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The Translanguaging Pedagogy: Friend or Foe?

6 de setembro de 2018

Translanguaging is a term that was first coined in 1994 as trawsieithu (translanguaging in Welsh) by Welsh researcher Cen Williams in order to refer to the processes in which English and Welsh were used for different reasons and purposes in the same class. For example, students would read or listen to content in English and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

bilingualism, CLIL, codeswitching, Essential Questions, translanguage, translanguaging

Sell your service, not your soul

5 de setembro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

Many teachers are becoming their own bosses nowadays, to the point that the word “teacherpreneur” has become a thing (hopefully a fad, as I can’t pronounce that word for the life of me). That of course adds fuel to the debate on whether teachers should dab at Sales & Marketing – or rather how. I’m...Read More

Career

entrepreneurship, ethics, marketing, sales, teacherpreneur

Investigating the impact of technology to improve learning experiences

5 de setembro de 2018

by Alan Couto

Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore’s article Welcome to the Experience of Economy has on its opening page the following statement: “As goods and services become commoditized, the customer experiences that companies create will matter most.” (Pine and Gilmore, 199:97) and much in the same way, it is a positive experience that learners also seek in...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Educational Technology, Speaking and Spoken Language, Technology, Trends in ELT

learning-experiences, practical-english-language-teaching, technology

Inside the 16th BTIC - an encouragement for developing teachers

The role of the EF/SL teacher in society

4 de setembro de 2018

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

As an EFL teacher, you must have already realised that the roles we play are as volatile as this ever-evolving world we live in. Let’s start by focusing on some of the changes our role has been through in the classroom: We are not the source of all wisdom and power anymore (if we have...Read More

Career

eflt-eacher, esl-teacher, teacher-role, teacher-role-in-society

Should presentations in Portuguese be allowed in ELT Conferences in Brazil?

2 de setembro de 2018

by elainehodgson

Scene 1: Big conference in Brazil. The speaker, a Brazilian, goes onto the stage to begin her plenary session. While she speaks, you notice she makes some mistakes, pronunciation mistakes, grammar mistakes, but the content of her presentation is relevant and she manages to get her message across. At the end of her talk, you...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

career, challenges, conferences, CPD, critical thinking, EFL, ELF, intelligibility, language, professional development, reflection, teacher development

Professionalism in ELT

30 de agosto de 2018

by Marcela Cintra

There are many English language teaching professionals working under this umbrella term in specific areas such as English as a foreign language or English in the public sector. The diversity of smaller groups may be a great opportunity for professionals aiming at increasing their repertoire of experiences as they have the chance to discuss the...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

elt, professionalism

Inside the 16th BTIC – an encouragement for developing teachers

4 de agosto de 2018

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

This year’s international conference, that took place in Caxias do Sul, was, as expected, amazing. I was not sure I would be able to participate until the last minute, therefore I didn’t submit any papers, however, I had the chance of “relaxing” and enjoying the ‘backstage’. These types of conferences will surely provide you with a...Read More

Career

16btic, beatriz-solino, BTIC, developing-teachers, EFL, elt

YES! Let’s keep on talking about writing

29 de julho de 2018

by Isabela Villas Boas

It was two years ago today that I wrote a post for this same blog entitled Why don’t we talk about writing? The 15th BRAZ-TESOL International Conference had just ended and I discussed why there were so few talks on the subject of writing and why not many people chose to attend them, mine included. I...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

genres, writing

Translanguaging – what is it?

27 de julho de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

One of the most intriguing new concepts around bilingual education in the 21st century is translanguaging. According to Ofelia Garcia in her book Bilingual Education in the 21st Century – A Global Perspective, translanguaging is “the act performed by bilinguals of accessing different linguistic features or various modes of what are described as autonomous languages, in order to...Read More

Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

translanguaging

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