Learning English with Misterduncan (Going on Holiday)
In this fully subtitled lesson, Misterduncan escapes to an idyllic island located in the south west of Turkey. He is an English teacher born in the UK, who has produced numerous instructive videos for English learners and teachers.
The possibility that anxiety interferes with language learning has long interested scholars, language teachers, and language learners themselves. It is intuitive that anxiety would inhibit the learning and/or production of a second language (L2). Typically referred to as language anxiety or foreign language anxiety (FLA), this anxiety is categorized as a situation-specific anxiety, similar in type to other familiar manifestations of anxiety such as stage fright or test anxiety.
Learning World (FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF BILINGUALISM)
Learning World is a brief TV magazine broadcasted by Euronews.
In this episode of Learning World we look at the importance of learning languages. It can boost your chances of a new job or help you communicate in a more and more connected world. The Learning World team also look at the cognitive benefits learning new languages has. In the second part of the episode we look at bilingualism and ask if it really boosts your child’s intelligence. And how does it work for families with different cultural backgrounds?
Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students' Self-Awareness and Learning SkillsMost of our students neither know how learning works nor what they have to do to ensure it, to the detriment both of their studies and their development as lifelong learners. The point of departure for this book is the literature on self-regulated learning that tells us that deep, lasting, independent learning requires learners to bring into play a range of cognitive skills, affective attitudes, and even physical activities – about which most students are wholly unaware; and that self-regulation, which has little to do with measured intelligence, can be developed by just about anyone and is a fundamental prerequisite of academic success.
