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Trapped in the dark web of technology

19 de março de 2019

When I was teaching teenagers, I frequently discussed online safety. Cyberbullying, phishing scams and the typical 419 Nigerian prince scam were among our class topics and we would laugh hard at the absurd grammar errors in the spam email letters. However, I have recently learned that the gross grammar errors and the far-fetched stories featured...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Resources, Technology

online predators, sharing content, social media

Four never-to-be-forgotten principles of adult learning

21 de novembro de 2018

by Júlio Vieitas

When teaching private classes, one may inevitably have to teach adults. The method in which adults learn, called andragogy, is a lot less talked about when compared to pedagogy, the way children learn. Not surprisingly, the word pedagogy rings many bells whilst andragogy is an unknown term by many. Teachers focused on adult learning would...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Teacher Development

Andragogy, Julio Vieitas, teaching adults

21st Century Skills for Teachers

15 de outubro de 2018

by Lenora Haranaka

When we ask learners what they like most about school, their usual response is ‘Nothing’, ‘My friends’, ‘Going home’, and few of them come up with a teacher or a subject that they actually enjoy. One of the possible reasons why learners are disengaged from their schooling is because they see no real purpose in...Read More

Classroom Experiences, ELT Management, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Technology, Trends in ELT

21st century skills, teacher development

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

Some lessons could not have been planned

14 de maio de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

I plan all the lessons I teach, but I don’t teach all the lessons I plan. The initial idea for this one was not mine; I found it online. I was looking for different ways to review past modals of speculation for an FCE prep group. Having a group filled with teenagers, ages ranging from...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría

teaching-career, teaching-english

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

The Pre-Teaching Dilemma

27 de fevereiro de 2018

by Isabela Villas Boas

A very controversial issue that I always come across in discussions related to English-language-teaching is whether pre-teaching is recommendable. Most discussions I’ve seen revolve around the pre-teaching of vocabulary before a reading or listening. On the one hand, pre-teaching of key vocabulary allows students to tackle the task more easily and reduces their anxiety. On...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Teacher Development

discovery, inductive teaching, methodology, pre-teaching

Assessment in CLIL and bilingual education: more than just language

27 de janeiro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

EFL teachers that change into a bilingual education environment, often tend to forget that they are not teaching language as the primary goal anymore and that has dramatic implications. The acronym CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning – implies that there is much more to it than just language teaching. But what is there...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

assessment, bilingual-education, CLIL

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

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