Owner/ Director Professional learning and consultancy services in Languages
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined October 2010
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Leveraging AI for Resource Creation in Languages: two to go in 2025!👏👏👏
Get on board via the link below or head to the ADECS website 🙌🪩🤖
@MLTANSW @MLTAvic @MLTAWA @MLTAQld #mfl #ai #languages #mfltwitterati
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Just updated the ADECS TPT site with some brand new Stage 6 resources: Scope & Sequence docs, speaking pathways and resource packs for Continuers and Extension. Check it out! 🙌👀
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Most teachers have never heard of it. Yet it might be the most powerful memory principle in language learning.
📷 Want your students to actually use what they’ve learned in real conversations and exams?
Then you need to know about Transfer-Appropriate Processing (TAP).
📷 Discover why so much of what we do in the MFL classroom fails—and how to fix it:
📷 Read the full article here:
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#MFL #LanguageLearning #CognitiveScience #TAP #ContiMethod #PedagogyThatWorks
One of the Least Known Yet Most Consequential Principles in Language Learning: Transfer-Appropriate Processing (TAP)
I couldn't agree more. It's such a shame that languages education only ever seems to get a mention around election time...
Some great news for community languages in Australia. I would love to see this level of investment in language teaching in Australian schools. sbs.com.au/news/article/labo…
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👏 2 days to go!👏
Bring your questions, and stay for the chat!
'You, I & EPI - an evening with Dr Conti'
✅ this Saturday April 5
✅ 7pm-9pm AEDT (via Zoom)
✅ Everyone welcome!
Register here ➡️ bit.ly/EPI_05Apr25
@MLTANSW @MLTAQld @MLTAvic @MLTAWA @gianfrancocont9 #mfl
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📢Attention EPI-aficionados!📢
Join us online for an informal Q&A with @gianfrancocont9 to chat about all things EPI. Register your place (and your questions!) at bit.ly/EPI_05Apr25
@FbGilt @AFMLTA @MLTANSW @LanguagesNSW #mfltwitterati #epi #languages #mfl #adecs
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@JezequelR @MrVinalesMFL @Aurelie_LTH @RyanCockrell14 @bengeorgelevi @gianfrancocont9 @simograv
Check this out if you want to place bulk older for The Language Gym products with substantive discounts
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Whether a seasoned campaigner or just curious about EPI, this event is for everyone! Pre-register your questions or just tune in for the general discussion as @gianfrancocont9 addresses queries on the implementation of EPI.
#mltasa #naft #mltansw #daf #mfltwitterati #mltaact
Alison Dean retweeted
"Perplexity provided incorrect information in 37 percent of the queries tested, whereas ChatGPT Search incorrectly identified 67 percent (134 out of 200) of articles queried. Grok 3 demonstrated the highest error rate, at 94 percent."
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Abbey’s bookshop in Sydney, the only specialised language bookshop in town selling our sentence builders books. Many thanks to Julia for sending this!
@JezequelR @MrVinalesMFL @Aurelie_LTH @2803ali
Just finished updating the ADECS website 🥳
New blog post, course and consultancy information ✨️
Check it out! 🙌
adecs.com.au
@MLTANSW @LanguagesNSW @NewsAtNESA @gianfrancocont9 #mfl #Languages
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Another research-based post on The Language Gym
Why Teaching Chunks in MFL is More Effective for Developing Fluency: A Research-Based Perspective
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@JezequelR @MrVinalesMFL @RyanCockrell14 @bengeorgelevi @HerrHollis @simograv @2803ali @jean_pjtwood @MartinLapworth @Language_Gym @Aurelie_LTH
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Whether a seasoned campaigner or just curious about EPI, this event is for everyone! Pre-register your questions or just tune in for the general discussion as @gianfrancocont9 addresses queries on the implementation of EPI.
#mltasa #naft #mltansw #daf #mfltwitterati #mltaact
Alison Dean retweeted
Wow, what a response! 🎉
Some really insightful questions so far. This is going to be great! 🙌
Get in quick as places are limited 🏃♀️
@gianfrancocont9 @FbGilt @LanguagesNSW @MLTANSW @AFMLTA #mfltwitterati #Languages #epi
📢Attention EPI-aficionados!📢
Join us online for an informal Q&A with @gianfrancocont9 to chat about all things EPI. Register your place (and your questions!) at bit.ly/EPI_05Apr25
@FbGilt @AFMLTA @MLTANSW @LanguagesNSW #mfltwitterati #epi #languages #mfl #adecs