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Storytelling by Use of Images

21 de maio de 2014

When telling a story, common practice usually entails reading from the book and showing your audience the picture. This makes sense in that the picture informs the listener what, and who the story is about. Another visual supplement may be flash cards and/or story cards. Today, more than ever, we record what we’ve experienced by...Read More

Classroom Experiences

characters, images, pictures, storytelling

The importance of reading for language development – part 1

19 de maio de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

The way I see it, reading vastly and variedly is the most important language-learning exercise there is. Extensive reading — which Thornbury (2006, p 191) defines as being the more leisurely reading of longer texts, primarily for pleasure, or in order to accumulate vocabulary, or simply to develop sound habits of reading — helps develop...Read More

Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

language development for teachers, reading

Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something cool to use with music.

18 de maio de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

Music and teaching go back a long way in my career. In the beginning there were the Beatles, the Carpenters, Carly Simon, The Police, and any other band that my students happened to enjoy. We have all experienced the incredible mood-altering power of music and we’ve seen it melt away a bad mood in our...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Vocabulary

creativity, ideas, songs, warmers

Teaching children is not a “anyone-can-do” sort of job

17 de maio de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Trying to respond to a high demand for English instruction, English schools pop up everywhere, without a proper control from the government in relation to the educational background of the teachers who will work in such schools. Called “cursos livres” by the Ministry of Education, they are not part of the regular school system, which...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

Continued Education, Teacher education, Young learners

At the end of the day, it’s all about the people…

15 de maio de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

I was supposed to have published this post on May the 01st. As I knew I was going to be in João Pessoa for the 14th BRAZ-TESOL International Conference, I really wanted my post to be about teacher development – mainly about attending conferences. I had even read some articles and blog posts on it...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, conferences, professional development, teacher development

Revisiting ELT Mantras #4: Exceptions to the rule

14 de maio de 2014

by Damian Willians

Solo by Thomas Leth-Olsen CC BY-SA 2.0 Complete the following sentences: 1 Some is for positive sentences, and any is for negatives and questions. Except … 2 Present tenses refer to the present, and past tenses refer to the past. Except … How many exceptions to to the above ‘rules’ could you think of in,...Read More

Grammar, Teacher Development

elt mantras, exceptions, grammar, grammar mcnuggets, rules

Comic books are not (only) for kids! — Part 01

13 de maio de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos! Para os próximos textos, resolvi fazer um apanhado de dicas sobre o uso de histórias em quadrinhos na sala de aula. Sou um grande apreciador da arte sequencial —e colecionador, diga-se de passagem — e, ocasionalmente, utilizo quadrinhos como ferramenta didática. Inclusive, vale a pena mencionar que aprendi muito com quadrinhos, um...Read More

Lesson Ideas

comic books, comics, HQ, inglês, quadrinhos

Language Acquisition: Morning Now and Other Weird Collocations

12 de maio de 2014

by Stephen Greene

My son is approaching 3 years of age and he is developing both his English and Portugese at an amazing rate. His language, though, sounds very strange, some people call it cute, and this is partly because he is being exposed to two languages at the same time and partly because he is still only 2...Read More

Language Acquisition

collocations, First Language Acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Becoming a Teacher: Expectations Vs Reality: Where does PD take place?

11 de maio de 2014

by Roseli Serra

Being a teacher for almost 30 years I have a clear idea of how demanding, time consuming and rewarding this profession is and how tough it can get sometimes. If you’ve been teaching for 2, 3 years, you probably have this idea already. Yes, I gave up my Psychologist career to become a teacher. Being...Read More

Teacher Development

career, professional development, teaching

Picture this

8 de maio de 2014

by Ceri Jones

Usually in my posts I like to share a lesson plan based on a special occasion. This time it’s the special occasion that has inspired my post! Last week I was following the 14th Braz TESOL conference from afar, through facebook updates, blog posts and shared images of João de Pessoa. It really looked like...Read More

Language Acquisition

description, imagination, picture, places

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