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Building automaticity: a short story

13 de janeiro de 2018

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

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

Is Your English Fully Operational? – Accurate, Fluent and Fluid Speaking

24 de agosto de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

Scarcella and Oxford (1992) mention that ‘a learner will basically need to develop competences in order to become proficient in an L2 – grammatical competence, socialinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence.’ I bet that at the some point of your teaching career you have come across that student who wants to learn only to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, fluidity, speaking, speaking skills

Send the maid – Is Pronunciation Just anoder Coggy in da Will?

24 de janeiro de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

I bet you might be trying to make sense of the phonics above. I wonder how you think this might impair one’s understanding. Of the many factors which contribute to how well a person speaks English, pronunciation seems to be really salient. Consequently, I believe that having a sound knowledge of pronunciation is important for...Read More

Pronunciation

exposure, fluency, intelligibilty, native-like, pronunciation work, speaking skills