International Teacher Certificate

Marc Levitt is a speaker/story teller/consultant who travels to international schools and encourages students to tell their third culture stories.

For anyone with friends/relatives in the USA - this can be ordered from walmart ($25) and is able to do all the video and audio recording that's needed for the ITC in the right format.

Downloadable software for reducing the size of videos - for windows and macs

Free downloads to convert and edit your videos for macs.

This is a link to Ellen Bialystok and various articles on her research into bilingualism. An interesting one on how being bilingual delays the onset of dementia!!

A 42 page document from Ireland on intercultural education in the primary classroom. An excellent resource.

An article from the International Herald Tribune questioning whether bilinguals are smarter.

A newspaper article that refers to various research projects which demonstrate the cognitive advantages and benefits of being raised bilingually as contrasted with monolinguals.

This is a link to free software to help you edit audio files.

Study Skills - a 50 page document by Stella Cottrell

A debate in the NY Times - links to a number of articles with various people arguing the value of learning other languages.

An article in the NY times on the linguistic abilities of Americans and how the census questions might give a false impression of the linguistic abilities of Americans.

This links to the abstract of an article by Michael Marland on the transition from school to university. You (or your school) needs to have a subscription to the journal by Sage in order to access the full article.

From the University of Nottingham, UK's website

Article for those going to the UK. Published in the Guardian newspaper in 2008

This contains the profile of the ideal IBO learner