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“É melhor fazer aula com um falante nativo?”

5 de janeiro de 2021

“É melhor fazer aula com um falante nativo?” — pergunta o leigo. E hoje é com ele que vou falar. Você com certeza já deve ter visto cursos de inglês que anunciam aulas com professores nativos. Será esse de fato um diferencial? Vamos pensar aqui: se fosse o contrário e você fosse dar aula de português para...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

Native speaker fallacy, native speakerism, native teachers, professor nativo

Jazzing it up: Lessons from Miles Davis for our professional development

2 de dezembro de 2020

by Natália Guerreiro

As you will probably agree, inspiration comes from the most unusual places. Just now, I felt so moved by a Netflix documentary about the jazz genius Miles Davis that I had to come here and write about the lessons I believe his career may bring to our professional development as teachers. “The Musings of...Read More

#StaySafe, Inclusive Teaching, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

art, career, challenges, CPD, creativity, jazz, Music, professional development, reflection, teacher development

A blast from the past: how I learned and failed to learn English through songs

5 de novembro de 2019

by Natália Guerreiro

“You’ve got that look again, the one I hoped I had when I was a lad…” The familiar tune and the words I had once memorized blasted out of my phone — quite unexpectedly, I might add. I was listening to a random Spotify playlist, and out came Simply Red’s 1992 major hit “For Your...Read More

Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy

anecdote, autonomy, language learning strategies, learner autonomy, learner strategies, learning strategies, Music, SLA, songs, strategies

The day Glenn Greenwald came up in a conversation that was not about politics — or was it?

5 de agosto de 2019

by Natália Guerreiro

“What do you think of Glenn Greenwald’s Portuguese?” That question came out of the blue to me, but there I was, chatting to an air traffic controller before we started his English proficiency interview about a third person’s Portuguese language proficiency. I thought of a video I saw after the first Vaza Jato news: “Well,...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

assessment, CEFR, criteria, language proficiency, needs analysis, reflections about education

From novice to expert: what teacher development frameworks can teach us

5 de junho de 2019

by Natália Guerreiro

Teaching a language, especially when you’re a novice, can be really daunting. In fact, the word “daunting” immediately brings to mind a Duck commercial that was constantly on when I studied in Australia. The voice-over would go, “Cleaning your bathroom can seem like a daunting task”, and the small bathroom would grow huge with the...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

continuing professional development, CPD, expert teachers, professional development, teacher development

Frankly, dear, what do you think of English as a lingua franca?

5 de dezembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

When professionals I know and admire seem to have something against English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), I try to understand why. From their follow-up replies, I get the impression they see ELF as “narrowing the curriculum” and their own position as one of “demanding high” and “catering for students’ needs in the real world.”...Read More

Reflections about Education

ELF, English as a Lingua Franca

What does ‘good English’ even mean?

5 de novembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

“Your English is so beautiful.” – I sometimes hear, and I promise you I have a point in writing this, which is not that I’m a Leo (although I am). In fact, I’ve always been a bit reticent about those compliments about my English language proficiency, especially when they come from laypeople. I mean, we...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, assessment criteria, communicative competence, fluency, indigenous assessment criteria, research

My Moving Maker Moment

5 de outubro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

How often do you revisit and reexamine your beliefs about teaching and learning and about yourself as a teacher? It is easy to find fault in other people’s beliefs or practices: “So and So still operate with the concept of X. Don’t they know research shows no evidence it works?”; “How can anyone still use...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

conferences, CPD, events, maker, maker movement, PBL, PD, professional development

Sell your service, not your soul

5 de setembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

Many teachers are becoming their own bosses nowadays, to the point that the word “teacherpreneur” has become a thing (hopefully a fad, as I can’t pronounce that word for the life of me). That of course adds fuel to the debate on whether teachers should dab at Sales & Marketing – or rather how. I’m...Read More

Career

entrepreneurship, ethics, marketing, sales, teacherpreneur

Is there a genre for this text?

5 de julho de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

There’s a woman with a standing microphone next to a wooden stool on a stage. She speaks for about an hour and the paying audience laughs every now and then. What is this? It’s a stand-up comedy. Or maybe it isn’t. Oftentimes, when we are working on skills in a language class, we treat genres...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

critical thinking, discourse analysis, genre, genre theory

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