University of Kristianstad, Sweden It is with great pleasure that we announce that Sharon has been awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of Leicester with a study called: The impact of the Storyline approach on the young language learner classroom: a case study in Sweden. The purpose of the study was to identify in what ...
On May 21st of this year Bruce Lander gave a short presentation about Storyline to fellow foreign language instructors at an educational conference in Matsumoto, Japan. The main objective of Bruce’s talk in Matsumoto was to give an insight into the Storyline Approach, which for the most part is unheard of in the region. The ...
Bruce Lander Bruce, a university lecturer of foreign languages in Matsuyama University, Ehime Japan, has recently been following the development of Storyline Scotland with the intention of starting an interest group in Japan. Bruce met Steve Bell in the summer of 2010 where he learned about the adaptation of the Storyline Approach. Steve kindly put Bruce in touch ...
Kumi Tømmerbakke Løkeberg School has established a tradition of carrying out a Storyline in English in year 5. Norwegian pupils start English in the first year of school. By the time they are in year 5 Løkeberg pupils are often familiar with Storyline from using the method in other subjects. The Storyline used in year ...
Jill L Wells & Kathy Robson A new, exciting Storyline project involving three secondary schools and five primary schools is taking place in North Yorkshire, England at the moment. Inspired by an ‘Introduction to Storyline’ presentation run by Jill Wells, Kathy Robson, Subject leader and Assistant Headteacher at Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering, researched the ...
Andressa Felipin who is a member of the team of Second Language teachers (pictured below) has indicated how useful they are finding the books produced by Gisela Ehlers and her group for the Comenius Project “Creative Dialogues”. “This sharing can only be of great assistance to us,” she says,” and it will help us develop ...
Knut Age Teigen Snöball Film, Norway How can students learn a foreign language through the Storyline approach? A new film from Snöball Film documents how this is done in an 8th grade class at Ringstabekk skole in Bærum. The students had been learning German for half a year when their teacher, Ulrikke Smith, introduced Storyline ...
Todd Stewart-Rinier One of the most valuable components of Storyline is collaboration. The social skills that develop through working and problem solving with others in a Storyline are exactly the kinds of collaborative skills that are necessary in larger arenas. Increasingly the problems we face are such that they require collaborative solutions: within communities, between ...
Task based teaching für die Arbeit mit heterogenen Lerngruppen, Martinshaus, Rendsburg This popular annual workshop course is organised by Gisela Ehlers of the Institute for Teacher training in Kiel. It attracts teachers of general subjects working in primary and secondary schools who also wish to teach English as a Second Language. The course started with ...