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  • App-lied learning: how effective are language learning apps?

    App-lied learning: how effective are language learning apps?

    Commissioning Editor Mairi reflects on the pros and cons of language learning apps.

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  • Spotlight on…  English Language Teaching

    Spotlight on… English Language Teaching

    Oriel Square Editor Kristina Wearing talks about her career in the ELT sector, and shares her top tips for getting into ELT publishing.

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  • 5 challenges and solutions for ELT publishers

    5 challenges and solutions for ELT publishers

    With a wide variety of local contexts, increasing exam pressures, and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, producing quality ELT resources poses plenty of challenges. Frances Amrani looks at how these challenges can be met by ELT publishers.

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  • Project insights: Producing ELT resources for local context

    Project insights: Producing ELT resources for local context

    We worked with a major educational publisher to adapt and develop ELT resources for the Polish schools market, including meeting the exam requirements of the Polish Ministry of National Education.

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  • The big picture: ELT in the MENA region

    The big picture: ELT in the MENA region

    With mixed-ability classes and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, teaching ELT in the primary classroom poses plenty of challenges. Not to mention the wide variety of contexts across the MENA region.

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  • Q&A: Navigating cultural contexts in educational publishing

    Q&A: Navigating cultural contexts in educational publishing

    Charlotte al-Qadi explains why and how the publishing industry can embrace cultural contexts.

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  • Project insights: Cultural adaptation

    Project insights: Cultural adaptation

    Our client was publishing maths and science instructional materials for schools in the Middle East region on behalf of the Ministry of Education.

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  • Spotlight on… learning English in the Middle East

    Spotlight on… learning English in the Middle East

    Publishing Assistant Lydia spent half her life studying in a Middle Eastern country before moving back to the UK and continuing her education at university. She discusses her experience of learning English while growing up in Syria.

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  • The power of reading: Three ways that reading broadens horizons

    The power of reading: Three ways that reading broadens horizons

    Three ways that reading for pleasure positively impacts a child’s development.

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  • Turn on the subtitles and let the magic happen!

    Turn on the subtitles and let the magic happen!

    Did you know that turning on the subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of them becoming good at reading? We talked to the edtech innovator behind the Turn On The Subtitles campaign to find out about this brilliantly simple literacy project.

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  • Embracing cultural contexts in the Middle East and North Africa

    Embracing cultural contexts in the Middle East and North Africa

    Charlotte al-Qadi has spent over 15 years working in educational publishing for the MENA market. Whilst language from publishers in recent years has become less negative when briefing educational content for the region, there still remains an air of reluctance to think about cultural sensitivities.

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  • Engaging schools and communities to support children’s learning

    Engaging schools and communities to support children’s learning

    Ensuring that education objectives continue to be achieved both during and after the pandemic involves multiple stakeholders and diverse partnerships. With new educational needs arising, and the nature of roles changing for all involved, we turn again to the central question of accountability: how can we all work to ensure that children achieve their full…

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