Day 2 of the third seminar for materials writers of the "English for Academics" course focused on the following issues: 

The second workshop is now over and here you can read what happened during Day 4 and what decisions were made for the future.

The agenda for the day:

More than half of the seminar has passed now and here are diary notes from Day 3. 

Events

Day 2 of the second seminar for materials writers of the "English for Academics" course concentrated on the following issues: 

The second seminar focuses on reviewing the first set of materials produced for the "English for Academics" course. This is the report of Day 1. 

This is the report from the final day of seminar 1. 
Outline of the day:

In my first post I mentioned only one language course had ever truly impressed me; well that course was the Michel Thomas Spanish series.

So every so often a new language learning method comes out. Usually they proclaim themselves “revolutionary” and present themselves the magic bullet of language learning.

So I’m going to teach oral English to Chinese natives. I’m not a teacher, and have never taught before, however I have always had a strong interest in how languages are taught and learnt.

In this blog we are going to describe the process of course design that the team selected by the British Council and lead by Rod Bolitho will go through in designing a new product - Engli