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Eating People is Wrong

18 de abril de 2014

I picked this title from Goodreads‘ weird book titles. By the way, the title above is from a book by English author and academic Malcom Bradbury (1932-2000), whom I have never read and whose book I am now curious about. The reason why I picked a random title for my post was because I wanted...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills, Vocabulary

Falando Sobre Collocation

26 de março de 2014

by Denilso de Lima

O termo collocation já faz parte do cenário de ensino de língua inglesa há um bom tempo. Há na história relatos sobre collocations desde o ano de 1933. Harold Palmer, linguista inglês, é tido como o primeiro a citar tal termo. Na introdução de um de seus livros, ele escreveu: “When a word forms an...Read More

Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

Lexical Mathematics 1: Flesh + Bones = Added Bonus

24 de março de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

It is widely known that some approaches to teaching in the past consciously placed vocabulary as a secondary feature of language. In other words, one was made to think of grammar as the bones of the language whilst vocabulary as the flesh to be added. However, Harmer (1997) has a point when he states that...Read More

Vocabulary

collocations, fluency and accurary., lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

The video game is on the table!

15 de março de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Já ouvi muitas pessoas torcerem a cara para jogos de video game: são violentos, viciantes… Nada de bom parece vir desses brinquedos “malditos”. Entretanto, há mais benefícios do que se pode perceber e que eu, como um gamer de longa data (e estudioso dos efeitos do lúdico na aprendizagem), poderia elencar aqui. Mas como este...Read More

Educational Technology, Games, Technology, Vocabulary

inglês, jogos eletrônicos, video game

A year in words

14 de janeiro de 2014

by Damian Willians

Have you taken many selfies recently? If so, was it because you were enjoying some me time, and wanted to share the moment with friends, or were you just in a bit of a dappy mood? Squee! Image: Stuart Miles/freedigitalphotos.net If you followed that paragraph, then well done, but perhaps it’s time to move...Read More

Vocabulary

2013, 2014, acronym, buzzworthy, damian williams, dappy, delta, me time, merriam webster, new words, omnishambles, oxford dictionaries, phablet, portmanteau, selfie, squee, tailor made english, tme, word of the year

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