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TeStressing Times – Test the Stress or Stress the Test

26 de junho de 2015

On announcing my groups’ final testing dates, I can vividly remember one student coining the chunk, if I may say so, ‘TeStressing Times are coming.’ Well, in terms of pronunciation one might easily say she has aced the test. Living and learning seems to be a fair motto, I say. We all know that the...Read More

Language testing & assessment

academic life, challenges, motivation, tests

Time is on our side! Or is it?

24 de maio de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

If we jump back in time we might hear Sir Mick Jagger singing: ‘Time is on my side’. Mr. Keith Richards would promptly reply: ‘Yes, it is!’. The fact of the matter is that they are pushing 70ish and still keep rocking, which gives us the impression that time is really on their side. Had...Read More

Career

time manegment

Quality – From LOS To CPD

24 de fevereiro de 2015

by Adriano Zanetti

One may often hear how expensive it can be to invest time and money in learning a foreign language. However, it is widely known that an institution is usually judged by its teachers and how qualified they are in the teaching community. Consequently, a LOS (Lesson Observation Scheme) is instrumental in providing the academic department...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

CPD, Lesson observation, Quality, Teaching Practice

Language Systems – To Grammar or Not To Grammar

24 de outubro de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

It is often said that dealing with grammar instruction in class is rather dull, let alone, demanding on both learners and teachers. The first ones might consider it as something heavy-going to take on board. The latter ones might consider it demanding on the grounds that preparation is a key element when delivering a grammar-based...Read More

Grammar

form-based, grammar instruction, grammatical competence, input/output, language system, meaning-based, noticing

Listen to learn, learn to listen

25 de agosto de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

I was delivering this session on Developing Listening skills to a Pre-service course at CISJDR and got bewildered, not to mention shocked, at what one trainee brought up in a group discussion. She categorically affirmed that she is not allowed to work on listening skills in her school as it may disrupt the class and...Read More

Skills

aural impact, intensive and extensive listening, listening subskills, post-listening, potential listening problems, pre-listening, skills integration, while-listening

Is Voz do Brasil what you hear or listen to?

24 de julho de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Voz do Brasil, former Hora do Brasil, is the oldest radio programme in the country whose political content broadcast is mandatory to all radio stations. It is regularly aired at 19:00 sharp, Brasilia time. You may wonder what is with that and how it is connected to learning. In fact, this is closely related to...Read More

Skills

aural impact, hearing x listening, intensive and extensive listening, listening proficiency, listening strategies, listening subskills

Reading: Building A Skilful Habit

24 de junho de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Is reading a skill in isolation? No language skill, either receptive or productive, should be dealt with in isolation in class. Reading texts hold an awful lot of language, information, and topics among other things that can lead to speaking and writing. Thereby, it would not be wise to engage students in a reading task...Read More

Skills

accuracy-oriented, fluency-oriented, intensive and extensive reading, reading dificulties, skill-based and text-based lessons, skills integration, top-down and bottom-up processes

Reading: A Skill or Habit

24 de maio de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

By definition reading is the action of a person who looks at and understands the meaning of written or printed words or symbols. But there is much more to that than meet the eyes. Nuttall (1996:2) believes that not only does reading comprise decoding, deciphering and identifying words, but it is above all an opportunity...Read More

Skills

intensive and extensive reading, reading competence and proficiency, reading sub-skills, skills integration

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

Lexical Mathematics 1: Flesh + Bones = Added Bonus

24 de março de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

It is widely known that some approaches to teaching in the past consciously placed vocabulary as a secondary feature of language. In other words, one was made to think of grammar as the bones of the language whilst vocabulary as the flesh to be added. However, Harmer (1997) has a point when he states that...Read More

Vocabulary

collocations, fluency and accurary., lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

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