A practical seminar “Meaningful Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language: Integrating Fiction”. March 17, 2023. Lecturer: Saulius Skučas

On Friday, March 17, a group of teachers from Kaunas, Garliava, Akademija, Babtai, Vilnius, Mažeikiai and Trakai met at Kaunas Jonas Jablonskis Gymnasium for a practical seminar organized by LAKMA and led by a LAKMA board member, teacher expert of English, Saulius Skučas. The seminar “Meaningful Teaching and Learning of a Foreign Language: Integrating Fiction”…

Online Training for Teachers “Plurilingual learning environment at school: sharing the US practice” November 11 – December 9, 2022. Lecturer: Heather Gaddis

As society becomes more linguistically, racially, socially and culturally diverse, it is necessary for schools, particularly language teachers, to take steps to make their classrooms more inclusive so that their students feel included and involved in their own education. Plurilingual education makes use of strategies that facilitate the inclusion of all aspects of students´ identities….

Online workshops “Essay Types in the National Curriculum for Foreign Languages: Revisiting Organisational Patterns and Approaches to Teaching” April – May, 2022

The spring of 2022 was rich in numbers of participants who took part in 2 online workshops “Essay Types in the New National Curriculum for Foreign Languages: Revisiting Organisational Patterns and Approaches to teaching” which were given by the lecturer Jurga Kasteckienė. During the seminars, 122 teachers broadened their knowledge of different organizational patterns of…

Online workshop “Speaking Exam: Quick Tips and Further Practice” April 09, 2022

On 9 April, 2022, Lina Fedorčenkienė, who is a lecturer at Vilnius University and American English School, with 20-year experience of teaching, gave a useful online workshop “Speaking Exam: Quick Tips and Further Practice” in which 34 teachers of English were provided with various tips and learned some methods of teaching speaking both in online…

20 th LAKMA International Conference “Mediation in Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment” 22-10-2021

The term “mediation” is not new to foreign language teachers in Lithuania. Mediation skills have beendiscussed for more than a decade by language teaching professionals as they are an important part ofcommunicative competence in our multilingual and multicultural world. This term has become particularlyrelevant this year, as the Lithuanian National Curriculum for Foreign Languages (which…