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Self-observation: why not?

2 de abril de 2014

Very soon, I will celebrate my 25th teaching anniversary. This got me thinking about the beginning of my career, what was different then, what is still rather similar and especially how differently (or similarly) I used to teach. How have all these years influenced and shaped the way I teach today? To answer these questions...Read More

Teacher Development

class observation, evaluation, feedback, improvement, peer observation, self-observation

The perks and perils of being a private teacher

1 de abril de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

After having taught at several different schools for a long long time, I’ve been teaching private classes for a while now. I’ve decided to do so so that I could have more flexibility and more time to study and work on different projects. Needless to say, teaching private classes has its own features. Sometimes I...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

career, PLNs, professional development, social networks, teacher development, Twitter

Is technology or teaching the problem?

31 de março de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

This month I’ll be continuing the theme of technology in education and thinking about the impact of technology on young people – our learners and future learners! In 2010 there was an article in the New York Times Magazine called Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction. The title of the article gives you a clue...Read More

Educational Technology

digital media, professional development, technology

An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT (P is for …)

30 de março de 2014

by Dennis Warren

Well, first, apologies to Scott Thornbury for ‘borrowing’ and distorting his title. This is the closest I’ll ever get to his altitude, so forgive my mutant magpie-Icarus act. I present to you the first of the series An A-Z of Dysfunctional ELT – the art of getting things wrong, again and again. Each month, I’ll take a...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

continuing professional development, motivation, professional development, teacher development, training

Three Worst Indiscipline Experiences…

27 de março de 2014

by Laura Miccoli

Hi everyone! Today I address a common teachers’ concern – indiscipline. Research[1] shows that students’ indifference is related to unchallenging teaching practices, to which students negatively react, starting conflicts, such as indiscipline. As a consequence, indiscipline impairs the development of the group because teachers decide refrain from implementing communicative activities not to lose control of...Read More

Classroom Experiences

conflicts, Indiscipline

Falando Sobre Collocation

26 de março de 2014

by Denilso de Lima

O termo collocation já faz parte do cenário de ensino de língua inglesa há um bom tempo. Há na história relatos sobre collocations desde o ano de 1933. Harold Palmer, linguista inglês, é tido como o primeiro a citar tal termo. Na introdução de um de seus livros, ele escreveu: “When a word forms an...Read More

Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

formulaic language, language acquisition; vocabulary, teaching vocabulary, vocabulary

Extracting a lot from a Little III: Trailers

25 de março de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

Continuing this series of exercises based on the concept of less is more, this month we turn to the movie trailer as a resource for the language classroom Trailers have become omnipresent in digital media and gain more views on YouTube than almost any other genre, except the music video. They are fascinating to analyse...Read More

Resources

film, genre, intertitles, lexical features, The Social Network, trailer, videos

Lexical Mathematics 1: Flesh + Bones = Added Bonus

24 de março de 2014

by Adriano Zanetti

It is widely known that some approaches to teaching in the past consciously placed vocabulary as a secondary feature of language. In other words, one was made to think of grammar as the bones of the language whilst vocabulary as the flesh to be added. However, Harmer (1997) has a point when he states that...Read More

Vocabulary

collocations, fluency and accurary., lexical features and challenges, lexical items, mental lexicons, quality exposure, teaching vocabulary

Mind the Gap

24 de março de 2014

by cecilialemos

In a plenary delivered at a symposium in Turkey in December 2012, Lindsay Clandfield talked about education and how things have changed (especially because of technology, globalization and the how both have changed social and work relations and demands.) He talked about how experts, academics and everybody else connected to education said there had to...Read More

Reflections about Education

action, change, David Perkins, education

The Power of Story Telling

21 de março de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

While waiting for a jazz class that wasn’t going to happen, my ten year old daughter and her friend start knocking on the door. “They bang and cry, let me in! I am the big bad wolf!” It must be over half her lifetime since she has heard the story The Three Little Pigs and...Read More

Language Acquisition

narrative, story telling

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