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Nick recently attended the Symposium held at the University of Waikato and ran a workshop on addressing the needs of employees who speak English as an additional language in a workplace literacy setting. We shared a number of lesson plans and classroom tasks designed to assist employees with the following aspects of report writing: -         Accuracy and sentence structure -         Accuracy with collocation (time an

Garold Murray, Associate Professor in the Foreign Language Education Center at Okayama University and some of his colleagues came to visit us at our base in Princes Street the other day. As a researcher, he has published a number of extensive longitudinal studies of learners recording their stories of strategy use, motivation and progress over time. Fabulously interesting stuff. Here’s one particular gem from our con

We are once again proud to be sponsoring the Industry Training Federation Workplace Literacy Forum in Wellington on the June 6th. The Industry Training Federation are leading the way in bringing the sector together and raising levels of literacy amongst the New Zealand workforce. As a PTE, it’s important for us to be working alongside ITOs, supplementing and supporting the work they are doing. For example, with our w