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Skills

Learning to Learn

18 de janeiro de 2015

This month’s post is about different ways of learning, or learning styles, as some authors put it. It’s also about why I believe they exist even when we totally ignore their existence. It is a controversial issue for many teachers, who have mixed feelings about it. Do Learning Styles really exist? Are they just...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

ELT materials, learning, learning styles, Marjorie Rosenberg, myths, webinar

Ten tips for effective peer revision of EFL writing

8 de dezembro de 2014

by Isabela Villas Boas

My last post addressed the main excuses given for not doing peer revision of writing in the EFL classroom, especially in contexts such as Brazil, where peer revision is unheard of in most L1 writing classrooms. Having hopefully convinced you that it is worth at least trying peer revision in your classroom, I will now...Read More

Skills

peer revision, second language writing

Five bad excuses for not doing peer revision of writing in the EFL classroom

21 de novembro de 2014

by Isabela Villas Boas

My dear colleague Luiz Otávio Barros wrote a recent post providing ten tips to help teachers give feedback on writing. The ten tips are all very useful and are certainly in-keeping with contemporary ESL/EFL writing pedagogy. Just like Luiz Otávio, I also consider White and Arndt’s 1991 book Process Writing a seminal work on how...Read More

Skills

second language writing; peer revision

10 tips to help you give feedback on writing

10 de novembro de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

There have been a lot of pendulum swings in our profession since the early 90s, but the teaching of writing seems to be a bit of an exception. Compared to, for example, the sibling rivalry between PPP vs. task-based learning, the half-hearted nod of approval translation’s finally starting to get or, say, the recent comeback...Read More

Classroom Management, Skills

feedback, teaching writing

Listen to learn, learn to listen

25 de agosto de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

I was delivering this session on Developing Listening skills to a Pre-service course at CISJDR and got bewildered, not to mention shocked, at what one trainee brought up in a group discussion. She categorically affirmed that she is not allowed to work on listening skills in her school as it may disrupt the class and...Read More

Skills

aural impact, intensive and extensive listening, listening subskills, post-listening, potential listening problems, pre-listening, skills integration, while-listening

Revisiting ELT Mantras #6: Reading aloud

14 de agosto de 2014

by Damian Willians

Picture the scene: There I was, a shy 13-year-old boy, dressed in an itchy, ill-fitting school uniform in the middle of a German language class. Our teacher, Mrs. Dawson, a strict woman who ruled the classroom with an iron fist, is going round the class calling out people to read chunks of a text out...Read More

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

EFL, elt, esl, reading, reading aloud, speaking

Is Voz do Brasil what you hear or listen to?

24 de julho de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Voz do Brasil, former Hora do Brasil, is the oldest radio programme in the country whose political content broadcast is mandatory to all radio stations. It is regularly aired at 19:00 sharp, Brasilia time. You may wonder what is with that and how it is connected to learning. In fact, this is closely related to...Read More

Skills

aural impact, hearing x listening, intensive and extensive listening, listening proficiency, listening strategies, listening subskills

Do you understand?

2 de julho de 2014

by elainehodgson

In my experience as an English teacher, I have observed other teachers’ lessons and been observed countless times. It is probably safe to say that the majority of teachers are much more concerned about what to do than about how to do it. However, the ‘hows’ can be as important as the ‘whats’ and ‘whys’,...Read More

Classroom Management, Lesson Ideas, Skills, Teacher Development

Classroom experiences, teaching

Reading: Building A Skilful Habit

24 de junho de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Is reading a skill in isolation? No language skill, either receptive or productive, should be dealt with in isolation in class. Reading texts hold an awful lot of language, information, and topics among other things that can lead to speaking and writing. Thereby, it would not be wise to engage students in a reading task...Read More

Skills

accuracy-oriented, fluency-oriented, intensive and extensive reading, reading dificulties, skill-based and text-based lessons, skills integration, top-down and bottom-up processes

TEACHING PRODUCTIVE SKILLS – Speaking

11 de junho de 2014

by Roseli Serra

Communication between humans is an extremely complex and ever-changing phenomenon, but there are certain generalisations that we can make about the majority of communicative events and these will have particular relevance for the learning and teaching of languages. Learning to speak a foreign language is much more complex than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules....Read More

Skills

communication, communicative purpose, conversation, speaking

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