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Reflections about Education

Game On – Need For Speed or Speed Racer?

5 de outubro de 2017
by Adriano Zanetti
By definition reading is the action of a person who looks at and understands the meaning of written or printed words or symbols. But there is much more to that than meet the eyes. Nuttall (1996:2) believes that not only does reading comprise decoding, deciphering and identifying words, but it is above all an opportunity...Read More
Reflections about Education, Skills
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“Reading” is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything

4 de outubro de 2017
by Beatriz Solino de Francisco
David Crystal once said that the biggest challenge for teachers is “without a doubt to keep pace with the language change”. And I could not agree more! Now, my question is. How to do it? How to keep pace with one of the most complex aspects of human behaviour? Taking into consideration that many countries, states,...Read More
Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education

Authorship in teaching and learning

30 de setembro de 2017
by Marcela Cintra
Discussing creativity in English language teaching and learning has definitely contributed to many of the changes we have already observed in our field – both in the classroom and in teacher education. However, some teaching contexts are definitely dependent on more controlled approaches – sometimes because of teachers’ beliefs, sometimes because of school programmes, parents’ influence....Read More
Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education
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One Parent, One Language – and the confirmation of the theories – Part One

27 de setembro de 2017
by Carlos Henrique Trindade
Almost two years ago I decided to take on an endeavour that would confirm to me some of the most important theories about bilingualism and bilingual education. My baby boy, Murilo, was a little over one year old then, and I decided to grow him up bilingual. I read many articles about it, about the...Read More
Reflections about Education
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Active participation encouraged – on organizing events

26 de setembro de 2017
by Taylor Veigga
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending an event at the Braz-Tesol BH Chapter, “The 5 Cs in the 21st Century”. Flawlessly organized by Bia Hedegaard and her amazing team, this was the first event I went to after being involved in the organization of “BrELT on The Road”. One of the plenaries featured the...Read More
Career, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development
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The difficult teenager. Really?

20 de setembro de 2017
by Edmilson Chagas
This is the 3rd and final part of my two previous posts entitled “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. In a nutshell, while Part I describes how I managed to establish and sustain rapport with a group of teenagers – whom I hadn’t taught for years on end – Part II is an account of...Read More
Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education
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Exploratory Practice: Working for Understanding

18 de setembro de 2017
by Teresa Carvalho
Exploratory Practice: “It is an indefinitely sustainable way for classroom language teachers and learners, while getting on with their learning and teaching, to develop their own understandings of life in the language classroom. It is essentially a way for teachers and learners to work together to understand aspects of their classroom practice that puzzle them,...Read More
Classroom Experiences, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development
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