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2015 has been another very busy year for our workplace team. We have run projects with ADHB at Auckland Hospital and The Selwyn Foundation across their North Island sites as well as a number of smaller projects in a range of businesses. Recently, we have been i

Choosing an online dictionary Online dictionaries are very useful tools when writing and reading and there are some really good ones out there. Go for a learner dictionary – this will be more useful and give you more detailed information about usage. Here are some tips on how to choos

Write and Improve Learner Orientated Assessment is the sort of assessment that happens in class and by teachers all the time and so rather than resulting in a formal assessment report, it feeds directly into the learning that is going on right at the moment. We really like “Write

OK, they  sound a bit pretentious but Grice’s Maxims are incredibly useful and they are four principles of communication that we keep coming back to them when we are working with learners in the workplace. Here they are: The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibl

There is quite a lot of cross-pollination between the workplace literacy world and the world of regular language teaching. A small example of the way our work in the literacy world has enhanced what we do in the regular language school is with spelling. Spelling is important in the workpla

It’s always good when you learn something new from your learners. A recent task from one of the courses we are running was for learners to create a screencast teaching other people how to do something on a computer.  The literacy focus was  on speaking skills – consideration of the n

At the end of every input session we teach, we include a 5 minute reflection session in which we encourage learners think about what they have been doing in the session, say what they’ve learnt and think about how they are going to apply that learning at work. Learners get to share their reflectio

 Should intellectual property be a real concern for a business embarking in workplace literacy training? Yes, absolutely it should.  Often as a provider working in partnership with a business, we have access to information about business processes which is extremely sens

‘Revisit’ is a real time visualisation of the latest 200 twitter messages for your search term. It is designed by Moritz Stefaner. Click on the link to follow what people around the world are tweeting about “workplace literacy”. Results are displayed as a time line and update as more peop

Cambridge University Press have released this dictionary toolbar which you can add to your web browser. The search box appears at the top of your browser and links to http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/ The dictionary has meaning, common expressions with the word, examples of the how a wo