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Understanding Classroom Life: My first steps into Exploratory Practice

22 de outubro de 2016

Why do my students participate in my classes? This is the question I asked myself when I first met this group of twenty s teenagers age 15-16 years old. From day one, they took part in the activities and spoke English most of the time. I was puzzled. How come? We meet at the end...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education, Resources, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Allwright, Bakhtin, Exploratory Practice, Understanding classroom life

Reading tasks: 3 pitfalls to avoid

4 de outubro de 2016

by Luis Otávio Barros

Most of us like to use authentic, non-coursebook, hot-off-the-press texts in class from time to time. This entails not only choosing interesting, level-appropriate material, but also devising tasks that will enable students to get as much out of the text as possible. Writing good comprehension questions is trickier than meets the eye, though. Here are three pitfalls to...Read More

Skills

reading tasks

Five reasons why we should talk about writing

29 de agosto de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

In my last post, I wrote about why it seems to me that the topic “teaching writing” is avoided in ELT conferences. Now I’m going to mention why I believe it is a topic that should receive more attention, and I’m going to do so by relating it to some of the hot...Read More

Skills

writing

Making lesson more relevant with positive TTT: Listening

10 de agosto de 2016

by Rubens Heredia

A lot can be found in ELT books about how to use a range of different tasks and activities in order to make lessons more engaging and the promise of making learning fun has certainly spawned generations of resource books. Yet, although words on our role of selecting and designing activities are ubiquitous, little is...Read More

Classroom Management, Lesson Ideas, Skills

instructions, Listening

Why don’t we talk about writing?

29 de julho de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

The fabulous 15th Braz-TESOL International Conference ended a couple of weeks ago and I am still processing all the information I acquired in the many presentations I attended during the event. The program was varied both in terms of topics and presenters, and everything I chose to watch was meaningful in one way or...Read More

Skills, Teacher Development

writing

10 Top Tips to Encourage Extensive Reading

12 de março de 2016

by Stephen Greene

I once had the great pleasure to see the funniest comedian ever doing his stand-up routine live at my university. I was only a few weeks into my first term when I saw the flyers going around advertising Bill Hicks in the student union. I persuaded a couple of new-found friends to go with me...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Skills

Extensive reading, reading, Top tips

5 fenômenos que afetam sua fluência

22 de novembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

Todo estudante de língua estrangeira sonha com o tempo em que estará falando “fluentemente” o idioma escolhido. Dentre os principais mitos citados no artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, um dos mais frequentes é o de que ser fluente significa falar sem pausas. E não é pra...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

alongamentos, análise da fala, aquisição de fluência, falar fluentemente, false-starts, falsos começos, fillers, fluência, fluency, fluency-oriented, pausas, repetição

Helping your teenage students reach a real audience for their stories

18 de março de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

My Portuguese grandfather was a globetrotter and, when he died, we inherited dozens of postcards from every city he had visited. I was the only one in the family who took some interest in the postcards and the beautiful places that I never thought I would have a chance to go to. However, I decided...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Resources, Skills, Technology

futureme.org, goodreads, real audience, Vygotsky, wattpad, writing, writing skills, zone of proximal development

Seeking continuous development (part 1)

9 de fevereiro de 2015

by Rubens Heredia

February is a great opportunity for us to finally get down to implementing our New Year resolutions, isn’t it? It is only natural that we take this time to revisit our professional life and make important decisions to develop professionally and avoid the tantalising stagnation of our comfort zone. Yet, many teachers I talk to...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

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