In our first running of the new 'Course for IELTS Trainers' we were joined by 9 teachers from Russia, for a one-week intensive IELTS training course...Read more...
Hugo Dart, IBEU – Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos
After one has been to a few conferences, it becomes easy to tell from the very first moments whether each trip will have been worth it or not. NILE@21 started with Dave Allan’s touching reflection on the past 21 years, followed by two plenary sessions which set the tone for the weekend.Read more...
If you're interested in the way language is used in public spaces, and particularly in advertising, you will enjoy this recent article in the Guardian.
In August 2016 NILE held a conference in Norwich to mark our 21st birthday, drawing presenters and delegates from around the world to celebrate Transforming Teaching.
Conference attendees were invited to share their views of the conference and presenters were asked to share articles based on their talks and workshops. In this series of digital articles, we present the best of these proceedings from the conference, bringing the conference back to life, and sharing the ideas and information more widely. Enormous thanks go to all contributors to this series, and errors in typography and formatting are entirely on the NILE side ;-)Enjoy the NILE@21 Transforming Teaching digital conference proceedings.
We were delighted to hst a group of 36 Chilean English and Subject teachers via a programme in partnership with the British Council. They forfeited the sunshine of South AmericaRead more...
In an age when almost every official sign tells us what's prohibited or compulsory, a sign announcing that something is 'authorised' causes a double-take!...Read more...
In January, we also had the pleasure of welcoming a group of ELT teachers from the Cultura Inglesa language institute in Brazil for a one-week methodology course. They took part in sessions onRead more...
We were delighted to host a group of 22 English teachers from across Georgia in January for a 5-day course focussing on developing communicative language teaching and learner centred lessons. The course aimed to combine input that challenged established teacher-centred practices,Read more...
In September we welcomed a group of 30 young people from Duca degli Abruzzi school in Treviso, Italy who had come with funding from the EU and the Veneto Region, in Italy. They stayed with us for a two-week course based around the topic of Digital Citizenship.
As well as consideringRead more...
In September we welcomed a group of 80 Swiss students from the Bildungszentrum kvBL in Liestal, Switzerland. As part of a long-running project with this institution, they came to us for a two-week course which specifically focussed on Business English in preparation forRead more...
