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Like, Comment, Share

22 de outubro de 2017

Would you like to Like, Comment and Share? This is the activity I mentioned on my last blog post about the three key features to teach speaking. These are the instructions. Preparation: cardstock paper, popsicle sticks, a pencil, templates, scissors and glue. Tell students they are going to have a group discussion about ‘dilemmas’ and...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills

lesson-ideas, skills, speaking

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

language, reading, reading_fluidity, reading_proficiency

I Am Prepared To Say I Am Lucky That Way!

24 de abril de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

In this day and age getting a job, let alone a position which suits you best, has become a scarce commodity. More and more professionals are seeking jobs that meet their needs. However, not many are actually prepared to meet the market needs. This is a harsh reality and it has obviously hit our ELT...Read More

Classroom Management, Skills, Teacher Development

classroom management, development, reading skills

Write Right, Right? Write, It Is All About CPD

24 de março de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

It might ‘cost you dear’! That is what we generally hear when people talk about investing time and money in learning a foreign language. By the same token, professional teachers are usually judged by how qualified they are in the teaching community and investing time and money on CPD seminars seems pretty much the way...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Learner Autonomy, Lesson Ideas, Skills, Teacher Development

CPD, Process Writing, writing

On tenterhooks

3 de março de 2017

by Dominic Walters

I went for a meeting last week with a woman who was interested in having English lessons. She said she needed to improve her English as the company she worked for had just signed a lucrative contract with an American firm. In all respects, she was an uninhibited and confident person who held a high...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

reflections about education, skills, teacher development

Language Development: A short self-study guide for teachers

28 de janeiro de 2017

by Teresa Carvalho

“A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.” ― Ruth Beechick, An Easy Start in Arithmetic, Grades K-3 In my last post, I talked about writing. The reason why I wrote about it is because I write, and writing is my journey into the core of the English language. The...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Pronunciation, Reflections about Education, Resources, Skills, Teacher Development

language awareness, language development

Using songs in the classroom

6 de dezembro de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

If you had been my student at around 2010 on of your complaints would have been that I never used songs in my lessons. Earlier in my career I used songs quite frequently, in that gap-fill let’s-kill-some-time kind of way. However, as I became more experienced, I realised that this kind of activity is not...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Skills

Classroom experiences, communication, creativity, EFL, elt, esl, songs, student engagement

Are you really teaching reading?

29 de novembro de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

In an integrated-skills curriculum, reading and writing can be easily neglected if curriculum developers and teachers do not make a conscious effort to focus on them explicitly and to teach them as skills on their own right, rather than mere reinforcement of grammar and vocabulary or a springboard for speaking. I have already discussed the...Read More

Skills, Teacher Development

bottom-up and top-down processing, reading strategies, teaching reading

What Students Can(n’t) Do with Tests

25 de novembro de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

Much has been written and said about tests. A lot of teachers, students, and parents don’t see the point of tests, especially when all tests do is test discrete items of grammar and vocabulary , especially when it comes to summative tests, which assess what students have learned over a period of time. I myself don’t believe in...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Skills

creative thinking, formative assessment, formative tests, inclusive education, life skills, pragmatic competence, reflection, summative assessment, summative tests, testing, written tests

Educators: A Plea for Auditing your Digital Literacies

25 de outubro de 2016

by Carla Arena

It´s been a while that educational communities talk about digital literacies. This has been a topic of my interest for a decade now. Still, what we see is a group of educators who follow exactly the curve of innovation in which we have the early adopters way ahead, investing in the development of their digital...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development, Technology

content curation, digital literacy, EdTech, professional development, professional image

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