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Grammar

Working with emergent language: first steps

3 de dezembro de 2022

Raise your hand if you have ever felt a tad frustrated when a student poses a question that ends up generating discussion for 15 solid minutes. “There goes my lesson plan,” you begrudgingly accept. As you become more experienced, however, you learn to appreciate those questions and start regarding those discussions as a chance to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Learner Autonomy, Speaking and Spoken Language

To grammar or not to grammar

30 de junho de 2019

by Marcela Cintra

As the title may reveal, the language is in constant change, no one owns it and everybody does. Therefore, we can all play with it as we wish. Can we? While some of us stand as the grammar police to correct tests, written tasks, posts on Facebook or so many other things people say and...Read More

Grammar, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Trends in ELT

Language Development: A short self-study guide for teachers

28 de janeiro de 2017

by Teresa Carvalho

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” ― Ruth Beechick, An Easy Start in Arithmetic, Grades K-3 In my last post, I talked about writing. The reason why I wrote about it is because I write, and writing is my journey into the core of the English language. The...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Pronunciation, Reflections about Education, Resources, Skills, Teacher Development

language awareness, language development

2 kinds of noticing tasks

12 de agosto de 2016

by Luis Otávio Barros

1. Why is noticing even a buzzword, anyway? Noticing in language learning is perhaps ELT’s most user-friendly buzzword. To have a vague understanding of what it is, you don’t need to delve into the works of Rod Ellis, Peter Skehan or even Richard Schmidt, whose 1990 study essentially put the term on the map. Perhaps...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition

grammar, Identities, Second-language acquisition

We (still) need to talk about English

18 de janeiro de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

As I’m writing this post I’m thinking about my English skills as a non-native speaker. I’m aware of the fact that my English is far from being perfect and I can’t expect it to be flawless. Nonetheless, I consider myself a successful English learner-teacher as far as language is concerned for one simple reason: I see...Read More

Career, Grammar, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

language development, language development for teachers, online resources

If you read this article, it may help you.

3 de dezembro de 2015

by Dominic Walters

One of the pleasures of teaching private students is helping them negotiate the mindfield of school exams. I was doing so with one fourteen year old last week. Part of the language she had to revise were the first and second conditionals. Learners in my experience find these structures grammatically challenging, which they are, due...Read More

Grammar

exams, first and second conditionals, school exams

Have you ever wondered why English is the way it is?

20 de agosto de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

“So now you must choose… Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world...Read More

Grammar, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Vocabulary

england, History of English

Murphy’s Law

3 de janeiro de 2015

by Dominic Walters

I am pretty sure that anyone who has either learnt English as a student or been a teacher even for a short period of time must have come across the English Grammar in Use series by Raymond Murphy. Apparently, they are one of the best selling grammar books of all time. Go into a staff...Read More

Grammar

English Grammar in Use, grammar books

Metalinguagem: ensinar ou não ensinar? Eis a questão!

26 de novembro de 2014

by Denilso de Lima

O Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portugesa define metalinguagem como “linguagem (natural ou formalizada) que serve para descrever ou falar sobre uma outra linguagem, natural ou artificial”. De modo simples, trata-se da linguagem que usamos para falar sobre a língua(gem). Em inglês, metalinguagem é chamada de metalanguage e, do ponto de vista linguístico, é recomendável referir-se...Read More

Grammar, Teacher Development

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

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