What is the Learning Village?

The Learning Village is an image-based English as an Additional Language (EAL) programme for pupils. It follows a blended approach, with a comprehensive online programme supported by offline, teacher-directed learning. Beginning with everyday survival language and phonics, it leads onto specific curriculum content.

It includes:

• 10,000+ words and phrases, for speaking, listening, reading and writing
• Image-based learning, to assist learners who are unable to read in their mother tongue
• Excellent support for Special Educational Needs learners
• Techniques to help learners support themselves
• Support for blended learning and for self-study

The Learning Village is fun! It's a vibrant, interactive world where learners visit places, play games and make virtual friends - while learning English.

The Learning Village is designed to integrate with a learner's classwork curriculum. It ensures that EAL arrivals grasp the fundamentals of English and learn the necessary curriculum vocabulary and language structures. In addition, detailed assessment is built into the system - you know exactly where your learners are on their learning journey and how to target their needs.

The programme includes three Learning Journeys:

1. Survival Language: for learners who are new-to-English, covering vocabulary and language structures
2. Phonics: teaching reading through sounds
3. Curriculum content: introducing the vocabulary needed for the most requested areas of the school curriculum

What makes the Learning Village different?

• The Learning Village is all about learning through images. The platform is built for all learners, including those who can't read or write in their home language. The images are clear and accurate and provide a truly immersive learning experience.
• The image-based programme provides inclusion for all, no matter what a learner's level of literacy of what language they speak (maybe an unwritten language or a less widely translated one).
• When required, it also offers translation into up to 100 languages.
• The Learning Village is specifically designed for schools and for teachers. It targets vital curriculum areas and enables integration into the mainstream classroom.
• The Learning Village is a carefully targeted programme. One size doesn't fit all - each student has individual language learning needs and the Learning Village allows each to follow an individual pathway.
• The Learning Village is a mix of offline and online learning. Offline resources for small-group teaching and for learning at home support and complement the online programme.
• The Learning Village provides solid linguistic foundations. Instead of just simplistic translation or basic vocabulary, each lesson introduces a vital sentence structure, often embedding technical language in useful sentence patterns.
• new interactive world, students are learning all the time - and enjoying it!

Speaking, listening, reading and writing

• The Learning Village models correct pronunciation and requires the learner to respond orally through its speech recognition feature. A structured approach build confidence in speaking and ensures learners articulate their new language quickly.
• The Learning Village's listening activities are delivered in sentence patterns (language chunks) to support understanding at a level learner can repeatedly access - engaging them properly.
• The Learning Village writing activities match the appropriate stage of learning and focus on the use of writing in real-life settings.