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Lexical Mathematics 2: The Soul Behind The Face

24 de abril de 2014

Collocation Competence – fluency and accuracy hand in hand There is a number of reasons why a sound knowledge of collocations is desirable, especially for more advanced learners. Hill (2000) relies on collocations to explain that language consists largely of pre-fabricate chunks of lexis. Therefore, not only is the accurate and appropriate use of collocations...Read More

Vocabulary

Accuracy, colocations, fluency, lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

Would you like a cough?

23 de abril de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Cecilia Lemos’s today’s post about the importance of intelligibility when teaching pronunciation made me think it is time I went beyond my two previous posts – where I talked about investigating Brazilian learners’ specific pronunciation needs and tackling their intelligibility problems – and move on to something more specific and practical. What do we know about...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation

Intelligi….what?

23 de abril de 2014

by cecilialemos

For quite some time now, I have been trying to lower my adult students’ affective filters about their pronunciation difficulties. These affective filters (proposed by Stephen Krashen) “(…) acts to control the amount and quality of input learners receive.” (Thornbury, 2006 p.8). Affective filters can include motivation, self-confidence and anxiety. Anyone who has taught or...Read More

Pronunciation, Skills, Teacher Development

adult students, communication, ELF, intelligibility, pronunciation

Props in Storytelling

22 de abril de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

Props can be anything used to aid in the telling of a story. The audience needs to be made to believe that the object is representative to some aspect of the story. Tell the story, because the audience wants to believe. In the classroom, props can be used throughout the story or just as a...Read More

Language Acquisition

props, storytelling

Tech Integration: the importance of invisibility

22 de abril de 2014

by Ana Maria Menezes

Should we adopt a BYOD model where students bring their own devices to class or a 1:1 program where the school provides each student with one tablet? Before making the investment in technology, I believe there are some important points to consider. I start our reflection with a quote by Chris Lehman (2010), where he...Read More

Educational Technology, Reflections about Education, Technology

BYOD, tablets, tech integration, technology

Can they have been being seized?

19 de abril de 2014

by Higor Cavalcante

Hello everyone! I want to start this month’s post apologizing for my… silence last month. I’ve got only myself to blame – anyone writing about organization skills out there? – and can just promise it won’t happen again. Scout’s honor. So let me pick up from where we left off last time: I ended by...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

language development, language development for teachers

Eating People is Wrong

18 de abril de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

I picked this title from Goodreads‘ weird book titles. By the way, the title above is from a book by English author and academic Malcom Bradbury (1932-2000), whom I have never read and whose book I am now curious about. The reason why I picked a random title for my post was because I wanted...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills, Vocabulary

Creativity as an Asset in language Teaching

17 de abril de 2014

by Vivian Magalhães

Creativity is certainly a desired trait for teachers to have, especially nowadays, when we have to compete with much more appealing sources of knowledge. But what is creativity? Is it innate? Can we do anything to enhance it? Well, these are some of the questions I plan on answering at the next Tesol Convention in...Read More

Teacher Development

cooperative work, creativity, ideas, imagination, routine

Twitter for Professional Development

15 de abril de 2014

by Carla Arena

In my last post, I focused on giving Twitter a chance. Before saying No, try a resounding YES! And if I haven´t convinced you last time, how about considering Twitter as your daily professional development hub? For most ELT conferences, there are great tweets coming from the backchannel. Educators who share the resources of...Read More

Educational Technology, Teacher Development, Technology

conferences, ed tech, Twitter, twitter search, twitter tips

Revisiting ELT Mantras #3: Visual learners need to see things, kinaesthetic learners need to do things.

14 de abril de 2014

by Damian Willians

Think of a baby. What is it you associate with it most – the smell? The sound of the baby crying? Perhaps you think about how it feels to hold a baby, or even just what it looks like? The chances are that most people reading this (assuming there’s more than one!) will have answered...Read More

Teacher Development

elt mantras, learning styles, multiple intelligences, nlp, pseudo-science

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