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Pragmatically speaking – why don’t we study and teach Pragmatics more?

5 de abril de 2016

A friend of mine, who is also an English teacher, was taking Pragmatics at uni and admitted she was struggling to see the point of all that theory. I wanted to reply in neon and all caps: “All the point in the world!” Ironically, I don’t think I did convince her. I say it was...Read More

Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

British vs American, communicative functions, corrective feedback, error correction, functions, intercultural competence, miscommunication, mistakes, misunderstanding, pragmatic competence, pragmatics

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

A vida não é um cursinho de inglês…

22 de outubro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

Esta semana, surfando na internet, me deparei com um meme bastante bem humorado que me chamou a atenção, arrancando aquele sorriso típico de quem admite para si mesmo: ‘genial!’ Eis aqui o dito cujo: Não obstante o riso quase que inevitável, por de trás do bom humor (através de um símile que faz alusão ao estereótipo...Read More

Classroom Management, Pronunciation, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, communication, EFL, elt mantras, intelligibility, professional development, pronunciation

Ser fluente é falar como um nativo. Será?

22 de setembro de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

No artigo 7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela, apresentei algumas definições de “fluência” comumente encontradas na internet e procurei mostrar como elas são ainda bastante vagas e controversas (mesmo entre os profissionais da área de idiomas), dando ensejo aos mais diversos usos e abusos do termo pelo mercado....Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

aprendizado de idiomas, aquisição de fluência, falante não nativo, falante nativo, falar fluentemente, fluência

7 conceitos de fluência e o que você deveria saber a respeito dela

22 de agosto de 2015

by Marcelo de Cristo

No artigo intitulado O que nunca lhe contaram sobre terminar um curso de idiomas em tempo recorde, procurei contextualizar e explicar criticamente o surgimento da necessidade de se falar um idioma “fluentemente” (o mais depressa possível) em decorrência principalmente da mudança de paradigma e das exigências do mercado na sociedade atual. Indo na direção contrária,...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

aprendizado de idiomas, aquisição de fluência, falar fluentemente, fluência

Have you ever wondered why English is the way it is?

20 de agosto de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

“So now you must choose… Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world...Read More

Grammar, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Vocabulary

england, History of English

Idioms? Not my cup of tea.

14 de julho de 2015

by Damian Willians

I’ve always had a strange sense of foreboding when teaching idiomatic expressions. A while back I was teaching a lesson based on personality, and we ended up looking at some idioms: couch potato, wet blanket, backseat driver, chip on your shoulder, etc. We explored the meaning, did some practise, then discussed some questions about people we know...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Vocabulary

damian williams, idioms, lexis, linguistic landscapes, phrasal verbs, tailor made english, tme

On Fluency and Accuracy

20 de abril de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Although attempts to define ‘fluency’ and ‘accuracy’ when speaking a foreign language abound in the specialized literature, there still does not seem to exist a consensus regarding a single, ultimate definition of either one of the terms. One of the reasons which could partly explain the lack of common ground among authors is the very...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, language chunks, vocabulary

It’s the thing you use when you don’t know how to say the word you want

20 de março de 2015

by Edmilson Chagas

Generally defined as the unnecessary use of a large number of words to express an idea – when fewer, more direct ones would do – circumlocution seems to bear a somewhat negative connotation. It is often frowned upon by literary critics who tend to attach greater value to a more pragmatic approach to writing. In...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Speaking and Spoken Language

communication breakdowns, Communication strategies, conversation, curcumlocution, fluency-oriented

My Mind Went Blank

3 de março de 2015

by Dominic Walters

Did you happen to see the story about the leader of the Green Party in the UK? Well, she went to give a live interview on the radio last week to kick off her party’s election campaign. About two minutes into the interview, she was asked a question about her party’s housing policy. Upon which...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language

anxiety, mind blank, speaking in public

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