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Language Acquisition

Why don’t they get it?

21 de novembro de 2014

It’s a given that we live in an era in which students have the chance to be exposed to the target language much more frequently than people from past generations did. Smartphones are, at least in Brazil, becoming an essential item, and there are already people who would rather forget their wallet at home than...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

attention, error correction, Language Exposure

Language Acquisition: Communication Strategies

12 de novembro de 2014

by Stephen Greene

It is a source of pride when a child takes after his or her parents. The little boy who wants to be a teacher like his mother, or the little girl who develops a laugh just like her father. Of course, it can also work the other way as well, so the little boy can...Read More

Language Acquisition

Communication strategies, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Teaching Vocabulary: Using Research Findings to Inform Teaching

31 de outubro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

In this post, I’d like to report on some fascinating research I had the pleasure of seeing presented at the recent MEXTESOL conference in Puebla, Mexico. What particularly interested me was the connection to the topic of meaningful learning that I have been talking about on this blog as well as the direct application of...Read More

Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

research-based teaching, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

Teachers and Grammar

21 de outubro de 2014

by Henrick Oprea

“Over the years, language teachers have alternated between favoring teaching approaches that focus primarily on language use and those that focus on language forms or analysis. The alternation has been due to a fundamental disagreement concerning whether one learns to communicate in a second language by communicating in that language (such as in an immersion...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

grammar, teacher development, teaching, teaching grammar

Magic

21 de outubro de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

The other day I was visiting a writer friend of mine and she said she wanted to write a children’s story. A story in which the reader can extrapolate the meaning and come out better for it. My very eloquent friend started to tell me her story ideas based on interviews she had conducted in...Read More

Language Acquisition

challenges, characters, stories

Reading Made Easy for Learners

19 de outubro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

As a teenager, I read anything I could lay my hands on; that included all sorts of literature: good and bad. It didn’t matter as long as it was an interesting story ( from a young girl’s perspective, I might say). As a young English language learner, I was lucky to study at an English...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Resources, Vocabulary

library, motivation, reading, reading tasks

Revisiting ELT Mantras #8: 4 types of phrasal verbs

14 de outubro de 2014

by Damian Willians

As a Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST) who didn’t learn any English grammar at school, it wasn’t until I started training as a teacher and then teaching that I really started to get to grips with the English grammatical – and later lexical – system. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been a point where...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, lexis, multi word verbs, phrasal verbs

Revisiting ELT Mantras #7: ‘Real-world’ activitities

14 de setembro de 2014

by Damian Willians

Humans (like all intelligent hunters) seem innately disposed to notice things which move rather than things which stand still. Cook, 2000 Don’t move a muscle. by Chris Isherwood CC-BY-2.0 It is often argued that the English language class should try to emulate the ‘real world’ as much as possible. Tasks and activities should reflect what...Read More

Games, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

EFL, elt, elt mantras, esl, Language Play, td

The Olympic Games are coming!

8 de setembro de 2014

by Ana Beatriz Medeiros de Sousa

The 9th grade students at Colégio A. Liessin recently had a lesson to revise parts of the body. Students were familiar with most of the words as they start learning them in kindergarten through the famous song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. Our challenge was to find a way to make students practise vocabulary already...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas

olympic games, presentation, sports, vocabulary

Meaningful learning in action: Using learners’ knowledge of L1

1 de setembro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello! In my previous post we looked at the concept of ‘meaningful learning’, the idea of taking what learners already know and using it to help them to learn more. In this post, I want to start looking at how to do this in the classroom. Using learners’ knowledge of L1. This clearly cuts into...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

meaningful learning, teacher development, use of L1

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