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“Music”, not only “songs” in class

7 de março de 2014

The other day I was struggling to chose a topic to discuss about with the teachers in my school. It was somehow funny as things happened – two of the teachers came, on the very same day, asking about ideas and rationale for using music in class. Well, this extract is not exactly on how...Read More

Classroom Experiences

activation of brain, attention, BrainGym, concentration, Music

Reflection Makes Perfect

6 de março de 2014

by Anderson Maia

The globalized world in the twenty-first-century has brought the English language to the status of lingua franca as countries worldwide use it as the main means of communication for social, economic, and educational purposes. For that reason, the learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) has become a growing issue and a variety of...Read More

Teacher Development

professional development, reflection, reflective practice, teacher

Carnival

6 de março de 2014

by Ceri Jones

Here’s a second seasonal lesson idea. This time based on Carnival. In Brazil the holidays have just come to an end, and in my adopted hometown of Cádiz we’re only half way through! I first used this lesson idea with a large class of mixed-level high school students but it can work with a number...Read More

Lesson Ideas

carnival, lesson plan, zero preparation

Anything goes

3 de março de 2014

by Dominic Walters

They say that we get more conservative as we get older, that we lose our youthful idealism and replace it with mature resignation, that we become cynical, and that we are less willing to break the rules and become more prone to following a set of rigid routines. However, I don’t think this is necessarily...Read More

Teacher Development

CELTA, maxims, teacher training

It’s only English…

2 de março de 2014

by elainehodgson

Last week I happened to read a post in a well-known Brazilian newspaper blog explaining that several students who have been granted scholarships in the program Science without Borders are at risk of an early and compulsory return to Brazil. The reason? They have not achieved the minimum proficiency in English to be able to...Read More

Career

EFL, language proficiency, Science without Borders

Summarizing in a nutshell

1 de março de 2014

by Michele Schwertner

Besides being an English teacher, I’ve been an e-moderator for a while now. And one of the first things I learned when I started studying to become one were the concepts of weaving and summarizing. As an e-moderator, I have to populate forums – I have to create several different forum threads where the course...Read More

Educational Technology, Resources, Technology

classroom activity, online resources, summaries

Is this a “literacy revolution”?

1 de março de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello and welcome to March! In 2009 I read an article in Wired magazine that reported on the Stanford Study of Writing and I was very struck by this quote from the leader of the study, Dr Andrea Lunsford, who said, “I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which...Read More

Teacher Development, Technology

digital media, teaching writing

Experiences: a window to deeper understandings of classroom events

27 de fevereiro de 2014

by Laura Miccoli

Hi everyone! Have you ever wondered about classroom experiences? About how can they bring an expanded understanding of the teaching and learning process? Starting today, I`ll be contributing with posts on classroom language learning experiences because they can provide a lot of information about what goes on between teachers and students as well as a...Read More

Classroom Experiences

Classroom experiences, interaction, student behaviors

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