What is the Learning Village?
The Learning Village is an image-based English as an Additional Language (EAL) programme for pupils in English-medium schools. It follows a blended approach, with a comprehensive online programme supported by offline, teacher-directed learning. Beginning with everyday survival language and phonics, it leads onto specific curriculum content.
It includes:
- 10,000+ words and phrases, for speaking, listening, reading and writing
- Image-based learning, to assist learners who are unable to read in their mother tongue
- Excellent support for Special Educational Needs learners
- Techniques to help learners support themselves
- Support for blended learning and for self-study
The Learning Village is fun! It's a vibrant, interactive world where learners visit places, play games and make virtual friends - while learning English.
The Learning Village helps teachers
The Learning Village is designed to integrate with a learner's classwork curriculum. It ensures that EAL arrivals grasp the fundamentals of English and learn the necessary curriculum vocabulary and language structures. For teachers, this saves time and makes differentiation much simpler. In addition, detailed assessment is built into the system - you know exactly where your learners are on their learning journey and how to target their needs.
The programme includes three Learning Journeys:
- Survival Language: for learners who are new-to-English, covering vocabulary and language structures
- Phonics: teaching reading through sounds
- Curriculum content: introducing the vocabulary needed for the most requested areas of the school curriculum
Learner pathways are set by the programme and customised by teachers. Progress in each journey is carefully tracked by software and results automatically assessed.
The Learning Village team works in partnership with teachers. Our programme is shaped by their needs and by good practice in our member schools. All members can make content requests for new lessons, flashcards and activities.
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Our offline resources, customisable learning pathways, and comprehensive online programmes make The Village and The Islands a superb resource for all those teaching new-to-English learners.
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