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Nem só de música vive o homem: dicas de podcasts em inglês

13 de setembro de 2014

Olá, pessoal! Depois de uma pausa meio que forçada, estamos de volta para mais um post envolvendo, de certa forma, tecnologia. Desta vez, vou falar de podcasts. Sabem o que é um podcast? É uma espécie de programa de rádio, geralmente editado, e disponibilizado em sites, blogs e assemelhados, sobre os mais variados assuntos, que...Read More

Pronunciation, Resources, Speaking and Spoken Language, Technology, Vocabulary

ArgCast, Listening, podcast, vocabulary

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

The hazy line between lexis and grammar

11 de agosto de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

This post is a short account of two lessons I taught in 2002 which helped me to make sense of something I’d read about in the late 90s, but couldn’t get my head around. Not until then anyway. If you’ve been following me for some time, you know that I’m a big believer in experiential...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

grammar, lexical approach, lexis, teaching chunks

The importance of reading for language development – part 2

20 de julho de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

This post continues from where this one left off. How to read for language development I honestly believe that the sheer fact of being reading constantly and on a wide array of topics — books of different genres, newspaper articles, blogs, reports and so on — for information and/or pleasure is good enough and will...Read More

Career, Vocabulary

improving language, language development for teachers, reading

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

Hit or Miss

23 de junho de 2014

by cecilialemos

I enjoy playing games in the classroom. And I know my students do too, especially the young learners and teenagers (even though teachers of adult students know that many times adults really enjoy playing games too.) I’ve recently bought a game called “Hit or Miss” to use with my students. The obvious main aim of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Games, Vocabulary

classroom activity, engagement, game, vocabulary

Talking football

3 de junho de 2014

by Dominic Walters

You may or may not be aware that the football championship is just around the corner with national teams beginning to arrive, stadiums being finished and with thousands of people brushing up on their English. Football (or ‘scoccer ’) is the most popular sport in the world, played and talked about by millions of people. It...Read More

Vocabulary

championship, football, idiomatic expressions, idioms

The importance of reading for language development – part 1

19 de maio de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

The way I see it, reading vastly and variedly is the most important language-learning exercise there is. Extensive reading — which Thornbury (2006, p 191) defines as being the more leisurely reading of longer texts, primarily for pleasure, or in order to accumulate vocabulary, or simply to develop sound habits of reading — helps develop...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

language development for teachers, reading

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

Lexical Mathematics 2: The Soul Behind The Face

24 de abril de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Collocation Competence – fluency and accuracy hand in hand There is a number of reasons why a sound knowledge of collocations is desirable, especially for more advanced learners. Hill (2000) relies on collocations to explain that language consists largely of pre-fabricate chunks of lexis. Therefore, not only is the accurate and appropriate use of collocations...Read More

Vocabulary

Accuracy, colocations, fluency, lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

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