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Idioms? Not my cup of tea.

14 de julho de 2015

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

A Simple Step Towards Professional Development: Reading

18 de junho de 2015

by Teresa Carvalho

A few years ago I had to catch up with a lot of reading for the DELTA module 1, aka Reading for DELTA module. At first, the amount of reading I was supposed to do in such a short time was overwhelming. I wasn’t sure if I was up for the task, but as those...Read More

Career, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

autonomy, lightbown spada, reading, schmitt, vocabulary growth

Made in Translation

3 de junho de 2015

by Dominic Walters

I’ve been using quite a lot of translation recently. Maybe it’s because I’ve forgotten what was drummed into me when I did my CELTA course all those years ago, or maybe because when used discernibly, it can be a very useful learning technique. Translation from the mother tongue into the target language has been much...Read More

Vocabulary

authentic texts, different levels, L1, target language, translation

My journey through the Linguistic Landscape

14 de março de 2015

by Damian Willians

Photo by Higor Cavalcante | CC BY 2.0 No matter where you are in the world today, English is everywhere you look. It’s used in shop signs, products in the supermarket, the names of buildings, menus, graffiti, airports, public transport, shopping centres, notices, advertising posters and hoardings. In fact, here in Brazil there is even an...Read More

Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Resources, Vocabulary

Linguistic landscape, mull, murbll

Keeping my word (of the day)

5 de janeiro de 2015

by Natália Guerreiro

It’s that resolute time of the year again. And as we are all still following through with the promises we made on New Year’s Eve, here’s a resolution from me: keep my #WordoftheDay tag on Facebook. Daily. “Surely,” a kind soul might ask, “you don’t have that many words left to learn?” I wish....Read More

Teacher Development, Vocabulary

social media, teacher development, teacher's language competence, vocabulary, vocabulary notebook

Une Tomate Rouge and How Languages Work

18 de dezembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

1. Une Tomate Rouge Less than a month ago I decided to take up French and I am already being faced with big challenges: I had assumed that languages close to your own in the language tree should not be too hard to learn, so I picked...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, language development, learning styles, skype, teaching styles

‘Swamped’ with options

3 de novembro de 2014

by Dominic Walters

A couple of weeks ago, the British defence secretary Michael Fallon claimed British towns are being “swamped” by immigrants. He made the claim in response to a question posed by an interviewer on Sky News. The Conservative Party, to which Michael Fallon belongs, was none too happy and quickly forced Mr Fallon to withdraw his...Read More

Vocabulary

choosing words, synonyms, vocabulary

Teaching Vocabulary: Using Research Findings to Inform Teaching

31 de outubro de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

In this post, I’d like to report on some fascinating research I had the pleasure of seeing presented at the recent MEXTESOL conference in Puebla, Mexico. What particularly interested me was the connection to the topic of meaningful learning that I have been talking about on this blog as well as the direct application of...Read More

Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

research-based teaching, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

Reading Made Easy for Learners

19 de outubro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

As a teenager, I read anything I could lay my hands on; that included all sorts of literature: good and bad. It didn’t matter as long as it was an interesting story ( from a young girl’s perspective, I might say). As a young English language learner, I was lucky to study at an English...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Resources, Vocabulary

library, motivation, reading, reading tasks

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

grammar, language, lexis, multi word verbs, phrasal verbs

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