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Is there a genre for this text?

5 de julho de 2018

There’s a woman with a standing microphone next to a wooden stool on a stage. She speaks for about an hour and the paying audience laughs every now and then. What is this? It’s a stand-up comedy. Or maybe it isn’t. Oftentimes, when we are working on skills in a language class, we treat genres...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

critical thinking, discourse analysis, genre, genre theory

Listening challenges

12 de junho de 2018

by Stephen Greene

As promised, I am here. If anyone doubted me, doubt no longer. And I am here to talk about listening, just as I promised in my last blog piece. And, just like last week, we are going to have a story. Who doesn’t like a good story? Everyone loves a story, from your baby nephew...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Skills

Listening, listening proficiency, Listening skills, Teaching listening

Do You Listen To English?

12 de maio de 2018

by Stephen Greene

Before you say anything, I am sorry. Yes, I know I’ve said it before, but this time I mean it. I know I have been silent for a few months, and that the last time I was this quiet I apologised and swore it would never happen again. Only it did happen again and here...Read More

Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Listening in English, Listening skills, Teaching listening

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

How misheard lyrics can help your learners listen better

5 de fevereiro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

Do you have students that complain they can’t understand the listening tracks until you let them read the transcripts? The solution could be in Richard Cauldwell’s work, which has been brought to my attention by my dearest Higor Cavalcante. The author of Phonology for Listening and of the forthcoming A Syllabus for Listening, Cauldwell did an...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

bottom-up, higor cavalcante, language development, Listening, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, richard cauldwell, top-down

Building automaticity: a short story

13 de janeiro de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

Last January 3rd, my husband and I were driving back home from the beautiful state of Minas Gerais. Days before, during our stay in the effervescent Belo Horizonte, the capital city, we had met a very interesting twenty-something Japanese young man in the hostel. His name is Goro and he’d been living in Brazil for...Read More

Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

automaticity, speaking skills, spoken language

Taking the road less traveled by: Reflecting on class projects

19 de dezembro de 2017

by Teresa Carvalho

“And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” Robert Frost (1874-1963) It’s the beginning of the semester and you are still getting to know your...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Skills

class project, projects, teacher autonomy

Teste de nivelamento antes das aulas particulares?

8 de novembro de 2017

by Vinicius Diamantino

Em várias conversas com professores na DeProfPraProf sobre a estrutura de uma boa entrevista inicial, levantamento de necessidades, apresentação de proposta, fechamento, etc, têm aparecido também algumas perguntas sobre como fazer o nivelamento dos alunos. Daí eu gosto sempre de perguntar qual a finalidade do nivelamento onde, como todo mundo pode imaginar, sempre tenho como...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

habilidades-linguisticas, teste-de-nivelamento

Assessment types for young learners

7 de novembro de 2017

by Beatriz Meneguetti

Following the topic of previous months – assessing young learners – I will here discuss a bit some types we can use with this age groups. Effective language assessment provides chances for children to use their abilities to demonstrate what they can do at their appropriate level. It requires acknowledgement of the principles we have...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

language assessment, tradutor, Young learners

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

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