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A true story… My work is effective!

7 de outubro de 2015

It’s amazing how things happen in life. Learning English has always been a passion for me and this is what I want to pass on to my students, but we never know if this is actually achievable… Well, other day I was taking part in a social event when a woman, accompanied by her husband,...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Where my dance teachers went wrong and what that taught me about teaching beginners

5 de outubro de 2015

by Natália Guerreiro

“And 5… 5, 6, 7, 8!” More than 15 years after I had my first lessons, I decided to take up ballroom dancing again. My Better Half dutifully tagged along, but the difference was he was a true beginner. Three months later, we quit, feeling like complete and utter failures. We still want to learn...Read More

Classroom Management

classroom management, teaching beginners, teaching techniques, TTT, what not to do

Language which comes up during the lesson

3 de outubro de 2015

by Dominic Walters

I have heard it being called ‘emerging language‘ and ‘incidental language‘. However, I prefer ‘emerging unplanned language ‘ (EUL) as ‘emerging language’ is often used in a wider language acquisition sense and ‘incidental’ can imply something of minor consequence, which it is not. If anyone has an existant word, or a better one, then please...Read More

Language Acquisition

Ask not what the internet can do for you

25 de setembro de 2015

by Vivian Magalhães

When we, English teachers, think of the internet, we often tend to think about what it has to offer: unlimited information at our fingertips, ready-made materials for download, songs with their lyrics, clipart and other graphic resources, teaching ideas, podcasts, videos, tutorials, educational online games and many other resources that were unavailable when most of...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

Collaborative Education, Getting and Giving, internet

Ser fluente é falar como um nativo. Será?

22 de setembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

No artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, apresentei algumas definições de “fluência” comumente encontradas na internet e procurei mostrar como elas são ainda bastante vagas e controversas (mesmo entre os profissionais da área de idiomas), dando ensejo aos mais diversos usos e abusos do termo pelo mercado....Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

aprendizado de idiomas, aquisição de fluência, falante não nativo, falante nativo, falar fluentemente, fluência

The No-Easy Task of Giving Novice Teachers Negative Feedback

19 de setembro de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Today’s post is about giving negative feedback during pre-service teacher training courses for novice teachers. I am quite sure that a very large number of this blog’s writers – if not all of us – have, at one point or another, been involved with the difficult and highly demanding job of training teachers. Not only...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Teacher Development

Lesson observation, negative feedback, reflection, teacher training

Teachers as practitioner researchers

18 de setembro de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

“…and three things really matter: (1) deciding on something that you want to do; (2) that you can do; and (3) that is really worth doing.” —- Keith Richards, Qualitative Enquiry in TESOL (2003) When teachers investigate their own practice through research, they become practitioner researchers. To become a practitioner researcher, we need to nurture...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

critical thinking, Keith Richards, practitioner research, research

English Teaching: Recession proof?

12 de setembro de 2015

by Stephen Greene

It’s something I’ve heard from other teachers. It’s something a lot of my non-teaching friends seem to believe. It’s something I’ve even said myself as I am trying to convince myself I am in the right profession: Teaching English is recession proof. In the good times people need English and have the money to spend...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

Crisis, HSBC, Recession, Recession proof

The Power of Portfolio Assessment

8 de setembro de 2015

by Isabela Villas Boas

Despite my 15 years of experience with portfolio assessment, its power never ceases to amaze me. I’ve recently conducted a course for public school English teachers in the Federal District and, once again, used portfolio assessment. I have a feeling that some educators might not adopt portfolio assessment because they think it is too complicated;...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Teacher Development

assessment, classroom assessment, portfolio assessment

Is CLIL an approach to apply to our EFL lessons?

7 de setembro de 2015

by Beatriz Meneguetti

CLIL is a fairly recent way of teaching. An acronym standing for Content and Language Integrated Learning – according to Mehisto et all [2008] it is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. A lot is said and discussed about CLIL...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

CLIL, EFL classes

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