As we tentatively proceed into this brave new teaching world of the 21 st century, much debate is centering on the effective teaching of English to young learners. Key to this discussion has been the role of the young learner syllabus. While this article makes reference to the teaching of English to young learners in an ESL context based on documentation developed within the European Union, the...

This paper describes the philosophy behind our tool called “Legal Taxonomy Syllabus”, the analytical instruments it provides and some case studies. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus allows to build legal dictionaries in a bottom up fashion starting f...

The original proposal of the IOI Syllabus was co-authored by Tom Verhoeff1, Gyula Horváth2, Krzysztof Diks3, and Gordon Cormack4. The current maintainer of the Syllabus is Michal Forǐsek5. The Syllabus evolves thanks to input from the IOI community. The following people helped to evolve the Syllabus by sending in their feedback: Paul Ashton (NZL), Thomas Barnet-Lamb (GBR), Giorgio Casadei (ITA)...