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Teacher Development

The challenge of developing learner autonomy

17 de novembro de 2014
by Vivian Magalhães
Robin MacClure starts her article “Unnecessary Parents” by saying that “the ultimate job of parents is to raise kids in a way so that they are not needed. In other words, parents should work themselves out of a job.” Well, I think that also applies to teachers, and especially to language teachers. Our goal should...Read More
Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Resources, Teacher Development
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Revisiting ELT mantras #9: Quoting people

14 de novembro de 2014
by Damian Willians
Kitten! by Sergey Ivanov CC BY-SA 2.0 This month’s post has nothing to do with kittens, but do we really need an excuse?   This month I’m straying from the topic of teaching slightly to look at what happens when we, as teachers, write about our profession. It’s a topic that’s quite close to my...Read More
Career, Teacher Development
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Carta de Londrina

27 de outubro de 2014
by Laura Miccoli
Hi Everyone!   As expected, the 1o Fórum de Profissionalização Docente, at Universidade Estadual de Londrina was intense (see last month’s post).   Five round tables gathered Brazilian teachers and researchers to discuss: (1) “History: Language teaching, formal education, labouring conditions and representation”, (2) “Public Educational Policies: perspectives in different levels and contexts”, (3) “Education...Read More
Teacher Development
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Teachers and Grammar

21 de outubro de 2014
by Henrick Oprea
“Over the years, language teachers have alternated between favoring teaching approaches that focus primarily on language use and those that focus on language forms or analysis. The alternation has been due to a fundamental disagreement concerning whether one learns to communicate in a second language by communicating in that language (such as in an immersion...Read More
Grammar, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development
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Revisiting ELT Mantras #8: 4 types of phrasal verbs

14 de outubro de 2014
by Damian Willians
As a Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST) who didn’t learn any English grammar at school, it wasn’t until I started training as a teacher and then teaching that I really started to get to grips with the English grammatical – and later lexical – system. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been a point where...Read More
Grammar, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary
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Engaging learners (Part 2)

9 de outubro de 2014
by Rubens Heredia
Last month, we looked at personalisation, guided discovery and raising awareness of sub-skills and strategies as ways to promote learner engagement (click here to check it out). Today, I’d like to share some more ideas on this topic, which I consider one of the most important, albeit challenging, in both lesson preparation and delivery. Reacting...Read More
Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development
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