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When Technology Overlaps Language and Pedagogy

4 de junho de 2014

English language learners in the 21st century are in the center of a technological revolution. Prensky (2001a) referred to today’s children as “digital natives” and acknowledged the fact that today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Moreover, research has indicated that today’s average young adult has spent fewer...Read More

Technology

educational technology, knowledge, Teacher education, technology

Talking football

3 de junho de 2014

by Dominic Walters

You may or may not be aware that the football championship is just around the corner with national teams beginning to arrive, stadiums being finished and with thousands of people brushing up on their English. Football (or ‘scoccer ’) is the most popular sport in the world, played and talked about by millions of people. It...Read More

Vocabulary

championship, football, idiomatic expressions, idioms

My kid wants to be a teacher. Now what?

2 de junho de 2014

by elainehodgson

I must have mentioned before on this blog that I teach adolescents in their last year of High School. Needless to say, this is a period of great anxiety as most of them intend to go to university and now have to choose a career. It is the time when most of them realise that...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, career, Professional, teaching

Teacher Development & Teachers’ Associations

1 de junho de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

I always say that one of the things I like the most about teaching is that I’m always learning. And I’m quite sure I’m not the only one… We teachers learn a lot not only from our students and from fellow teachers but also from what we read, from conferences we attend, and so on....Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, conferences, courses for teachers, language development for teachers, professional development, teacher development, teacher training, teachers' associations

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT: C is for…

31 de maio de 2014

by Dennis Warren

#3: C is for Coursebooks Sadly, there are coursebooks whose job seems to be to perpetuate or reinforce stereotypes, like the one below. Happily, that’s not the case in mainstream publishing. Instead we have generic pap – UHT coursebooks aimed at everyone and landing nowhere. ELT publisher seem to be a bit like political parties...Read More

Classroom Experiences

Students: Distracted or Hooked to the Screen?

28 de maio de 2014

by Carla Arena

The discussion revolving around the use of mobile devices in the classroom is still strong. Some teachers have embraced the gadgets, feeling that they are powerful learning tools. Others, due to insecurity or strong beliefs argue that cell phones and tablets are a poor replacement for traditional teaching, just substituting what is already done well...Read More

Educational Technology, Technology

cellphones, classroom, edudemic, EFL, esl, lesson plan, mlearning, screen, tablets, TEFL

Why would a cat chase a hat?

24 de maio de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Here’s one more post with ideas and suggestions for helping our learners become aware of pronunciation areas which are essential for their intelligibility, and overcome their difficulties. This time let’s focus on a very common Brazilian pronunciation problem which fortunately teachers and more recent course books (like Richmond’s new English ID series) have been giving...Read More

Games, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, classroom activity, intelligibility, priorities, pronunciation

Reading: A Skill or Habit

24 de maio de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

By definition reading is the action of a person who looks at and understands the meaning of written or printed words or symbols. But there is much more to that than meet the eyes. Nuttall (1996:2) believes that not only does reading comprise decoding, deciphering and identifying words, but it is above all an opportunity...Read More

Skills

intensive and extensive reading, reading competence and proficiency, reading sub-skills, skills integration

HOW can technology become invisible?

22 de maio de 2014

by Ana Maria Menezes

In a previous post, I discussed about the importance of technology invisibility in the classroom. According to Lehman (2010), technology should be : Ubiquitous = available all the time. Necessary = used when necessary. Invisible = a natural procedure. Another author who thinks likewise is Bax (2011). The author coined the term “normalisation” to address...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Technology

EdTech, invisibility, normalisation, tech integration, technology

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