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We need to talk about English

17 de agosto de 2014

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

Revisiting ELT Mantras #6: Reading aloud

14 de agosto de 2014

by Damian Willians

Picture the scene: There I was, a shy 13-year-old boy, dressed in an itchy, ill-fitting school uniform in the middle of a German language class. Our teacher, Mrs. Dawson, a strict woman who ruled the classroom with an iron fist, is going round the class calling out people to read chunks of a text out...Read More

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

EFL, elt, esl, reading, reading aloud, speaking

What is ‘meaningful learning’?

31 de julho de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! Many years ago I took a class in educational psychology and came across this quote from the cognitive psychologist, David Ausubel: “If I had to reduce all of cognitive psychology to one principle it would be this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and...Read More

Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

classroom activity, Language acquisition, teacher development, teaching

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT: N is for Natives

30 de julho de 2014

by Dennis Warren

#5: N is for Natives I’m not going to revisit the old stuff about inherent linguistic knowledge vs explicit understanding, nor the career teacher vs the traveller, and certainly not local cultural knowledge versus target cultural knowledge. I’m going to ask a simple question. What’s the difference between a table and a native teacher of...Read More

Teacher Development

Usar o Português na Aula de Inglês: sim ou não?

26 de julho de 2014

by Denilso de Lima

O que você pensa sobre o uso da língua portuguesa nas aulas de inglês? Você é daqueles ou daquelas que o simples fato de soltar uma palavra em português durante a aula é algo abominável? Neste artigo apresento os argumentos a favor do uso prudente do uso da língua materna no ensino de inglês dentro...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Teacher Development

Re•sil•ience

23 de julho de 2014

by cecilialemos

/riˈzilyəns/ noun: resilience; plural noun: resiliences 1. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. 2. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Some of you may be wondering why I am talking about resilience in a blog post for English teachers, but for some reason I think...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, language development for teachers, teacher development, well-being

HOW CAN I CREATE AN ONLINE COURSE? Oh oh, that’s not a simple question

22 de julho de 2014

by Ana Maria Menezes

This post was inspired by a question sent to me by a friend, who is a very talented teacher and would like to start an online course. In her message, she mentions not being able to find a good video tutorial which could help her get started and asks my opinion about the best platform....Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Technology

online course, platform, virtual environment

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

Ice-breakers, Warmers and Fillers

17 de julho de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Some teachers see warmers, ice-breakers and fillers as basically different ways to say the same thing. In fact, they are quite different. While ice-breakers are usually meant to help students get to know each other better, the objective of warmers is to get them ready for a certain topic or task. Fillers, on the other...Read More

Games, Grammar, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

activities, fillers, ice-breakers, warmers

Towards a smaller future

3 de julho de 2014

by Dominic Walters

Am I right in assuming that more and more people are now looking beyond traditional learning experiences in a school setting to a more individualized and needs focused learning normally provided through one-to-one and small , closed lesson formats? In my experience, and judging by what colleagues say, this certainly seems to be the case...Read More

Teacher Development

language teaching, lesson formats, private courses

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