Research in Education

Find links here to articles, journals, PDFs and other sites that provide you quick and easy access to current and past research in a range of areas relating to languages education.

Powerpoint Presentation from Critical Agendas Seminar 'Engaging Boys in Learning Languages' March 1 and 2, 2010 (both presentations combined into one)

From Critical Agendas Seminar 'Engaging Boys in Learning Languages' March 2, 2010: Reading material on Boys' Education (general) - as seen on coloured posters on walls and windows on Day 2

Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles – a simple, easy-to-understand explanation of these two theories and what they mean for us when catering to learners in our classrooms.

The Active Learning Cone – how much of what we read and hear do we actually remember several weeks later? The Active Learning Cone and the explanation accompanying it show that it takes active involvement on the part of the student in order to learn and retain information.

Extracts from the book : Getting the Buggers Into Languages which looks at how to get boys learning languages.