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Chat GPT: The death of writing lessons as we know them?

3 de fevereiro de 2023

The fact that Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has the potential to revolutionise education is neither theoretical nor futuristic at this point. Every year a new software is launched with the promise to shake our classroom practice to its foundation. In the last few months, the buzz has revolved around OpenAI’s latest version of the text-writing bot...Read More

Educational Technology, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Skills

artificial_intelligence, chat_gpt, writing, writing_skills

No regrets, just lessons learned!

4 de dezembro de 2022

by Fabiana Muliterno

2022! Phew, what a ride! If I start looking back at how everything went down, from January to this very moment, I had several reasons to cry, from bursts of anxiety to significant losses around me. But I have so much to celebrate, so much to smile about. So here at this text, I would...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

Storytelling in ESL: As simple as it gets

5 de novembro de 2022

by Teresa Carvalho

How frequently do you interrupt your students’ stories in L1 because you believe this might disrupt the class flow and prevent them from attempting to communicate in English? You’re not alone and rest assured it’s not your fault. This often happens because our teaching practice may be rooted in the belief that language learning entails...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Skills

teachers’ beliefs

STUDENT AGENCY: Raising Student Engagement Online

12 de novembro de 2021

by Richmond

BY DONNA FIELDS We’re looking forward to sharing with you the most innovative practices – methods you can use immediately in your online or your face-to-face lessons. Unfortunately, most Ministers of Education today, are so concerned with science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and having test scores, that they forget that, at the end of the...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Lesson Ideas, Sin categoría, Skills, Teacher Development

Reader, Come Home

11 de agosto de 2019

by Fabiana Muliterno

Today, I would like to share with you a bit of the book “Reader, Come Home”, by Maryanne Wolf. This book has triggered a lot of reflection, being a techie myself on how I have been taking the habit of reading lately. According to her, we might be losing the ability to read a favorite...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Technology

Greenhouses, Gardens and Jungles – 2

2 de junho de 2019

by Lenora Haranaka

Taking the DELTA has changed me as a teacher in many ways, but I believe that it has most influenced the way I perceive and teach listening. I first came across the term ‘decoding’ when my dear tutor Melissa Lamb from IH London introduced me to John Field’s book ‘Listening in the Language Classroom’. Later...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Trends in ELT

Classroom experiences, critical thinking, Decoding, Listening, teacher development, teacher training, teaching skills

On practicing what you preach

1 de maio de 2019

by Sergio Pantoja

“You should write as often as possible” – that’s what I keep telling my students. Currently, 99% of my students are intrepid English teachers either preparing for the Cambridge English: Advanced or the Cambridge English: Proficiency, which means that their writing skills will be assessed via two writing tasks. Needless to say, it is my duty...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

reflection, teacher_development, writing

Greenhouses, Gardens and Jungles – 1

15 de abril de 2019

by Lenora Haranaka

What is your passion when it comes to teaching EFL? Is it one of the four skills [listening, speaking, reading or writing]? One of the four systems [pronunciation, lexis, grammar or discourse]? Teaching YLs or teens? Methodology, perhaps? Teacher training? – Hard to pick one, right? Well, I’ll do it anyways! I’ll start with Listening...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Skills

Classroom experiences, critical thinking, Decoding, Listening, teacher development, teaching skills

What does ‘good English’ even mean?

5 de novembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

“Your English is so beautiful.” – I sometimes hear, and I promise you I have a point in writing this, which is not that I’m a Leo (although I am). In fact, I’ve always been a bit reticent about those compliments about my English language proficiency, especially when they come from laypeople. I mean, we...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, assessment criteria, communicative competence, fluency, indigenous assessment criteria, research

YES! Let’s keep on talking about writing

29 de julho de 2018

by Isabela Villas Boas

It was two years ago today that I wrote a post for this same blog entitled Why don’t we talk about writing? The 15th BRAZ-TESOL International Conference had just ended and I discussed why there were so few talks on the subject of writing and why not many people chose to attend them, mine included. I...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

genres, writing

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