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Teacher Development

Are you really teaching reading?

29 de novembro de 2016

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

Gigging into the future

9 de novembro de 2016

by Dominic Walters

I was asked recently what I did for a living. I replied that I was a freelance teacher and teacher trainer, working for an assortment of organizations, companies and individuals. However, what I am part of is the ‘gig economy’. A ‘gigger’, if you like. But what is it, and how will it affect English...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development, Technology

Suffixes: pronunciation for teachers

6 de novembro de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

It seems to me that my posts here have, unintentionally, turned into a pronunciation series. I’ve been keeping my eyes /aɪz/ and ears /ɪərz/ open to things to write about. Last week, I worked with the pronunciation of different suffixes in different places. Because of that, I thought this would be an appropriate topic and I’ve...Read More

Pronunciation, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, elt, professional development, pronunciation, pronunciation errors, teacher development

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

Understanding Classroom Life: My first steps into Exploratory Practice

22 de outubro de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

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

Final /i/ and /m/: pronunciation for teachers

6 de outubro de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

After receiving some positive feedback on my previous post about pronunciation, I started thinking about other pronunciation areas that I thought were problematic. These are mistakes your students will certainly make, but that you may be making yourself too. The two sounds I have chosen have a couple of similarities to the /s/ and /z/...Read More

Pronunciation, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, intelligibility, language development for teachers, professional development, pronunciation

“Can you help me with this quick questionnaire?” — ELT Survey Mistakes

5 de outubro de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

Have you noticed how many ELT surveys there have been out there as of late? Teachers seem to be firing off questionnaires to other teachers all the time now, about the most varied topics, from tasks used in class to teacher profile, from student motivation to whatnot. That is probably a consequence of the advent of apps...Read More

Teacher Development

conferences, questionnaire design, questionnaires, research, research design, statistics, stats, surveys

On teacher learning

30 de setembro de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

Today I was very inspired by a group of professionals attending my presentation during the 3rd BT TDSIG one-day seminar and I decided to post my contribution to the blog only after having talked to many of the committed teachers about development. Hall & Simeral (2010), in one of my favourite quotes about teaching, highlight...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

The freelance language teacher

27 de setembro de 2016

by Taylor Veigga

A fellow teacher told me about a well-known language institute that started selling a new, faster course. He asked me how I thought he could compete with them. I told them he shouldn’t, they are not his competition. What many teachers do not understand is that when they decide to work as freelance language teachers, they...Read More

Career, Resources, Teacher Development

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