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Language Acquisition

Being a NNEST in Brazil back in the 80s Part 1

18 de agosto de 2016

The past is never where you think you left it.” —- Katherine Anne Porter Having lived a year in the US, I was convinced that I had become an American. I spoke American English, my clothes were mostly American, and I did not like black beans anymore. I could not help pronouncing the word Coke...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Brazil, langage teacher, myths about language, NNEST, Rajagopalan

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

Teaching with Translation: A Journey from L2 to L1 in the Classroom

19 de julho de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

Translation a skill that constitutes a real world demand, and yet, it is rather underrated in Brazil while it is broadly used in countries like Japan and China, for example. Despite its disadvantages — such as giving students the false impression that there is always a one-to-one correspondence between L1 and L2, for example, it offers...Read More

Language Acquisition

challenge, L1, L2, translation

The Big Picture of Language Learning

18 de maio de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

“Novices become acquainted with activities not only from their own and others’ attempts to define what transpires in an activity, but also from how those participating in the activity respond to them.” Elinor Ochs, in “Becoming a Speaker of A Culture.” (2002) I have just read Elinor Ochs’ article entitled ‘Becoming a Speaker of a Culture,’...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Inclusive Teaching, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Pragmatically speaking – why don’t we study and teach Pragmatics more?

5 de abril de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

A friend of mine, who is also an English teacher, was taking Pragmatics at uni and admitted she was struggling to see the point of all that theory. I wanted to reply in neon and all caps: “All the point in the world!” Ironically, I don’t think I did convince her. I say it was...Read More

Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

British vs American, communicative functions, corrective feedback, error correction, functions, intercultural competence, miscommunication, mistakes, misunderstanding, pragmatic competence, pragmatics

It’s complex, not complicated.

2 de março de 2016

by Dominic Walters

What is complexity theory and how does it accommodate up to date beliefs about how languages are acquired, and new approaches to teaching like task based learning and dogme approaches? Until recently, theories about language acquisition have been dominated by the cognitivists, such as Krashen, Long and Chomsky. The basic premise was that input would...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Language acquisition, methodology

Diary of a Bilingual Kid

13 de fevereiro de 2016

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá, a todos! Em 13 de janeiro de 2015, publiquei aqui no nosso blog o post To be bilingual or not to be bilingual: that’s the question (#not)!, sobre estar criando meu filho Eduardo, então com dois meses e meio de vida, de forma bilíngue. Tive dois excelentes comentários em meu texto, que me motivaram...Read More

Language Acquisition

bilingualism, bilinguismo, inglês

5 fenômenos que afetam sua fluência

22 de novembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

Todo estudante de língua estrangeira sonha com o tempo em que estará falando “fluentemente” o idioma escolhido. Dentre os principais mitos citados no artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, um dos mais frequentes é o de que ser fluente significa falar sem pausas. E não é pra...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

alongamentos, análise da fala, aquisição de fluência, falar fluentemente, false-starts, falsos começos, fillers, fluência, fluency, fluency-oriented, pausas, repetição

Language which comes up during the lesson

3 de outubro de 2015

by Dominic Walters

I have heard it being called ‘emerging language‘ and ‘incidental language‘. However, I prefer ‘emerging unplanned language ‘ (EUL) as ‘emerging language’ is often used in a wider language acquisition sense and ‘incidental’ can imply something of minor consequence, which it is not. If anyone has an existant word, or a better one, then please...Read More

Language Acquisition

Ser fluente é falar como um nativo. Será?

22 de setembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

No artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, apresentei algumas definições de “fluência” comumente encontradas na internet e procurei mostrar como elas são ainda bastante vagas e controversas (mesmo entre os profissionais da área de idiomas), dando ensejo aos mais diversos usos e abusos do termo pelo mercado....Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

aprendizado de idiomas, aquisição de fluência, falante não nativo, falante nativo, falar fluentemente, fluência

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