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Making it Visible: Shedding Light on What Happens Beyond the Book

29 de agosto de 2023

Multiple choice: Your kid came home singing in English and you: a) record a video and share it in the family group chat b) congratulate their English teacher c) believe the school’s bilingual program is a success d) try to find the song in the coursebook A school is a place filled with stimuli,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition

education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

22 de dezembro de 2022

by Ana Carolina Calil

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Gene Autry and The Pinafores You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say...Read More

Bilingual Education, Inclusive Teaching, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Letramento em avaliação de línguas – como esse conhecimento pode impactar minha prática?

26 de outubro de 2020

by Antonieta Megale

É fato que estamos sempre avaliando nossas ações e as atitudes que estão ao nosso redor em nosso dia a dia. Isso pode acontecer em uma conversa com uma amiga, na fila do supermercado, ao nos depararmos com a fatura do cartão de crédito ao final do mês e mesmo ao longo da leitura de...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment

aprendizagem, assessment-literacy, avaliação, avaliação-de-línguas, letramento

The Importance of Increasing Students’ Q.A.R. – Questions and Answers Repertoire

5 de dezembro de 2019

by Adriano Zanetti

Once in Paris, I had a friend teaching me the following phrase in case I needed to ask for information: Bonjour! Je suis désolé! Où je trouve les toilettes, s’il vous plaît? Apparently, my question was well asked as I was ‘gunnned down’ by the fastest French speech I have ever heard. It is obvious...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

knowledge, language learning

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

Jaboticabas and Figs

13 de maio de 2019

by Ana Carolina Calil

Unit 3: Food. In the first exercise, the coursebook brings a set of pictures, each of them showing different food separated in groups. The image labeled with the letter “B” depicts bacon, a box of cereal, two doughnuts, a waffle, some pancakes, eggs, and a glass of orange juice. The instructions tell students to check...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Vocabulary

brazilian culture, communication, culture, neutralized culture

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

The Teenage Brain: How It Affects the Learning Process

16 de março de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

As a teacher, I have often resorted to different methodologies and activities to make students more interested in my class. However, lately I have been curious about the learning processes of a language and I have been eager to understand in depth how especially teenagers go through such processes. Consequently, the following question has popped...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition

education, Language acquisition, learning, Second-language acquisition, teaching, teaching teenagers, teenagers

Dealing With Parents’ High Levels of Expectations

16 de fevereiro de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who has a kid that goes to a language school to study English. As this acquaintance knows I am an English teacher, she started opening up to me about her feelings towards her child’s studies and she stated that she “did not feel like her daughter...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, challenges, critical thinking, education, Language acquisition, learning, reflection, Second-language acquisition

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