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Language Acquisition

How much is students’ perception of their own learning accurate?

7 de março de 2015

It’s not rare to find students who are not demonstrating a high level of achievement and yet think they are doing just fine. Or, conversely, who, despite producing the required level of language for a given stage believes it to be necessary to retake all lessons again to improve more. I thought about this as...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

awareness, learning accurate

My Mind Went Blank

3 de março de 2015

by Dominic Walters

Did you happen to see the story about the leader of the Green Party in the UK? Well, she went to give a live interview on the radio last week to kick off her party’s election campaign. About two minutes into the interview, she was asked a question about her party’s housing policy. Upon which...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

anxiety, mind blank, speaking in public

Teaching pronunciation

25 de fevereiro de 2015

by Catarina Pontes

Teaching pronunciation in the English classroom is of great importance – it helps learners communicate better, convey their messages more effectively and sound more natural. Yet, this tends to be a rather marginalized area in EFL classrooms around the globe. Helping learners to sound better, to recognize different accents and varieties of English, and also...Read More

Language Acquisition

awareness, pronunciation

Teachers on holidays… are still teachers!

24 de janeiro de 2015

by cecilialemos

I’ve just had a week off, so I went off on holidays. After a whole year of teacher, training, writing, talking to students, parents, helping those who needed the extra help or a supporting word (or hug!)… I tried to fool myself, thinking I would be able to completely tune out of work by simply...Read More

Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

holidays, teaching

Learning to Learn

18 de janeiro de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

This month’s post is about different ways of learning, or learning styles, as some authors put it. It’s also about why I believe they exist even when we totally ignore their existence. It is a controversial issue for many teachers, who have mixed feelings about it. Do Learning Styles really exist? Are they just...Read More

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

ELT materials, learning, learning styles, Marjorie Rosenberg, myths, webinar

To be bilingual or not to be bilingual: that’s the question (#not)!

13 de janeiro de 2015

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos! Depois de uma ausência de alguns meses, estou de volta! Mas minha ausência tem uma boa “desculpa”: em 31 de outubro, Eduardo, meu filhinho, nasceu! Com toda a alegria que trouxe, veio também desorganização e desajustes, até que finalmente conseguíssemos “entendê-lo” e acertar nossas rotinas com as necessidades dele! Coisas de marinheiros...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

bilinguismo, ensino de língua inglesa, inglês

The Only Thing They Have to Fear is Fear Itself

23 de dezembro de 2014

by cecilialemos

Teaching adult beginner groups can be quite challenging, as most teachers (if not all) who have such groups know. Each age group we teach has its specific challenges, and in my experience, when it comes to adult beginners the main challenges are time (they usually have little time to dedicate to English studying other than...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition

adult students, beginner students, fear, Language acquisition, making mistakes

Une Tomate Rouge and How Languages Work

18 de dezembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

1. Une Tomate Rouge Less than a month ago I decided to take up French and I am already being faced with big challenges: I had assumed that languages close to your own in the language tree should not be too hard to learn, so I picked...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, language development, learning styles, skype, teaching styles

Language Acquisition: More Order and Progress

12 de dezembro de 2014

by Stephen Greene

A couple of months ago, I wrote about how there seems to be very little order in how we learn a language. Just because we ‘learn’ some aspect of a language one day doesn’t mean we will be able to use it the next. Also, we might use a language quite comfortably one day, only...Read More

Language Acquisition

First Language Acquisition, Order of acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Santa Clause or Father Christmas? Gifts or presents?

3 de dezembro de 2014

by Dominic Walters

I asked a student of mine recently whether he still believed in Father Christmas. He looked at me nonplussed before asking me who Father Christmas was. I replied that he was the big, fat man who delivered children presents at Christmas time. “Presents?”, he asked. “Gifts’, I said. To which he smiled and said, “Ah,...Read More

Language Acquisition

american english, british english, spelling differences, vocabulary

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