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The ever-changing nature of ELT in Brazil: How teaching practices reflect glocal changes – Part 2

20 de dezembro de 2017

Published on November 20th, the first part of this post tries to briefly describe the trends of ELT in Brazil from the early 90’s to the late 2000’s. In it, I also included the themes and topics of some of the plenary sessions in international conferences and the names of the speakers who delivered them. ...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, conferences, EFL, elt, professional development, teacher development

The ever-changing nature of ELT in Brazil: How teaching practices reflect glocal changes

20 de novembro de 2017

by Edmilson Chagas

PART 1: from the early 90’s to the early 2010’s What you are about to read is by no means to be regarded as an accurate description of ELT practices in Brazil throughout the last 3 decades. Rather, what I attempt to describe below is simply my very own perception of how ELT has throughout...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Resources, Teacher Development

Classroom experiences, conferences, education, elt, language development for teachers, teacher development

The difficult teenager. Really?

20 de setembro de 2017

by Edmilson Chagas

This is the 3rd and final part of my two previous posts entitled “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. In a nutshell, while Part I describes how I managed to establish and sustain rapport with a group of teenagers – whom I hadn’t taught for years on end – Part II is an account of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education

adolescents, decision-making process, teaching teenagers

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” * – Part II

19 de agosto de 2017

by Edmilson Chagas

Below is a follow-up to one my post entitled Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Part I”, which went online precisely on March 3, 2016. In it, I attempted to describe how terrified I was by the prospect of having to teach a group of kids exiting childhood and stepping into the much dreaded adolescence, at...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”* – Part I

20 de março de 2016

by Edmilson Chagas

Or “When Pre-Teens First Meet the Dreaded Older Male Teacher” Based on a true story. When I thought about writing this post, thinking back to the time when I first started teaching was unavoidable. I was quite young, in my early 20’s, when I was asked to teach some groups of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

disruptive behavior, pre-teens, rapport, setting ground rules, teaching teenagers

Giving Novice Teachers Negative Feedback After Teaching Practice Sessions – Part II

20 de janeiro de 2016

by Edmilson Chagas

It is over four months today since I last posted an article on the blog. 2015 was not particularly what I’d call a smooth year due to a lot of reasons; however, since it is important to focus on the gains rather than the losses, despite the bumps along last year’s path, it’s time to roll up...Read More

Teacher Development

feedback, negative feedback, professional development, teacher training

The No-Easy Task of Giving Novice Teachers Negative Feedback

19 de setembro de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Today’s post is about giving negative feedback during pre-service teacher training courses for novice teachers. I am quite sure that a very large number of this blog’s writers – if not all of us – have, at one point or another, been involved with the difficult and highly demanding job of training teachers. Not only...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Teacher Development

Lesson observation, negative feedback, reflection, teacher training

Teaching English One on One to 40+ year-old Adults – Some Insights

20 de agosto de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

By no means is this post intended to teach techniques or activities to teachers working with older students on a one-on-one basis. As suggested in the title, I have written this article with the sole purpose of sharing some insights and reflections I have gathered from over eight years’ experience teaching this target group of...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

English, older students

– “Seminars and conferences? No, thanks. Been there, done that, took a selfie. I’ve seen it all.”

20 de julho de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

If, like me, you have been in the field of TEFL for what I choose to call a substantial amount of time, you have probably (over)heard teachers, or even work colleagues say, “I’ve participated in so many seminars and conferences that I really don’t see the point of keeping attending them anymore. I’ve seen it...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

professional development, teacher development

Getting the Music of English Right

20 de junho de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Modeling language is, among a number of other teaching techniques, one of the first things the novice teacher needs to put a lot of effort and energy into in order to have a hand on, to say the least. In most pre-service teacher training courses I have taught several times at different institutions along many...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation, Teacher Development

falling, intonation, pitch, pronunciation, rising, rythm, stress

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