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Great teachers are to be treasured, but how do we recognise them?

2 de agosto de 2014

If you were present at the last BRAZ-TESOL National Convention in João Pessoa, you may, just like me, keep going down memory lane and think about the highlights of the conference. For me, one of these highlights, was when the brilliant plenary speaker J. J. Wilson said “Great teachers have to be treasured, not measured.”...Read More

Career

What is ‘meaningful learning’?

31 de julho de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! Many years ago I took a class in educational psychology and came across this quote from the cognitive psychologist, David Ausubel: “If I had to reduce all of cognitive psychology to one principle it would be this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and...Read More

Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

classroom activity, Language acquisition, teacher development, teaching

Adaptive Learning

31 de julho de 2014

by Luke Baxter

I am the Digital Publisher for Richmond and it is part of my job to keep abreast of the hot topics and technology trends that are affecting our industry. Right now there is nothing hotter than adaptive learning. Adaptive learning is part of a wider trending topic: big data. The theory seems to be that...Read More

Technology

adaptive learning, big data, eltjam blog, technology trends

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT: N is for Natives

30 de julho de 2014

by Dennis Warren

#5: N is for Natives I’m not going to revisit the old stuff about inherent linguistic knowledge vs explicit understanding, nor the career teacher vs the traveller, and certainly not local cultural knowledge versus target cultural knowledge. I’m going to ask a simple question. What’s the difference between a table and a native teacher of...Read More

Teacher Development

Art in Icebreakers

28 de julho de 2014

by Carla Arena

by @KUUNSTKUULTUR , at Flickr, Creative Commons After an exciting and reinvigorating presentation of my co-workers in our 10th CTJ TEFL Seminar in which they inspired teachers to use art in different ways to foster communication and critical thinking, as well as to develop visual literacy, I felt inspired to start my semester using a...Read More

Educational Technology

art, EdTech, icebreakers, ppt, slideshare

Have you ever wondered how your actions as a teacher may shape the classroom dynamics that you actually experience?

27 de julho de 2014

by Laura Miccoli

Hello everyone! This month, I’d like to share some of the results of a dissertation that investigated, through classroom observation and interviews, the oral narratives of four public and private-school teachers. Carolina Lima[1] wanted an answer to this difficult question: what underlies the decisions teachers’ make? In academia, making decisions or choosing a course of...Read More

Classroom Experiences

English teaching, experiences, human agency

Usar o Português na Aula de Inglês: sim ou não?

26 de julho de 2014

by Denilso de Lima

O que você pensa sobre o uso da língua portuguesa nas aulas de inglês? Você é daqueles ou daquelas que o simples fato de soltar uma palavra em português durante a aula é algo abominável? Neste artigo apresento os argumentos a favor do uso prudente do uso da língua materna no ensino de inglês dentro...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Teacher Development

A lot from a little V

25 de julho de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

Continuing my series on less is more. Today, and in the following posts, we will look at how much can be discovered about spoken language from watching a monologue of a mere 200 words. In this case, the monologue is given by Dani, a proficient non-native speaker of English from Barcelona. Before reading the rest...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

communication, language, strategies, video

Is Voz do Brasil what you hear or listen to?

24 de julho de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

Voz do Brasil, former Hora do Brasil, is the oldest radio programme in the country whose political content broadcast is mandatory to all radio stations. It is regularly aired at 19:00 sharp, Brasilia time. You may wonder what is with that and how it is connected to learning. In fact, this is closely related to...Read More

Skills

aural impact, hearing x listening, intensive and extensive listening, listening proficiency, listening strategies, listening subskills

Re•sil•ience

23 de julho de 2014

by cecilialemos

/riˈzilyəns/ noun: resilience; plural noun: resiliences 1. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. 2. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Some of you may be wondering why I am talking about resilience in a blog post for English teachers, but for some reason I think...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, language development for teachers, teacher development, well-being

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