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Learning to Learn

18 de janeiro de 2015

This month’s post is about different ways of learning, or learning styles, as some authors put it. It’s also about why I believe they exist even when we totally ignore their existence. It is a controversial issue for many teachers, who have mixed feelings about it. Do Learning Styles really exist? Are they just...Read More

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

ELT materials, learning, learning styles, Marjorie Rosenberg, myths, webinar

Une Tomate Rouge and How Languages Work

18 de dezembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

1. Une Tomate Rouge Less than a month ago I decided to take up French and I am already being faced with big challenges: I had assumed that languages close to your own in the language tree should not be too hard to learn, so I picked...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, language development, learning styles, skype, teaching styles

Mentoring: As Good as it Gets

17 de novembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

When I started teaching a long time ago, I didn’t have a mentor. I had colleagues and students, and occasionally I would seek help from a more experienced teacher. It was usually a question about the material or language that I couldn’t answer myself. Other than that, I relied pretty much on teachers’ guides even...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

mentor, mentoring, new teachers

Reading Made Easy for Learners

19 de outubro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

As a teenager, I read anything I could lay my hands on; that included all sorts of literature: good and bad. It didn’t matter as long as it was an interesting story ( from a young girl’s perspective, I might say). As a young English language learner, I was lucky to study at an English...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Resources, Vocabulary

library, motivation, reading, reading tasks

To Sir, with Love

18 de setembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

‘To Sir, with Love‘ was perhaps the most watched and the most loved movie in my teenage years. The East London high school teacher who gave up on the school textbooks to teach his rowdy, disruptive students about life, was every teenage kid’s hero. I’ve just come across the website below, which offers a glimpse...Read More

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

difficult students, jill Hadfield, Lindsay Clandfield, Luke Prodromou, strategies

We need to talk about English

17 de agosto de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

I’ve recently come across Deena Boraie’s 2013 post on the TESOL webpage in which she lists the latest trends in EFL. Two of these trends immediately caught my eye: Change in the Goal of Teaching English: Our goals are no longer to transform our students into imitations of native speakers, but into “competent English-knowing bilinguals,”...Read More

Career, Grammar, Pronunciation, Resources, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

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

One flew east, one flew west, and NNESTs flew everywhere.

17 de junho de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

The challenge of being a non-native English speaker in a native English speaking world I recently came across EFL teacher James Taylor’s blog post about NNESTs’ struggle to be respected as English teachers by students and employers. In his guest blog post, James lists a number of advantages of being a NNEST over a...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Brazil, career, James Taylor, language proficiency, native speakers, NEST, NNEST, non-native speakers

Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something cool to use with music.

18 de maio de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

Music and teaching go back a long way in my career. In the beginning there were the Beatles, the Carpenters, Carly Simon, The Police, and any other band that my students happened to enjoy. We have all experienced the incredible mood-altering power of music and we’ve seen it melt away a bad mood in our...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Vocabulary

creativity, ideas, songs, warmers

Eating People is Wrong

18 de abril de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

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

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