German Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part I (The Language Gym - Sentence Builder)

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Founder, owner and CEO of the leading language learning website The Language Gym, Gianfranco is an applied linguistics MA and PhD graduate with many years of classroom experience. He has taught Modern Languages for nearly 30 years at primary, secondary and university levels. He has researched the impact of metacognitive strategies training and error correction on L2 essay writing under the supervision of Oxford University Professor Ernesto Macaro both during his PhD and a large-scale project in English comprehensive schools documented in Professor Macaro's 2001 book. In his current role as Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading, he has lexicogrammar acquisition, listening instruction, metacognition, error correction and learner autonomy as his main research interests. Formerly head of languages at various schools in England and abroad where he has developed and implemented his instructional approach (Extensive Processing Instruction), he is currently a renowned and popular conference speaker and CPD provider very active in the UK, South-East Asia, Middle East and Australia. He delivers keynotes in major international events all year around, conducts over a hundred workshops for language teachers a year and visits as many schools, either to provide professional development or to help them improve their curriculum design and delivery. His mission is to make current Cognitive Science and Applied Linguistics research available to the busy classroom practitioner and to translate it in implementable and impactful instructional strategies which make languages accessible for all. He is well-known internationally for his teaching resources that have won him the TES Best contributor award and have been downloaded over 6,000,000 times by hundreds of thousand of teachers worldwide. Gianfranco is also a prolific book writer. In the last five years he has co-authored with Steve Smith the best-selling handbooks for MFL professionals, ‘The Language Teacher Toolkit’, ‘Breaking the sound barrier: teaching learners how to listen’ and 'Memory: what every language teacher should know. His most popular book, "Breaking the sound barrier", lays out the principles of the language teaching method he has created, E.P.I. (aka: Extensive Processing Instruction), a usage-based approach which has been adopted by thousands of language educators worldwide. He has also published the best-selling Sentence builders series of workbooks aimed at classroom and independent learning for beginner to intermediate learners of Spanish, French, German and Italian, based on 'EPI', co-authored with his former colleague Dylan Viñales, which has been currently adapted to Irish, Welsh, Dutch and other languages. He is also currently working on a series of revision books aimed at GCSE Modern Language learners, two of which have already been published, whilst German and Italian are still in the works. Finally, he runs an influential blog on MFL pedagogy, The Language Gym (gianfrancoconti.com), which has won him several international awards. His Twitter handle is @gianfrancocont9 Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author Dylan Viñales has taught for 15 years, in schools in Bath, Beijing and Kuala Lumpur in state, independent and international settings. He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is fluent in 6 languages, and gets by in several more. Dylan is, besides a teacher, a professional development provider specializing in E.P.I., metacognition, teaching languages through music (especially ukulele) and cognitive science. In the last five years, together with Dr Conti, his mentor, and one of the greatest minds in the language pedagogy field, he has driven the implementation of E.P.I. in one of the top international schools in the world: Garden International School. This has allowed him to test, on a daily basis, the sequences and activities included in this book with excellent results (his students have won language competitions both locally and internationally). He has designed an original Spanish curriculum, bespoke instructional materials, based on Reading and Listening as Modelling (LAM and RAM). Dylan co- founded the fastest growing professional development group for modern languages teachers on Facebook, Global Innovative Languages Teachers, which includes over 16,000 teachers from all corners of the globe. He authors an influential blog on modern language pedagogy in which he supports the teaching of languages through E.P.I. Dylan is the lead author of Spanish content on the Language Gym website and oversees the technological development of the site. Read more about this author Read less about this author Read more about this author Read less about this author Additional authors: Dr Gianfranco Conti Dr Gianfranco Conti author Mr Dylan Viñales author Dr Gianfranco Conti author