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Silvia Bastow
Apr 6, 20248 min read
Navigating the Soundscape: Foreign Language Learning and Listening Anxiety
This blog post was written by Klaudia Schwenk. About the author of the post: Klaudia Schwenk is a graduate of the University of...
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Silvia Bastow
Jun 12, 20224 min read
On the journey to fluency and spontaneity
Nobody could claim to have come up with an ideal method of teaching MFL. Many modern languages classrooms may believe in communicative...
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Silvia Bastow
May 15, 20223 min read
Structured production and expansion phase (G. Conti E.P.I Methodology)
For the past two years, my colleagues and I have been applying the E.P.I. Methodology designed by Dr. Gianfranco Conti which provides a...
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Silvia Bastow
Feb 13, 20224 min read
Using Sentence Builders
There is an increasing number of language teachers; me being one of them; using Sentence Builders (previously referred to as substitution...
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Silvia Bastow
Oct 24, 20205 min read
Receptive Processing Phase LAM/RAM (Conti Methodology of E.P.I.)
On this post I would like to concentrate on the Receptive processing phase of Dr Conti’s E.P.I methodology. After the introduction of the...
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Silvia Bastow
Oct 3, 20204 min read
Modelling and awareness raising phase using a Sentence builder (Conti methodology of E.P.I)
In September, my department started to implement a brand new methodology of lessons delivery based on Dr Gianfranco Conti’s approach of...
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