Calliope Group is orgnizing a series of Public Speaking  Contests  throughout the kingdom ( Agadir, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier...) and supporting a bunch of other English language education  endeavors.

We, ELT professionals at Taza-Alhouceima-Taounate Academy of Education and Training and members of Ed-links-Morocco, are looking forward to having Calliope…

     Assessment is one of the main important issues in education in general and in language teaching in particular. Teachers of second languages manage to put theories of second language teaching into practice; however, they can never assimilate the validity of the practiced theory unless they measure the learners’ success. Measuring the learners’ success requires collecting information about the learner’s knowledge, skills, abilities and performance. This process…

Across the globe, teachers consistently receive professional development (PD) that they do not value, that they believe has little impact (OECD, 2008; Burns, 2007), and that research shows does not work (Showers & Joyce, 1996).

Across the globe, the majority of the world’s teachers, despite the diversity of their professional contexts, participate in a remarkably uniform model of PD—the workshop or “training”—despite research showing that such a model is unlikely to influence…

On Behalf of Walid

Concerning my research interests, as I told you yesterday, I am 2nd year  PhD student in Fes. My thesis is a modest attempt to explore  cross- cultural differences in using web 2.0 tools for self-directed learning: the case of Moroccan and American university students. In fact, I'm almost done with the review of literature  except that I have some problems  in finding  references contextualising the issue (studies done in the Moroccan context) for comparative…