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Second-language acquisition

Making it Visible: Shedding Light on What Happens Beyond the Book

29 de agosto de 2023

Multiple choice: Your kid came home singing in English and you: a) record a video and share it in the family group chat b) congratulate their English teacher c) believe the school’s bilingual program is a success d) try to find the song in the coursebook A school is a place filled with stimuli,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition

education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

CLIL is the New Black

13 de março de 2020

by Ana Carolina Calil

Sunny afternoon in the capital of Brazil, a group of teachers awaits for the presentation of the new coursebooks. Curious eyes on the presenters, colorful boxes on the shelves and the expectation to end the day with grids and tables filled with content that would translate into a year’s worth of teaching. To their surprise,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

CLIL, future_trends_in_education, Language acquisition, methods, reflection, Second-language acquisition

The Teenage Brain: How It Affects the Learning Process

16 de março de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

As a teacher, I have often resorted to different methodologies and activities to make students more interested in my class. However, lately I have been curious about the learning processes of a language and I have been eager to understand in depth how especially teenagers go through such processes. Consequently, the following question has popped...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition

education, Language acquisition, learning, Second-language acquisition, teaching, teaching teenagers, teenagers

Dealing With Parents’ High Levels of Expectations

16 de fevereiro de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who has a kid that goes to a language school to study English. As this acquaintance knows I am an English teacher, she started opening up to me about her feelings towards her child’s studies and she stated that she “did not feel like her daughter...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, challenges, critical thinking, education, Language acquisition, learning, reflection, Second-language acquisition

Enhancing Lexical Strategies – Learning By Heart or Memory Habit Formation?

24 de maio de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

It goes without saying that vocabulary is one aspect language acquisition that plays an important role when learning one mother’s tongue, let alone a foreign language. I have often had learners saying that they can fairly get by grammatical structures and the real factor holding them back is how to put words within this lexical...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Vocabulary

Classroom experiences, intelligibility, Language acquisition, motivation, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

English made in Brazil

6 de fevereiro de 2017

by Ricardo Barros

Two things have happened recently that served as inspiration for this post. One of them is the (erroneous) belief that one can only learn a language if his/her teacher is a native speaker. Who would figure this is still a debate in 2017. The other is the #accentpride that aims at fighting the prejudice that only...Read More

Career, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, career, CELTA, challenges, elt mantras, Second-language acquisition, te

Para ser fluente é preciso pensar no idioma?

22 de novembro de 2016

by Marcelo de Cristo

Pensar é algo natural para todos nós. Segundo a Wikipedia, é uma faculdade do nosso sistema mental através da qual modelamos o mundo para nele podermos transitar e agir segundo a nossa vontade. Pensar vem de fábrica, ou seja, é grátis. Por esse motivo, não se aprende a pensar. Se é assim, por quê então...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, esl, fluency, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition, Young learners

2 kinds of noticing tasks

12 de agosto de 2016

by Luis Otávio Barros

1. Why is noticing even a buzzword, anyway? Noticing in language learning is perhaps ELT’s most user-friendly buzzword. To have a vague understanding of what it is, you don’t need to delve into the works of Rod Ellis, Peter Skehan or even Richard Schmidt, whose 1990 study essentially put the term on the map. Perhaps...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition

grammar, Identities, Second-language acquisition

Language Acquisition: More Order and Progress

12 de dezembro de 2014

by Stephen Greene

A couple of months ago, I wrote about how there seems to be very little order in how we learn a language. Just because we ‘learn’ some aspect of a language one day doesn’t mean we will be able to use it the next. Also, we might use a language quite comfortably one day, only...Read More

Language Acquisition

First Language Acquisition, Order of acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Language Acquisition: Communication Strategies

12 de novembro de 2014

by Stephen Greene

It is a source of pride when a child takes after his or her parents. The little boy who wants to be a teacher like his mother, or the little girl who develops a laugh just like her father. Of course, it can also work the other way as well, so the little boy can...Read More

Language Acquisition

Communication strategies, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

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