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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

The Soul Behind The Face – Teachers Making A Difference

24 de janeiro de 2019

by Adriano Zanetti

The academic year is just around the corner and every now and then we tend to start the New Year facing some challenges and the kind. Being an educator is not an easy task, dealing with stressful situations such as routine, and, to add insult to injury, many of us will have to perform a...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

challenges, CPD, critical thinking, motivation, reflection

Apprentice’ship’ – A Smooth Sea Does Not Make A Good Sailor – az

24 de outubro de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

It is generally known that learning your ropes is a key factor in developing your personal, academic and professional life. It is true that one always encounters a very competitive world, yet it is also true that facing this world with solid training is a way to allay their fears. According to FDR, ‘A smooth...Read More

Career

discipline, responsability, successful-career

Enhancing Lexical Strategies – Learning By Heart or Memory Habit Formation?

24 de maio de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

It goes without saying that vocabulary is one aspect language acquisition that plays an important role when learning one mother’s tongue, let alone a foreign language. I have often had learners saying that they can fairly get by grammatical structures and the real factor holding them back is how to put words within this lexical...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Vocabulary

Classroom experiences, intelligibility, Language acquisition, motivation, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

Power To The Music

24 de fevereiro de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

Power To The Music It is funny how people (students) may instantly think of CCR’s ‘Have you ever seen the rain?’ when you start off a conversation with the chunk ‘Have you ever Blahed?’. Have you ever (seen the rain? – lol) stopped and thought how powerful music can be in terms of learning opportunities?...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

An ELT Teacher – A Profession or Occupation?

24 de janeiro de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

We language educators often get asked what else we do apart from teaching English. Now, this takes the biscuits on the grounds that some people are hell-bent on this to mystify whether we take our profession seriously or not. It is generally known that an L2 teacher is supposed to be someone graduated, qualified or...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

elt, english language teaching, english teacher, language development, professional development, professional-educators, professor-de-inglês, reflection, teacher development, teachers-language-development-for-teachers

Paths To Professionalism – Challenges Stem From Where You Stem From

24 de novembro de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

How did you get into English Language teaching, and why do you still do it? I come from a family of musicians and English first caught my interest when I came across Pink Floyd and The Ramones with their lyrics and fast singing. My English teacher at Secondary School (Neusa Lombardi) spotted this ‘talent for...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

challenges, language, professionalism, teaching

What Makes A Good Speaking Class?

24 de outubro de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

Whatever needs analyses one carries out with their groups, there is every likelihood that 9 out 10 will record that they will want to improve their speaking skills best. At this point I do not believe that anyone involved in ELT would be surprised at this, yet we can witness the fact that developing speaking...Read More

Skills

elt, speaking skills, speaking-class

Game On – Need For Speed or Speed Racer?

5 de outubro de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

By definition reading is the action of a person who looks at and understands the meaning of written or printed words or symbols. But there is much more to that than meet the eyes. Nuttall (1996:2) believes that not only does reading comprise decoding, deciphering and identifying words, but it is above all an opportunity...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

language, reading, reading_fluidity, reading_proficiency

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