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COMENIUS Deadline 2010

The new dates for 2010 COMENIUS funding deadlines have been announced. For a free poster with all the dates, click here.

Spotlight on the Trainer
NILE consultants come from all over the world and some have even made Norwich their home. Leticia Goodchild, NILE consultant and a lecturer at the University of East Anglia talks to Dave Allan, NILE's Director , about moving continents and the joys of teaching. Find out more here

CELTA News
Maria Heron is NILE's CELTA Centre Manager. Maria and Carole Robinson, a NILE trainer discuss the latest TEFL debates, which encourage lively discussion around ELT topics. Click here.

ELT Resources
As part of NILE's ongoing committment to bringing you the best in English language training resources, Rod Bolitho, Academic Director for NILE has compiled a list of some of our NILE trainers' recent articles. For the full list click here .

Christmas Card Competition

Each year NILE hosts a Christmas card competition with the winners seeing their card printed and sent around the world with festive cheer!

The Christmas card again features the two winning entries from a competition held at Colby County Primary School in North Norfolk where NILE's Assistant Director, Sarah Mount, is Literacy Governor. Colby was also one of the schools visited by groups of Primary teachers on NILE courses in the summer and the children are very excited about hosting a group of Korean teachers in early 2010.

Daisy-Mae and Samuel were the winners this year and a prize-giving ceremony was arranged at the school. The whole school took part in the competition and many other prizes were awarded. It was a very special day for children and staff alike.

We would like to thank all the children of Colby School for their beautiful designs, and we hope you will all enjoy the winning card.

MATSDA News

NILE has been very closely involved with MATSDA, the international language teachers' materials development association, since we first opened our doors in the mid-1990s. Dave Allan, NILE's founding director, is the Chair of MATSDA, Rod Bolitho, NILE's Academic director is the ‘Folio' editor (‘Folio' is the MATSDA Journal) and Brian Tomlinson and Hitomi Masuhara, President and Secretary of MATSDA, are regular trainers for NILE on our MA Modules and short courses in materials evaluation, design and development. MATSDA runs conferences and workshops annually, both in the UK and Ireland and worldwide. In recent years we have been in Dublin, Norwich and Leeds, as well as in Bavaria and Buenos Aires, Singapore and South Africa. In late January 2010 MATSDA is running its UK conference at the University of York, with a really impressive line-up of speakers. Full details of the event are below.

We hope to see you there. Conference details are here

So far, yet so near - NILE distance training in 2010

Alan Pulverness, Assistant Academic Director at NILE, discusses online learning.

One of the distinctive features of NILE's MA in Professional Development for Language Education (MAPDLE) programme is its blend of face-to-face tuition.click here

 

MA in Professional Development for Language Education

   Rod Bolitho discusses the postgraduate programme available at NILE. Click here

Christmas and Social Programme News 

Kat Downes, Marketing Co-ordinator explores a very English Christmas and Marek Ignatowicz reflects on this year's social programme and looks forward to a very busy New Year!

  Christmas Traditions      Reflection on the social programme

Past News

NILE announces new courses in CLIL for Setember 2009.

Norwich Institute for Language Education announced today a new course starting in September. CLIL an ever popular subject, has an additional two new courses CLILP4 and CLILS4. Both of these courses will run from 1st September 2009 - 11th September 2009. Enrolment forms can be found here.

 

NILE Conference Schedule

 

NILE to deliver all modules of the MA in Professional Development for Language Education (MAPDLE) leading to the MA awarded by Leeds Metropolitan University

In January 2007 NILE was accredited for a further 5 years to run postgraduate programmes up to MA level and the courses run by NILE leading to the MAPDLE were validated for the same further period. It has now been agreed that NILE will take over the delivery of the whole MAPDLE programme, so from January 2007 all the modules will be run at NILE in Norwich.

The MAPDLE is a modular MA designed specifically for experienced English teachers and trainers to enable them to complete a period of professional development of advanced standing while continuing to follow their chosen career paths. It is designed for flexibly delivery, combining short, intensive periods of face-to-face teaching with longer periods of closely supervised e.learning. Teachers on the MAPDLE can do the full MA in as little as a year or over a period as long as 5 years. They can also take the interim awards of Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma.

NILE has been running this MA and its predecessor for over 12 years now. It has been followed by over 400 teachers and trainers from all round the world, many of whom have gone on to do further qualifications and take on senior positions. Some of them have successfully completed PhDs and 6 of our past MA students have become NILE trainers.

ERF Award for NILE Consultant Antoinette Moses

NILE is proud to report that NILE consultant, Antoinette Moses, has been announced the winner of the Extensive Reading Foundation’s 4th Annual LanguageLearner Literature Award in the category of Adolescent and Adults (Beginners). The prize is for her 2006 book Let Me Out, illustrated by Chris Pavely and published by Cambridge University Press, as part of its Cambridge English Readers Series. The international jury commented: “it’s so funny and the pictures are wonderful” (Vietnam), whilst voters from Hong Kong found Let Me Out “really fantastic and interesting”. The panel praised Moses’ ability to create a connection between reader and character; Let Me Out was a popular choice in a competitive category.

The Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) is an unaffiliated, not-for profit organization that supports and promotes extensive reading in language education. Voters chose the winning book in four categories, taking into account Internet votes and comments from teachers and students from around the world. This is Antoinette’s second Language Learner Literature Award, after winning in 2004 for Jojo’s Story.

To buy Let Me Out, please click here. To buy Jojo’s Story, please click here.

INTO-UEA: University Language Preparation Courses for International Students

NILE is now involved with the management of a major new project, INTO-UEA. This new initiative provides university preparation language courses for students, leading to undergraduate or postgraduate study at the University of East Anglia or elsewhere. International students have been studying at the UEA for over 40 years and the university was recently voted as one of the top five universities in the country by its students.

INTO-UEA students will enjoy the same campus life and exceptional facilities as other undergraduate and postgraduate students, with an excellent library, first-class sports centre, great shopping and fantastic arts and social facilities. Norwich 's city centre is only fifteen minutes away by bus.

Courses are operated jointly by the University of East Anglia and INTO University Partnerships. For more information or to book a place, please click here

New Academic Director for NILE : Rod Bolitho

NILE's new projects and course development have led to the expansion of our management team. We have appointed a new Academic Director in the shape of Rod Bolitho. Rod joined the NILE team in January, continuing a distinguished career in ELT.

To find out more about Rod please click here

Update: NILE 's First CELTA Course

We have now run five CELTA courses with a 100% pass rate. Since our first CELTA course back in November 2006, all our candidates have been successful with a good proportion of 'A' and 'B' grades.

You can read our CELTA Centre Manager Maria's report here

For further information on NILE 's CELTA Centre, or on the CELTA qualification, please contact our CELTA Centre Manager, Maria Heron on maria@nile-elt.com

Norwich : A Very Fine City

We at NILE think Norwich is England 's best kept secret, so we're pleased to see that others agree! The UK 's local information network, Locallife has voted Norwich the most eco-friendly city in the UK . You can read more about Green Norwich in Martin Hickman's article from The Independent

 

Of course, this isn't the only recent praise for Norwich in the national press. British actor Simon Callow had this to say on a recent visit here. If you would like more information about Norwich as setting for your training and development please click here or contact our Marketing Manager, Sarah Mount on

sarah@nile-elt.com

NILE 's 10th Anniversary   

In Autumn 2005, NILE staff and students celebrated our 10th anniversary with a special conference. Tatyana and Olessya, two teachers from Kazakhstan, won a scholarship for first time presenters and write here about their experiences from their first year. We wish them every continuing success!

Photos from the conference can be found on our Flickr site here

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