News @ ILS
April 2019 - Lord Mayor Launches our 2nd Storytelling Book
March 2019 - Website of the month:
An excellent resource bank from the British Council for ELT professionals. Find webinars, videos, articles, publications and ready-made training sessions - link here
January 2019
We are delighted to announce our participation in the 2019 Mother Tongues Festival by presenting our Intercultural Storytelling in a workshop designed to meet a wider audience. See this link for more information:
Intercultural Storytelling@MotherTongues
'Tabliteracy' - ELearning at ILS
March 2019 - Website of the month:
An excellent resource bank from the British Council for ELT professionals. Find webinars, videos, articles, publications and ready-made training sessions - link here
January 2019
We are delighted to announce our participation in the 2019 Mother Tongues Festival by presenting our Intercultural Storytelling in a workshop designed to meet a wider audience. See this link for more information:
Intercultural Storytelling@MotherTongues
'Tabliteracy' - ELearning at ILS
December 2018 - We have started piloting an ELearning project using Tablets and literacy apps to help low-level learners. We are researching and developing a system which will help the most excluded learners accelerate the language and literacy competence to make living in Ireland a more inclusive experience. ‘Tabliteracy’ involves using a suite of freely available literacy apps to help learners who come from diverse scripts – Arabic, Chinese, for example, or who have limited literacy/education in their own language, to get to grips with the English script and sound system.
September 2018: The Lord Mayor launches our Intercultural Storytelling Book as part of Dublin's Social Inclusion Week!
November 2017: Our Drama Course has started and is open to all every Friday 10 am to 12 until The December holidays!
June 2017: DCILS has been awarded the 2017 Engage and Educate Fund by the Minster for Education to help grow our social model of English education: www.socialinnovation.ie/engage-and-educate
April 2017:
MELLIE project at DCU: dcu.ie/news/2017/mar/s0317e.shtml
Well done to Dr Veronica Crosbie of DCU for involving refugees from direct provision in Mosney in an intercultural storytelling project: "The university is now pleased to announce the new Migrant English Language, Literacy and Intercultural Education (MELLIE) Programme. MELLIE is an innovative extra-curricular pilot project designed to facilitate language and cultural exchange between DCU students and staff, and asylum seekers from Mosney Direct Provision Centre, Co. Meath."
MELLIE project at DCU: dcu.ie/news/2017/mar/s0317e.shtml
Well done to Dr Veronica Crosbie of DCU for involving refugees from direct provision in Mosney in an intercultural storytelling project: "The university is now pleased to announce the new Migrant English Language, Literacy and Intercultural Education (MELLIE) Programme. MELLIE is an innovative extra-curricular pilot project designed to facilitate language and cultural exchange between DCU students and staff, and asylum seekers from Mosney Direct Provision Centre, Co. Meath."