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Revisiting ELT Mantras #5: Grade the task, not the text

14 de junho de 2014

10 years ago I was teaching in in a school in central London. At that time the internet as a teaching resource was just beginning to take off, and while I and many of my peers were starting to get to grips with how to get the most out of it, there was always the...Read More

Resources, Teacher Development

authentic texts, graded texts

Comic books are not (only) for kids! — Part 02

13 de junho de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá, pessoal! Conforme prometido, vamos à segunda parte das minhas dicas sobre como usar quadrinhos na sala de aula. No artigo passado, só para lembrarem, falei sobre algumas fontes para que vocês pudessem conseguir material autêntico para trabalhar com seus alunos. Agora, vejamos o que dá para fazer com esse material todo: Grammar: está trabalhando...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources

comics, história em quadrinhos, HQ

Language Acquisition: Linguistic Landscapes

12 de junho de 2014

by Stephen Greene

When my son was about 18 months old I took him to a local shopping centre here in Curitiba. I don’t normally do this because I hate shopping centres with a passion, but it was raining and we were both going stir crazy from being in the house for too long. At one point my...Read More

Language Acquisition

Learning outside the classroom, Linguistic landscape, Mapping Urban Linguistic Landscape

TEACHING PRODUCTIVE SKILLS – Speaking

11 de junho de 2014

by Roseli Serra

Communication between humans is an extremely complex and ever-changing phenomenon, but there are certain generalisations that we can make about the majority of communicative events and these will have particular relevance for the learning and teaching of languages. Learning to speak a foreign language is much more complex than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules....Read More

Skills

communication, communicative purpose, conversation, speaking

Feel vs. know

11 de junho de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

For the past six months I’ve been teaching a close friend of mine once a week, on a one-to-one basis. He’s what most people would refer to as an elementary learner, but in many important ways he’s anything but your typical A2. And that’s partly because he’s highly intuitive. The more I teach him, the...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition

implicit knowledge, linguistic intuition

A helping hand

9 de junho de 2014

by Vinicius Nobre

We often wish for a helping hand in our careers; that generous supervisor, coordinator or colleague who will set goals for our development, introduce us to the right people, invite us to embark on different waters and acknowledge our strengths and talents. We hope that this one mentor will spot our gifts, give us an...Read More

Career

growth, mentor, professional development, professional responsibility

Drop-out rates… Who’s responsible?

9 de junho de 2014

by Beatriz Meneguetti

June has arrived and with it the end of the first academic semester of the year. This period comes with mixed feelings, feeling of duty fulfilled for a term well worked, but also a kind of uncertainty whether or not the groups will remain the same for the following term. In regular schools, enrolments are...Read More

Reflections about Education

drop-out rates, drop-outs, management, retention, retention rates, students’ involvement

When students become the teachers

8 de junho de 2014

by admin

Half of the year has gone but we still have some time for new ideas and projects till December comes. This month I´ll share with you a project developed with our 8th graders this year. One of the units in the coursebook we use deals with different kinds of schools and vocabulary related to learning...Read More

Classroom Experiences

language, project, teaching

A lesson for all seasons

6 de junho de 2014

by Ceri Jones

This lesson plan is one for any time, any where, any students… 1 Show the four images below. Ask your students to choose one and think (not talk) about why that particular image appeals to them. Allow them plenty of thinking time. 2 Tell them about the picture you choose, but don’t say...Read More

Language Acquisition

Language acquisition, sensations, speaking

The ELTons

6 de junho de 2014

by Luke Baxter

Everyone at Richmond was deliriously excited about getting an ELTon nomination for our Big Picture app. The ELTons are the very prestigious British Council awards that recognise innovation in ELT. Deborah Tricker, our Global Publishing Director, Laura Orchard who works in our Oxford marketing department and is the queen of all things social media and...Read More

Technology

app, awards, eltons, the big picture

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