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

24 de agosto de 2017

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

I Am Prepared To Say I Am Lucky That Way!

24 de abril de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

In this day and age getting a job, let alone a position which suits you best, has become a scarce commodity. More and more professionals are seeking jobs that meet their needs. However, not many are actually prepared to meet the market needs. This is a harsh reality and it has obviously hit our ELT...Read More

Classroom Management, Skills, Teacher Development

classroom management, development, reading skills

Write Right, Right? Write, It Is All About CPD

24 de março de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

It might ‘cost you dear’! That is what we generally hear when people talk about investing time and money in learning a foreign language. By the same token, professional teachers are usually judged by how qualified they are in the teaching community and investing time and money on CPD seminars seems pretty much the way...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Lesson Ideas, Skills, Teacher Development

CPD, Process Writing, writing

Picturing Through Reading – A Thousand Words And A Million Pictures

24 de fevereiro de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. In other pictures, I mean, in other words, a picture might provide us with a thousand words which might eventually give free reign to your imagination. I am not saying that is all bad, however, for some this may be too little and,...Read More

Teacher Development

development, professional development, teacher

From RLE To VLE – The Missing Extension?

24 de julho de 2016

by Adriano Zanetti

It goes without saying that we live in a world which is bombarded by information. I am not saying that is all bad, however, for some this may be too much, too soon and too frightening. This fast-moving evolution of information technology has brought about a new sort of ‘society’ which seeks for a full...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

action plan, learner training, motivation, RLE, State School, VLE

Walking An Extra Mile – Why Should I Want to Do It Alone?

25 de abril de 2016

by Adriano Zanetti

Having embarked on the teaching of English in the public sector, little did I know how many hours would take my students to walk an extra mile! You must be thinking that a mile is a mile. Indeed, yet not many students have the knack for measuring it properly. Forgive me my fellow mathematicians but...Read More

Reflections about Education

Alphabet Generation – From Hi-Fi to Wi-Fi

24 de janeiro de 2016

by Adriano Zanetti

I have recently read an article talking about the teacher of the future and that got me thinking whether I was either connected to past, present or future. Some years ago I and Lidia Vanessa (a fellow teacher and friend of mine) did a presentation at an ABCI conference which started with a provocative question:...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education

computer X teachers, digital education, technology

I Want An Alien For Christmas! An Alien English Speaker!

24 de novembro de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

I have recently embarked on a little adventure of leaving my language-centre-teaching comfort zone and teaching regular schools in the State Public School System. Little did I know how much ground one still needs to cover when facing such challenge. Especially, when you hear the utterances that give this text its very title. I have...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Locked and Loaded But Out Of Focus

24 de agosto de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

How come you can’t get your students to concentrate? That seems to be a rhetorical yet plausible question until it happens to you. I am not sure about you but I have certainly tasted this sensation in my teaching environment, and for the record, that is not a pleasant one. I have been around for...Read More

Classroom Management

Cutting a long story short

31 de julho de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

How many times have you heard, said, read or written the chunk – ‘So, to sum up,…! While on holidays gazing at the sea, sitting on the beach every day I caught myself ‘saying’ that when I was playing with my kids on the sand. Tragically or not, one student came to mind. Verbose as...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

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