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Good teachers don’t stand on students’ ways

22 de outubro de 2019

This might sound a bit too harsh, but we do sometimes hinder learning. The title of this text was borrowed from a famous saying in football, made popular by the controversial former player Romario, now a politician. He was a very successful and undoubtedly talented player and worked with a large number of coaches throughout...Read More

Reflections about Education

language, learning, teaching

Bite-sized flipped classroom (1)

21 de agosto de 2019

by Victor Virginio

You are a student in a classroom full of them. You are all seated in a circle and the teacher is standing in front of you. The teacher asks a question. Silence. Ok, thinking time is beneficial, you think. One minute later, silence remains, until the teacher says ‘I won’t say a word before you...Read More

Reflections about Education

flipped classroom, learning

Ok, we can use L1, but are we doing it right?

1 de agosto de 2019

by Victor Virginio

Lately I have encountered more and more people talking about the benefits of L1 in ELT. At same time that I love it, I wonder: are we going the right way? I will not deny that I love the fact that we have started considering and enhancing the use of L1 in ELT, not only...Read More

Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

How can we test a method

21 de junho de 2019

by Victor Virginio

Recently, a colleague from work introduced me to a discussion happening on the internet about whether could really prove a method works or not, or works better than another one. This discussion was very well presented in Luiz Otavio Barros’ blog. At this point, we have to turn to empirical analysis – how it is...Read More

Reflections about Education

Classroom-based research or should I say reflexive teaching?

21 de maio de 2019

by Victor Virginio

I remember my first days as a teacher when I was afraid of every listening activity because I thought that spoken texts were too difficult for my students. But then a celestial voice told me “any listening text is possible depending on the task you assign.” That blew my mind. I also remember when I...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

knowledge, reflexive-teaching, researching

Taboo language – Is L1 such a curse?

21 de março de 2019

by Victor Virginio

A challenge teachers frequently face is reducing the amount of L1 used by their students in class. For obvious reasons, we all want our learners to take the most of our lessons. They also like to feel challenged and to leave the room (or wherever you teach them) feeling that they have spent an hour...Read More

ELT Management, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education