Learning Media Resources Soon Available In French
Learning Media Limited (LML), New Zealand’s premier educational publisher, and Chenelière Éducation, North America’s
largest French-language educational publisher, have agreed a partnership relationship giving Chenelière rights to
publish a range of LML resources in French for use in Canada.
“We’re very excited that our resources will now be available to French-speaking students and teachers”, said Gillian
Candler, Chief Executive of Learning Media. “Translations of our literacy materials into Spanish, Danish, Norwegian and
Swedish have been very successful. And we are a major publisher in te reo Māori and the languages of the Pacific.”
“We believe that, in the fields of literacy and numeracy, New Zealand has the best educators and educational resources
in the world. That’s why we are very proud to have secured the French translation rights to Learning Media’s excellent
products”, said Michel de la Chenelière, the founder and Chairman of Chenelière Éducation, who was in Wellington
recently to meet with LML management.
Chenelière publishes resources which are used in more than 5,000 educational institutions across Canada and distributed
in French-speaking markets in Europe and North Africa. Learning Media already exports English language resources to
Australia, Asia, Canada the U.K and the U.S, working through licensees and distributors in those countries.
The first French-language resources to come off the presses early this year will be Learning Media’s ‘Skyrider Shared
Reading’ series. Shared Reading is an interactive group reading experience, which enables the reading process and
reading strategies to be modelled to students. The ‘Skyrider’ series features large, self-contained, non-fiction
posters, and associated resources for students and the teacher.
For further information:
www.learningmedia.co.nz
Learning Media, a state-owned enterprise, is New Zealand’s premier designer, developer and publisher of educational
materials that enable and enhance effective teaching and learning. It produces most of the educational materials that
the Ministry of Education provides to schools and contracts publishing services to other government organisations and
commercial companies. The company exports to Australia, Asia, North America, the U.K, Scandinavia and other markets.
Alongside its publishing operations, Learning Media designs and delivers professional development programmes for New
Zealand and overseas teachers.