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The Big Picture of Language Learning

18 de maio de 2016

“Novices become acquainted with activities not only from their own and others’ attempts to define what transpires in an activity, but also from how those participating in the activity respond to them.” Elinor Ochs, in “Becoming a Speaker of A Culture.” (2002) I have just read Elinor Ochs’ article entitled ‘Becoming a Speaker of a Culture,’...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Inclusive Teaching, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

The Best Ever…

12 de maio de 2016

by Stephen Greene

I was teaching a class last week in which we revised superlatives. I hadn’t intended to do this, but it came up in conversation and I had to think of some way to practise ‘The best/worst ever…’ We ended up telling each other stories about what had happened to us in our careers and...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences

excuses, Funny stories, reasons

Giving clear instructions

10 de maio de 2016

by Beatriz Meneguetti

It seems such an obvious concept and such an easy thing to do, but then, you set up a task, or ask for an action, and it does not come up as imagined. Sometimes, students just understand or get partial information on what they are supposed to do and so, undesired behaviour comes to play....Read More

Teacher Development

instructions

Giving (and Receiving) Feedback

6 de maio de 2016

by Ricardo Barros

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about giving and receiving feedback. One of the reasons for that was a conversation with my friend Priscila Mateini on receiving negative feedback and dealing with failure. In addition, because of the nature of my job as a Celta tutor, I’m constantly giving feedback to teachers. Some of what...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

feedback, teacher development

And you know what else, she’s a Carioca

5 de maio de 2016

by Natália Guerreiro

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro. Now that’s something to be proud of: not only did I survive (mostly unscathed) one of the world’s most dangerous cities, but I also get beaming smiles and even hear some bossa nova tunes when I tell foreigners that’s where I’m from. So being from Rio...Read More

Career

equality, native speakerism, NES, NNES, non-native English language teacher, prejudice

A Word Atlas of the Mind

3 de maio de 2016

by Dominic Walters

There was some interesting news last week. Scientists at Berkeley University in the United States have mapped out how the brain organises language. Their ‘semantic atlas’ shows how the meaning of vocabulary is organised into different regions of the brain. In the past, it was believed that information about words’ meanings was represented in a...Read More

Vocabulary

language, semantic system, vocabulary

Intuition and professionalism

30 de abril de 2016

by Marcela Cintra

Earlier this month I attended the 50th IATEFL conference in Birmingham and among many of the discussions and sessions there was a moment when Jim Scrivener suggested teachers used more of their intuition. He was defending a moment for simplifying teacher training and, although I agree with certain points (e.g. training is a starting point, perhaps...Read More

Reflections about Education

Walking An Extra Mile – Why Should I Want to Do It Alone?

25 de abril de 2016

by Adriano Zanetti

Having embarked on the teaching of English in the public sector, little did I know how many hours would take my students to walk an extra mile! You must be thinking that a mile is a mile. Indeed, yet not many students have the knack for measuring it properly. Forgive me my fellow mathematicians but...Read More

Reflections about Education

The native versus non-native teacher dichotomy – Challenging Mental Models

16 de abril de 2016

by Isabela Villas Boas

I saw a post recently on Facebook advertising a position for a native speaking teacher in a Brazilian language program. The post appeared on the page of a closed group for English teachers in Brazil. The reaction to the post was immediate. People wanted to know why the program was only hiring native speakers and...Read More

Reflections about Education

Native speaker fallacy, NNEST

Lost in Translation – O uso da tradução na sala de aula

14 de abril de 2016

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos e todas! Para este post de hoje, resolvi trazer um pouco à baila um assunto que tem a ver com uma das minhas atividades profissionais relacionadas à língua inglesa. Sou tradutor, atualmente trabalhando mais com livros de RPG (para saber um pouco mais sobre isso, leia meu post). Entretanto, sempre que posso,...Read More

Vocabulary

grammar, reading, skills, tradução, translation, vocabulary, writing

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