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Using coaching-based questions to foster engagement in the classroom

8 de maio de 2019

In a coaching process, nothing is more effective and powerful than a coaching dialogue, profitable conversations prompted by the coach that can truly impact the coachee’s results. These compelling chats are usually guided by questions based on a coaching model such as GROW (Goal, Reality, Options and Will), for example: Goal: What is your goal?...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education

adult students, coaching, coaching-dialogues, coaching-in-elt, grow-coaching-model, reflection

Portrait of a Student: Distracted but brilliant

12 de julho de 2016

by Stephen Greene

Part one in an occasional series that describes some of the students I have had the pleasure (or misfortune) of working with and how I learnt to deal with them. The Student There is an episode of The Simpsons called ‘Bart Gets an F’ which should be compulsory viewing for all teachers. Bart is in trouble...Read More

Reflections about Education

adult students, Student. student type

The Only Thing They Have to Fear is Fear Itself

23 de dezembro de 2014

by cecilialemos

Teaching adult beginner groups can be quite challenging, as most teachers (if not all) who have such groups know. Each age group we teach has its specific challenges, and in my experience, when it comes to adult beginners the main challenges are time (they usually have little time to dedicate to English studying other than...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition

adult students, beginner students, fear, Language acquisition, making mistakes

Intelligi….what?

23 de abril de 2014

by cecilialemos

For quite some time now, I have been trying to lower my adult students’ affective filters about their pronunciation difficulties. These affective filters (proposed by Stephen Krashen) “(…) acts to control the amount and quality of input learners receive.” (Thornbury, 2006 p.8). Affective filters can include motivation, self-confidence and anxiety. Anyone who has taught or...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Teacher Development

adult students, communication, ELF, intelligibility, pronunciation