I believe [the annual multiplayer competition] was a great opportunity to get in touch with other players around the world, my students were so excited about it. I am looking forward to having other such activities where students both learn and entertain themselves. |
Learning Village
Develop Language and Literacy Through Images
Immersive, image-based language, literacy and assessment programmes for primary, Secondary, post 16 and adult EAL/ESOL, multilingual and low-literacy learners of any language background and any literacy level.
Teaching, Assessment and Professional Learning
Identify starting points, select appropriate pathways, support learning and monitor progress-with specialist professional support throughout.
Teaching
& Learning
- Village | Ages 6-11
Primary language and literacy development
- Islands | Ages 11-16
Secondary language and literacy development
- Community Village | Post-16 and adults
Language and literacy for adult ESOL learners, supporting everyday communication, employment, community participation and family engagement
Assessment & Progress Monitoring
- AssessEP | Ages 7+ through to adult
English proficiency assessment across listening, speaking, reading and writing
- AI Writing Feedback
Writing proficiency, strength, feedback and next-step guidance
- AI Home Language Feedback
Writing proficiency, strengths, feedback and next-step guidance in learners’ home languages
Professional Development & Support
Loziana Prifti
EAL Lead, World Academy of Tirana
Liza Reis
EAL teacher, British School Rio
I have avidly been using the Learning Village on a daily basis with my small groups of EAL students here at the British School in Rio de Janeiro. I must say how wonderful it is to see the children's progress using the best practice of the Learning Village, where the speaking and listening, reading and writing opportunities linked to their curriculum content, truly allow them to gain further confidence in the English language acquisition. |
Ruth Radwan
Head of Multilingualism, International Schools Partnership (ISP)
As the Group Head of Multilingualism at ISP, I have had the great pleasure of working collaboratively with Across Cultures for the last seven months and have been incredibly impressed with the team’s expertise, agility and dedication to our organisation’s training of school-based Multilingualism Leads. They have provided enormous support in determining and structuring Professional Learning for ISP, often going above and beyond the scope of their work to offer advice and assistance. The team has consistently engaged with all our stakeholders in a professional, timely, warm and pragmatic way, quickly establishing rapport, getting to grips with different contexts and actively investing time in listening to our educators. Caroline, Iva and Mary are outstanding facilitators and balance academic knowledge of the field with practical examples and case studies effortlessly, to ensure targeted and relevant content. In our internally conducted, robust impact surveys, the average score from the 130+ educators in almost 60 countries who have engaged with the EAL & Multilingual Framework Process has been 8.5 out of 10, which is a huge achievement and testimony to the wonderful work that Across Cultures continues to do. In addition, many of our schools have benefited significantly from the plethora of resources, webinars and follow-up action planning meetings that have been offered and organised by the team. At ISP, one of our key tenets is that we learn and ‘get better together’ and Across Cultures has certainly helped us to achieve this goal in our multilingualism provision. We would wholeheartedly recommend Across Cultures’ training services to other international school groups and wish them ongoing success. Many, many, many thanks, Across Cultures: you are an inspiring group of specialists and educators! |
Why Schools Choose Learning Village
Supports learners from any language background or literacy level
Accelerates language and literacy development
Improves curriculum access and participation
Builds independent learners
Demonstrates progress and impact
Supports inclusion, participation and achievement
Combines teaching, assessment and professional development
Saves teacher time
Flexible Teaching and Learning
Learning Village supports multiple approaches to teaching and intervention.
Independent learning, targeted intervention and classroom differentiation work together to accelerate language, literacy and curriculum access.
Independent Learning
Develop confidence, independence and learner ownership.
Small-Group or One-to-One Intervention
Provide targeted language and literacy support where it is needed most.
Adaptive learning resources for the classroom
Support participation, inclusion and curriculum access across the wider classroom.
Building High-Impact Provision
Learning Village helps schools build sustainable expertise in language, literacy and multilingual provision.
Helping schools create lasting impact for learners, teachers and communities.
- Consultancy
- Training
- Implementation Support
- Whole-School Development

Who We Help
Primary and Secondary Schools
Supporting multilingual, EAL and low-literacy learners across primary and secondary education.
Local Authorities and Community Organisations
Improving inclusion, participation and access for families and communities.
Colleges and Adult Education Providers
Developing ESOL, language, literacy and employability skills for adult learners through the Community Village.
Employers and Workplace Learning Providers
Supporting workplace communication, literacy, ESOL and progression through the Community Village
New Zealand
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