The Benefits Of A Bilingual Brain
Youth Language
Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged.
The Word Indigenous - Explained
Youth Language
Indigenous people are the first people to live in a place.
Auxiliary Verbs (Part 2)
Adults Language
Mark explains in detail when we need to use "do" as an auxiliary verb. This video is for students at an upper-intermediate level.
The Saudi Culture
Adults Language
Culture Day At Canadian College of English Language
Auxiliary Verbs (Part 1)
Adults Language
Mark explains in detail when English requires "be" as an auxiliary verb. This video is for students at an upper-intermediate level.
What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
Adults Language
Dig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages.
Writing Your Bilingual Journey
Teachers Language
Fostering a bilingual identity can be motivating and empowering for students. Hese is a short video to help the think through the process.
How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
Adults Language
The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second.
The Power of Stories to Build a Kinder World
Teachers Language
If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)
Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?
Adults Language
Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
How to learn any language in six months
Adults Language
Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.
Repetition in ELT
Teachers Language
Author Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.
The benefits of Extensive Reading
Teachers Language
Professor Richard Day, Chair and Co-founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation, explains the benefits to language learners of extensive reading.
Louis Rogers - Academic Vocabulary
Teachers Language
The four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking have dominated the EAP classroom for many years; however in the last decade academic word lists has given much greater prominence to vocabulary teaching. This talk will give an overview of some of the main studies into creating Academic Word Lists and look at the impact of vocabulary knowledge of skills such as reading.
Learn English Apps
Teachers Language
Check out these excellent apps for your mobile device of choice!
Steven Pinker on Language Pragmatics
Teachers Language
Steven Pinker talks about Language Pragmatics and how language is learned through context.
ABC of SLA
Teachers Language
Scott Thornbury's history of second language acquisition (SLA) in a nutshell. A lot of great ideas.