Learners of Age Group 7-10 ASEcoLi Publications by the Academy for SocioEconomic Linguistics 1.2

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* download all files  (783 MB!) (7.50 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi * download textbooks + flashcards (84MB!) (5 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi * all files on DVD (10 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi * textbook + flashcards on CD (5 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi * WAV-files part 1 as audio-CD (4.50 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi * WAV-files part 2 as audio-CD(4.50 EUR) > Contact ASEcoLi

Joachim Grzega Tickets to Basic Global English – Englisch in 111 Tagen ASEcoLi Publications by the Academy for SocioEconomic Linguistics 3 Consists of: 1. Textbook, 2. computerized German-English flashcards for Phase-6, 3. audio files (WAV-format + MP3-format) Here is a look into the preface and the instructions (in German)

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BGE slowly goes global

There is a good chance that Basic Global English is not only an “ideally global”, but also “really global”. People from Egypt, Brazil, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe e-mailed that they are interested in integrating BGE at primary schools in their country. The important point will be to convince curricular authorities; this seems at least the case for Egypt.

Joachim Grzega

BGE lesson #7 in Lindau

I received good feedback for the latest lesson at the Akademie Schönbühl. Participants are happy that they not get the expert-group materials one week in advance (together with a German translation). Also the introduction of the new vocabulary in a suggestopedic way (which was done by one of the future BGE instructors) was welcomed as a nice change. Tomorrow we will have our final lesson and a form of test to see how well I have done as a teacher.