Tag: Language
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Literacy and Numeracy: It’s Not Rocket Science – 3 Things You’ll Be Thankful to Learn if You Work in Education
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in Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, Numeracy Indicators, Pacific Literacy Initiatives, Prison literacyLiteracy and Numeracy – It’s not rocket science. This is the plain-English introduction and guide that will help you understand what everyone else is talking about. You can learn to be more successful as an educator, teacher or trainer by understanding how to integrate literacy and numeracy into your work
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Which words should I learn in te reo Māori?
You’re probably already asking yourself what you’re going to do to learn some new reo this week. Here are a couple of good places to start: 100 Māori words every New Zealander should know. 365 Māori words. Learn one word every day for a year. 1000 Māori place names. These are great because once you…
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Forensic Linguistics – Or A Story About How I Used To Help Sneaky Lawyers Get Immigrants Off Drunk Driving Charges
This is not a dig at the cops. I have good mates who are police. It’s just a story… recorded here for posterity. Also, if I was doing all this again, I would take a different approach. ——— A long time ago, when I was much younger (and much more naive), I had a gig…
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Demands: But wait, I’m an ESOL teacher…!
Mapping the demands for teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) If you are not an ESOL teacher – someone who teaches refugees and migrants with little or no English – you can skip this section. But if you are an ESOL teacher, and you teach a course that is funded by the TEC…
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Colonisation: Problems, Impact and 4 Key Questions To Help You Teach Better
Brief discussion of the impact of colonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand