by Carl Taylor | Dec 19, 2014 | Blog, News
We are very pleased to announce that we will be presenting our HandsOnTurkish project at the “Uluslararası Türkçenin Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğretimi Sempozyumu” (Symposium for the Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language) which is being held at the Yunus Emre Enstitüsü...
by Neal | Dec 11, 2014 | Blog, News
HandsOnTurkish is an interactive, ‘hands-on’ eLearning course of Turkish primarily for vocational and business learners. The project was awarded European funding based on the growing importance of Turkey on the world stage, the growing Turkish economy and...
by Tom Young | Dec 2, 2014 | Blog
Trainee teachers are often initially guided by a set of principles when trying to design compelling and useful learning materials. There is no reason why these principles can’t also be employed by students wishing to improve upon their independent study techniques....
by Tom Young | Nov 25, 2014 | Blog, language learning
One of the most frequently ignored or overlooked aspects of learning another language is the pronunciation. The temptation is often to focus on ‘sounding like a native’, rather than objectively looking at possible problems of comprehension or misunderstanding that...
by Neal | Nov 13, 2014 | Blog, language learning
The new HandsOnTurkish course has been under construction for almost a year, although the development only started in earnest at the start of the summer after the planning stage. After developing the early prototypes which were tested on a small scale, we are now...
by Neal | Nov 11, 2014 | Blog
Whilst fixing a small bug in the LearnOasis Danish language notes, we added the function to pause and restart the notes. The language notes can be found in module 5 of every unit and discuss the key aspects of the language used within the dialogues. The notes are...