Articles

Building resilience

As we begin to look beyond the immediate world crisis, colleagues from the British Council’s Language for Resilience team tell us how their approach to building resilience for migrants can be applied to our work.

Developing cross-cultural awareness in the monolingual classroom

Language learning for life as responsible citizens of the international community must include cultural awareness.

Addressing human trafficking and slavery in the classroom

According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, over 40 million people are enslaved today, and of those, ten million are 17 years old or younger.

Developing teachers of refugees

Do you have refugees in your class? Do you work as a teacher trainer for refugee contexts? Or are you just interested in this major issue in the troubled world we live in?

Language learning and social cohesion in a multicultural classroom with vulnerable learners

This piece seeks to answer questions related to the correlation between language learning and social cohesion in the context of a multicultural/multilingual classroom with more focus on refugee and recent migrant learners.

How to address the effects of trauma in the English language classroom

This article looks at working with students who have suffered trauma and suggests ways in which teachers can address this in the English language classroom.

How language affects refugees’ abilities to access education, training and employment

The importance of language in schools, training centres and workplaces cannot be underestimated in refugee communities, especially given that so often they find themselves economically, socially and politically marginalised.

Understanding and engaging with neurodiversity

Develop your understanding of using inclusive practices in the classroom by examining the concept of diversity and inclusion.

What is inclusion and how do we implement it?

We all seem to talking about inclusion and the importance of it.