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Storyline Brazil

May

2009

Led by the necessity of improving the quality of teaching and student’s motivation to learn English as a foreign language, this group of teachers in South Brazil, mentored by Professor Sulany dos Santos, developed two Storyline topics. The Farm was the theme for the county schools in Ijuí, Brazil, for 10-11 year-old students. The next ...

Storyline in Lithuania

Feb

2009

Ona Leonaviciene, seen in these photographs with her classes, is an English teacher in a secondary school in Marijampole, Lithuania. For many years now she has been using Storyline to teach English as a second language. She presented her experiences at the 3rd International Storyline Conference in Glasgow in 2006 and has been invited to ...

Courses in Germany

Sep

2008

From 9th to 13th September 2008 four courses were presented to German primary teachers and probationers who teach English as a second language. From February 2009 all class one pupils in the primary schools in Nordrhein-Westfalen will be introduced to English. Gisela Ehlers, IQSH Kiel, director of a highly successful Comenius project using Storyline for ...

Storyline in South Korea

Jul

2008

Sulany dos Santos is a Brazilian Lecturer who worked for many years as a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) in a university in South Brazil. During this time she had introduced Storyline into her teaching. Because of her husband’s work she moved with him to live in South Korea and was invited ...

Storyline in Second Language Teaching

Oct

2007

Martinshaus Rendsburg, Tina Stute A four day course for a group of German study leaders and primary teachers was held in Martinshaus Conference Centre from 17th to 20th October 2007. The event was organised by Gisela Ehlers and colleagues from IQSH Kiel. Steve Bell led a workshop course for the first two days and then ...

Maltese Interest

Jun

2006

Dr Antoinette Camilleri Grima, a senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Maltese Language Teaching at the University of Malta, has recently met with me while attending a Reading Conference in Scotland. She had attended a lecture on Storyline at the conference ‘A New Vision for Primary Education in Malta’ held in her university in the ...

English for Life: Using Storyline to teach English in school years 1-6

May

2006

Sharon Ahlquist, The University of Kristianstad, Sweden During the spring of 2006 25 Swedish primary school teachers took part in Storyline The Street. The course ran for ten weeks, meeting one evening a week, and its aim was to show how the Storyline method can be used to fulfil the objectives of the syllabus for English ...

Developing Language Skills in Storyline Topics

Nov

2005

This year for the first time an option has been included in the B.Ed (Honours) Degree in Primary Education Course at Strathclyde University under the In-Depth Language Study Programme entitled Developing Language Skills in Storyline Topics. The participants will experience two practical workshops and be asked to give their views on the benefits of adopting ...

Creative Dialogues – second language teaching

Jun

2005

The fourth transnational meeting of a Comenius Project entitled Creative Dialogues was held in the Buchanan Arms Hotel, Drymen, Scotland, from 20th to 24th April 2005. This group is engaged in developing Storylines for use in the second language teaching of English and German. The partners of the project Gisela Ehlers (Coordinator), IQSH, Kiel, Germany; ...

Story and Storyline live in Hamburg, Germany

Jun

2003

Dr. Christoph Edelhoff, Chairman At the end of May, teachers and teacher trainers for English in comprehensive schools from all over Germany assembled at the Hamburg State Institute for Education for their annual three-day meeting, this time to explore the potential of story, narration and the creative use of literature in the foreign language classroom. ...