This article highlights the concept of “employability” and the importance of acquisition of employability skills. Employability skills are referred to as “the skills acquired to secure and retain a job” (Audu & Yusri & Muhammad 2013, p. 9). Such skills are highly valued by employers who seek to hire good workers having both basic academic...
This article highlights the concept of “employability” and the importance of acquisition of employability skills. Employability skills are referred to as “the skills acquired to secure and retain a job” (Audu & Yusri & Muhammad 2013, p. 9). Such skills are highly valued by employers who seek to hire good workers having both basic academic...
The globalization of local markets in recent years has created countless opportunities in the professional arena, allowing for unprecedented mobility in the workforce. However, these changes are also creating new challenges and the ability to communicate in an international professional environment is becoming of paramount importance. In response...
What would you expect from a nurse from Greece who works in a hospital in the UK? To be able to talk about the environment in English or to give an English speaking patient clear and detailed instructions on how to take medication? You’d expect from a Greek hairdresser who runs a beauty salon in Nottingham to be able to explain the latest techniques they...
Tiffany Moyer-Washington is an eighth-grade English language arts teacher at Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy in Hartford and a member of Educators 4 Excellence and the Hartford Federation of Teachers. Her article on courant.com caught our attention as we found her opinion and views worth sharing. Enjoy.
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In previous articles we’ve briefly presented the history of EAP, examined similarities and differences between Academic and General EFL courses, analysed important features of Academic English and presented EAP teaching contexts in Greece. This article will support how the inclusion of some EAP features in curriculum design, lesson planning and...
Interest in the function of the brain was already known in ancient Greece. Alcmaeon of Croton was an early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist. (Beare, J. I., 1906,). He is possibly to have expressed his ideas sometime between 500 and 450 BCE. The surviving fragments and testimonial focus primarily on issues of physiology, psychology and...
Burnout is defined as a negative psychological experience related to work stress. It is an umbrella term for different negative consequences of work such as emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and lack of personal accomplishment. (Maslach & Jackson, 1986). It is evident in people whose jobs require repeated exposure to emotionally charged...
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Η Δυσαριθμησία ως ξεχωριστή έννοια εμφανίστηκε από τον Αμερικανό R. Cohn, σε άρθρο του στο περιοδικό Archives of Neurology. Σε αυτό το άρθρο η Δυσαριθμησία περιγραφόταν ως δυσλειτουργία του κεντρικού νευρικού συστήματος που συναντάμε σε άτομα που έχουν δυσκολία στις μαθηματικές δεξιότητες. Ο Τσέχος ερευνητής...
The common saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” gives prominence to the idea that an image is more powerful when engraved on our mind than a multitude of words. Visual representations of ideas can function as an instructional strategy in the EFL classroom and students with dyslexia who face problems with short term memory...
You have come to class having your lesson plan ready, well prepared for a lesson with a specific grammar and vocabulary target and minutes later Kostakis, who has been diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), starts fidgeting in his chair and Marilia, who cannot control herself from commenting, shouts out that cannot...
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So you have this student, or maybe several, who during instructional time try to make their classmates laugh. Sometimes it’s just a look or whispered comment, but it can be a...
Ο πρώτος πρακτικός οδηγός για τις Ειδικές Μαθησιακές Δυσκολίες και τη Δυσλεξία
13 January 2020
Οι εκδόσεις Σπυρόπουλου σε συνεργασία με τον ειδικό παιδαγωγό Ιωάννη Α. Κοσμόπουλο κυκλοφορούν τον πρώτο, σε πανελλαδικό επίπεδο, πρακτικό οδηγό για τις Ειδικές Μαθησιακές Δυσκολίες και τη Δυσλεξία. ...
Goodbye Erasmus: Brits express anger after UK votes against much-loved EU student scheme
13 January 2020
Britons who have studied around Europe have expressed anger and incredulity after the UK parliament voted not to seek to negotiate to continue the Erasmus student exchange programme after...
BULATS discontinued from end 2019
10 January 2020
BULATS retired at the end of 2019. It will be replaced with Linguaskill Business. Linguaskill is a quick and convenient online test to help organisations check the English levels of...
Recognition of the ABLE B2 certificate by ASEP
09 January 2020
The Hellenic American Union is pleased to announce that the ABLE B2 certificate has been recognized by the Greek state (Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection) as a B2 level...
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