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Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition: Order and Progress

12 de agosto de 2014

I am sure there is nobody reading this post who would say the following to a student: “We did the past simple last month and you used it properly, why are you having problems with it now?” The reason we wouldn’t say this is because we are all trained, professional educators who know that learning...Read More

Language Acquisition

The hazy line between lexis and grammar

11 de agosto de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

This post is a short account of two lessons I taught in 2002 which helped me to make sense of something I’d read about in the late 90s, but couldn’t get my head around. Not until then anyway. If you’ve been following me for some time, you know that I’m a big believer in experiential...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

grammar, lexical approach, lexis, teaching chunks

Trying too hard

5 de agosto de 2014

by Dominic Walters

Did anyone read a recent article in Time magazine entitled ‘Want to Learn a Language? Don’t Try So Hard’? (Abrams; 2014) It outlined a study undertaken at MIT University which basically found that whereas young people up until the age of puberty use procedural memory to learn a language, adults will use a different type...Read More

Language Acquisition

adult learners, declarative memory, procedural memory, younger learners

What is ‘meaningful learning’?

31 de julho de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! Many years ago I took a class in educational psychology and came across this quote from the cognitive psychologist, David Ausubel: “If I had to reduce all of cognitive psychology to one principle it would be this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and...Read More

Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

classroom activity, Language acquisition, teacher development, teaching

From Teacher back to Learner

18 de julho de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

At first I had set out to write about my professional journey as a NNEST in the 1980s, so I thought it would be nice to reflect on some of the first course books I used in my first years as a teacher. That was when I decided to ask for some help from the...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development

fluency, Jeremy Harmer, language learning, NNESTs

Language Acquisition: The Blue and White Teddy Bear

12 de julho de 2014

by Stephen Greene

Picture the scene: A two-year-old boy with his dad having a conversation about a favourite teddy bear (not unlike the one in the photo). CHILD: Look daddy, this old teddy bear is pink. DAD: No, son, it’s blue and white. For a two-year-old this level of language would be pretty amazing,yet the father has chosen...Read More

Language Acquisition

error correction, First Language Acquisition, Second-language acquisition

The University of Edinburgh has just proven that I was right!

17 de junho de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Good news for teachers (and even better news for students) of foreign languages: a new longitudinal research, whose results were recently published in a journal of the American Neurological Association, reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition and may delay the onset of dementia in older adults. The participants, who live in the...Read More

Language Acquisition

Adult education, brain, language learning

Language Acquisition: Linguistic Landscapes

12 de junho de 2014

by Stephen Greene

When my son was about 18 months old I took him to a local shopping centre here in Curitiba. I don’t normally do this because I hate shopping centres with a passion, but it was raining and we were both going stir crazy from being in the house for too long. At one point my...Read More

Language Acquisition

Learning outside the classroom, Linguistic landscape, Mapping Urban Linguistic Landscape

Feel vs. know

11 de junho de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

For the past six months I’ve been teaching a close friend of mine once a week, on a one-to-one basis. He’s what most people would refer to as an elementary learner, but in many important ways he’s anything but your typical A2. And that’s partly because he’s highly intuitive. The more I teach him, the...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition

implicit knowledge, linguistic intuition

A lesson for all seasons

6 de junho de 2014

by Ceri Jones

This lesson plan is one for any time, any where, any students… 1 Show the four images below. Ask your students to choose one and think (not talk) about why that particular image appeals to them. Allow them plenty of thinking time. 2 Tell them about the picture you choose, but don’t say...Read More

Language Acquisition

Language acquisition, sensations, speaking

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