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Language Acquisition

Memory is the residue of thought, but what does that mean for teachers?

14 de novembro de 2018

If learning is personalized and engaging, it is likely to stick. If your students have fun during your classes, that’s more likely to bring about emotions that should aid the process of learning. Also, learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum; it is built upon previous knowledge. We also know how powerful stories are when it...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Cognitive sciences, learning, Memory, Practices, Reflecting, teaching, Thought

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

People are still struggling with the role of Grammar in bilingual education…

27 de setembro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

It is amazing how difficult it is for us to let go of old habits, old beliefs, traditional ways of doing things. That is not different with teachers… although one might expect it to be. Recent and not so recent studies about language acquisiton have pointed out the importance of acquiring a language in a...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

bilingual-education, grammar, language awareness

The Translanguaging Pedagogy: Friend or Foe?

6 de setembro de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Translanguaging is a term that was first coined in 1994 as trawsieithu (translanguaging in Welsh) by Welsh researcher Cen Williams in order to refer to the processes in which English and Welsh were used for different reasons and purposes in the same class. For example, students would read or listen to content in English and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

bilingualism, CLIL, codeswitching, Essential Questions, translanguage, translanguaging

Enhancing Lexical Strategies – Learning By Heart or Memory Habit Formation?

24 de maio de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

It goes without saying that vocabulary is one aspect language acquisition that plays an important role when learning one mother’s tongue, let alone a foreign language. I have often had learners saying that they can fairly get by grammatical structures and the real factor holding them back is how to put words within this lexical...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Vocabulary

Classroom experiences, intelligibility, Language acquisition, motivation, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

The art of process writing assessment

4 de maio de 2018

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

The writing process involves, at least, four different steps: analysing the task question, brainstorming, drafting, proofreading and finally handing it to the teacher so that the work can be checked. This process is also known as a ”recursive” process because when you are proofreading it is almost certain that you might have to return to...Read More

Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Lesson Ideas

brainstorming, writing-assessment, writing-process

Power To The Music

24 de fevereiro de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

Power To The Music It is funny how people (students) may instantly think of CCR’s ‘Have you ever seen the rain?’ when you start off a conversation with the chunk ‘Have you ever Blahed?’. Have you ever (seen the rain? – lol) stopped and thought how powerful music can be in terms of learning opportunities?...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

The Challenge of embracing Challenges – part 2

15 de fevereiro de 2018

by Lenora Haranaka

The English of the teacher It had been 8 years since I last visited London… and this last January I had the unforgettable experience of spending 2 weeks in London, studying at Bell School (Thank You, CISP!). During our stay, part of the programme was to read the paper on a regular basis and discuss...Read More

Language Acquisition, Resources

challenge, the-english-of-the-teacher

Building automaticity: a short story

13 de janeiro de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

Last January 3rd, my husband and I were driving back home from the beautiful state of Minas Gerais. Days before, during our stay in the effervescent Belo Horizonte, the capital city, we had met a very interesting twenty-something Japanese young man in the hostel. His name is Goro and he’d been living in Brazil for...Read More

Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

automaticity, speaking skills, spoken language

The ups and downs of teaching beginner young teens

20 de outubro de 2017

by Teresa Carvalho

So, it’s your first class with a group of beginner 12-ish year-olds. You just leaf through the course book and teacher’s guide because all the class is about is the verb to be and adjectives. You know the drill: a couple pages filled with yes-no questions and perhaps a list of cities and countries that...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Language Acquisition

beginner-classes, child-development, Games, milestones, young-teens

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