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What does ‘good English’ even mean?

5 de novembro de 2018

“Your English is so beautiful.” – I sometimes hear, and I promise you I have a point in writing this, which is not that I’m a Leo (although I am). In fact, I’ve always been a bit reticent about those compliments about my English language proficiency, especially when they come from laypeople. I mean, we...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, assessment criteria, communicative competence, fluency, indigenous assessment criteria, research

Is Your English Fully Operational? – Accurate, Fluent and Fluid Speaking

24 de agosto de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

Scarcella and Oxford (1992) mention that ‘a learner will basically need to develop competences in order to become proficient in an L2 – grammatical competence, socialinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence.’ I bet that at the some point of your teaching career you have come across that student who wants to learn only to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, fluidity, speaking, speaking skills

Inquisitive Ears – Helping learners develop their collocational competence

1 de março de 2017

by Lenora Haranaka

How many of us have heard learners expressing the wish ‘I want to be fluent in English’? But then, what does it mean to be fluent? As the title suggests, I truly believe in walking through life with our ears wide open, and there is one belief that has permeated my teaching over the years:...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

collocational competence, communication, EFL, fluency, learning strategy, motivation, triggering curiosity

Para ser fluente é preciso pensar no idioma?

22 de novembro de 2016

by Marcelo de Cristo

Pensar é algo natural para todos nós. Segundo a Wikipedia, é uma faculdade do nosso sistema mental através da qual modelamos o mundo para nele podermos transitar e agir segundo a nossa vontade. Pensar vem de fábrica, ou seja, é grátis. Por esse motivo, não se aprende a pensar. Se é assim, por quê então...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, esl, fluency, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition, Young learners

Sobre “yellow and red” e a dificuldade de prestarmos atenção ao que falamos

22 de agosto de 2016

by Marcelo de Cristo

Durante a cerimônia de encerramento dos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio de Janeiro, transmitida ao vivo para o mundo inteiro, o Brasil deu mais uma prova de que o nosso povo é capaz de realizar grandes feitos. O espetáculo estava uma lindeza só e tudo transcorria maravilhosamente bem: apresentações impecáveis dos nossos melhores artistas, espetáculos de...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, error correction, feedback, fluency, inglês, Language acquisition, teacher development

5 fenômenos que afetam sua fluência

22 de novembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

Todo estudante de língua estrangeira sonha com o tempo em que estará falando “fluentemente” o idioma escolhido. Dentre os principais mitos citados no artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, um dos mais frequentes é o de que ser fluente significa falar sem pausas. E não é pra...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

alongamentos, análise da fala, aquisição de fluência, falar fluentemente, false-starts, falsos começos, fillers, fluência, fluency, fluency-oriented, pausas, repetição

On Fluency and Accuracy

20 de abril de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Although attempts to define ‘fluency’ and ‘accuracy’ when speaking a foreign language abound in the specialized literature, there still does not seem to exist a consensus regarding a single, ultimate definition of either one of the terms. One of the reasons which could partly explain the lack of common ground among authors is the very...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, language chunks, vocabulary

Determination And What I Learned From Nicolas

15 de dezembro de 2014

by Adir Ferreira

Hi there and Happy Holidays! I just couldn’t get my head around what I was going to write this month until I witnessed something that brought one word to my mind: determination. As you may know, I don’t teach anymore. Nowadays I write content as a freelancer and I was finally able to launch an...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

fluency, storytelling

From Teacher back to Learner

18 de julho de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

At first I had set out to write about my professional journey as a NNEST in the 1980s, so I thought it would be nice to reflect on some of the first course books I used in my first years as a teacher. That was when I decided to ask for some help from the...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

fluency, Jeremy Harmer, language learning, NNESTs

Teaching English to deaf students – part 1

16 de julho de 2014

by Antonio Coutelo

The task of teaching a foreign language (therefore, a third language) for the deaf seems to be a question that can be postponed. As we know, many difficulties have already been identified concerning the teaching of first and second languages. Nevertheless, the history of deaf education shows that in sixteenth-century Spain the monk Pedro Ponce...Read More

Inclusive Teaching

deaf, fluency, libras, methodology

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