4. April 2018 by Juan Manuel Melgar Jiménez
By Carlos Cáceres and Juanma Melgar: THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN is an online game for primary students who are learning a language, as well as a tool to help teachers gathering data about their students’ achievements in language learning, with content based on learning standards from across Europe. Children using THE LANGUAGE MAGICIAN will be able… »
7. March 2018 by Concha Julián
By Concha Julián-de-Vega, Rubén Barderas Rey y Jesús Hernández González The LANGUAGE MAGICIAN has proven to be a highly motivating game for students, as shown by data analysed by the University of Reading (Courtney and Graham, 2017), because of the engaging story and because learners have the feeling of making progress in a game-based context… »
14. December 2017 by Esther Janeiro
Head teachers and language teachers from all the primary schools of La Rioja enjoyed a Languages conference “La Rioja Enchanted by the Language Magician” on 16th. November 2017 at IES La Laboral, Lardero, with more than 140 people attending. The event was hosted by Maria Teresa Gil Benito, Head of the Innovation and Teacher Training… »
17. November 2017 by Anne Liedloff
The LANGUAGE MAGICIAN project is doing well in its successful long-distance run to deliver the most innovative assessment tool for language teaching at primary schools world-wide. And we have set a date for our conference marking the end of the project and delivering the results of our work over the last three years. The conference’s… »
19. October 2017 by Suzanne Graham
By Suzanne Graham, University of Reading The LANGUAGE MAGICIAN project takes forward many of the principles that emerged from a study recently conducted at the University of Reading, Institute of Education. In our study ‘Primary Modern Languages: the impact of teaching approaches’, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, we explored not only whether an ‘oracy-based approach’… »