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Reimagining Language Support.

Research-based strategies & systems for language learners & teachers.

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Language Support Built Into School Culture

Your multilingual learners are capable – you can see it. But something isn’t adding up. Somewhere between the classroom discussions and the written assessments, something gets lost – the ideas, the concepts, the critical thinking.

That’s exactly where The Language Learning Lab can help.

We help schools create equitable, research-informed support for multilingual learners through consulting, professional learning, and practical classroom tools. We:

Build inclusive schoolwide language-learning systems that last.
Strengthen teacher capacity and confidence.
Empower your teachers to maintain academic rigor and support multilingual learners.
Shift mindsets to authentically honor and celebrate linguistic diversity.

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Meet Our Experts

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Nina Hall

After 13 years leading multilingual programs in international schools around the world, Nina saw the same problem repeated everywhere: language support was being treated as an afterthought instead of a core part of teaching and learning. Too often, multilingual learners were expected to adapt to systems that were never designed with them in mind.

That realization led her to found The Language Learning Lab, an educational consultancy that helps schools build mission-aligned systems where language development is embedded across the entire school experience—not isolated in a side program.

Ben Seal

Ben Seal has dedicated his whole career to teaching and connecting with others, mostly in international settings. In addition to working in international schools and leading EAL departments in British boarding schools, he has founded Austen Education, an organisation dedicated to bringing people together through the power of connecting through languages.

Having lived and taught in six countries, he is passionate about bringing multilingualism to his schools and, in addition to his home language, he has worked in organisations, using his Mandarin, German and Indonesian as the main language of the work environment.

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Zack McMacken

Zack McMacken is an international educator, writer, language acquisition specialist, and founder of McMentor Global Learning, with over 13 years of experience in international schools across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His work focuses on multilingualism, translanguaging, intercultural communication, and personalized learning pathways within IB and international education contexts. Holding degrees in languages, literature, and international education, Zack brings both academic expertise and lived experience to his work as a polyglot who learned multiple languages through vastly differing cultural, academic, and immersive contexts- an experience that led him to deeply explore questions of method, identity, and authentic communication.

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Kaye Meakin

Kaye is an experienced international educator and curriculum leader who has dedicated the past 16 years of her career to working in leading international schools across Asia. Her leadership journey includes serving as the Founding Literacy Leader of a bilingual international school in Vietnam, where she developed a deep passion for integrating language-learning approaches within mainstream classrooms to ensure every child can thrive.

Driven by a commitment to inclusive and equitable education, Kaye has led whole-school professional learning, completed advanced middle leadership training focused on literacy integration for multilingual language learners (MLLs) within the Vietnamese context, and earned her DYSLANG qualification to strengthen the identification and support of diverse learning needs. She also completed her National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL), undertaking research and action research focused on identifying and removing barriers to learning while developing strategies to raise learners’ self-esteem, confidence, and engagement. This work further strengthened her belief that academic success is intrinsically linked to wellbeing, belonging, and positive learner identity.

Throughout her career, Kaye has held a range of literacy leadership positions, empowering educators to create rich language environments that promote vocabulary development, student agency, confidence, and academic success. She has provided professional development across schools to raise awareness of the importance of exposing multilingual learners to rich vocabulary, fostering high expectations through a ceilingless approach to learning, and implementing evidence-informed strategies such as translanguaging and visual scaffolds to maximise access and achievement.

Kaye is a strong advocate for learner-centred, label-free teaching approaches that recognise and celebrate individual strengths. Passionate about both innovation and inclusion, she champions arts-integrated learning as a powerful vehicle for expression, creativity, and deeper understanding. Her educational philosophy is grounded in the belief that every child deserves to feel valued, capable, and empowered to use their voice, enabling all learners to flourish both academically and personally.

Alongside his career in education, Zack has also worked as a writer and actor in community theatre productions, experiences that continue to shape his emphasis on voice, storytelling, confidence, and human connection in learning. Through consulting, professional development, writing, and curriculum design, he helps schools, families, and individuals create inclusive, globally minded, and deeply personalized educational experiences.

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Jose V. Torres

Jose V. Torres is a researcher, author, educator, podcaster and advocate whose work focuses on language acquisition, structured literacy, and effective instruction for multilingual learners. As the creator of the I Want To Learn English (IWTLE) framework and textbooks, he has developed widely used resources that translate research into practical classroom strategies. Jose regularly presents at international conferences and contributes to the growing body of research on literacy development and English language learning.