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The Importance of Increasing Students’ Q.A.R. – Questions and Answers Repertoire

5 de dezembro de 2019

Once in Paris, I had a friend teaching me the following phrase in case I needed to ask for information: Bonjour! Je suis désolé! Où je trouve les toilettes, s’il vous plaît? Apparently, my question was well asked as I was ‘gunnned down’ by the fastest French speech I have ever heard. It is obvious...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

knowledge, language learning

We don’t live in boxes

30 de setembro de 2019

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

Chaos. That’s what the world is all about. We spend our whole lives trying to organize what cannot be organized. We want to predict the unpredictable. We believe we can have control over our lives but there is no control. We have been doing the same with Education for centuries. We try to put knowledge...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education

bilingual-education, chaos, language learning, learning process, teaching

Reflections on collaborative work

30 de maio de 2018

by Marcela Cintra

Innovations in various fields and changes in society behaviour and interaction have been giving us teachers a plethora of opportunities to grow and maximise language learning. Research has also shown that the skills learners need to develop require action from the very beginning of our students’ academic life. In this ‘framework for 21st century learning’...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

collaborative-work, language learning, reflections about education

Humanizing the Language Classroom

29 de maio de 2015

by Anderson Maia

One of today’s major principles in ELT is the focus on learning and the learner. Books, articles, researchers and teachers all preach about the importance of humanizing pedagogical decisions, directing their attention to actually developing people – the language learners. Learning strategies, multiple intelligences, learning channels, scaffolding strategies, adequate assessment tools, and varied multi-modal resources...Read More

Career

instruction (de)humanizing, language learning, pedagogical decisions

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

The University of Edinburgh has just proven that I was right!

17 de junho de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Good news for teachers (and even better news for students) of foreign languages: a new longitudinal research, whose results were recently published in a journal of the American Neurological Association, reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition and may delay the onset of dementia in older adults. The participants, who live in the...Read More

Language Acquisition

Adult education, brain, language learning