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Online Lessons – Using Task-based Language Teaching – Part 3

25 de maio de 2020

The use of this current communicative approach is very common in the English lesson field. We always tend to use a task as the topic of the lesson and ask students to perform this task at the end of this lesson. As the name states TBLT, also known as TBI (task-based instruction) focuses on the...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences

-taskbasedteaching, -TBLT, bilingual-education, career, challenges, Classroom experiences, critical thinking, EFL, elt, Language acquisition

We don’t live in boxes

30 de setembro de 2019

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

Chaos. That’s what the world is all about. We spend our whole lives trying to organize what cannot be organized. We want to predict the unpredictable. We believe we can have control over our lives but there is no control. We have been doing the same with Education for centuries. We try to put knowledge...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education

bilingual-education, chaos, language learning, learning process, teaching

Asking the right questions: what Inquiry-Based Learning can do for Bilingual Education

5 de julho de 2019

by Renata Condi

We need to be different to succeed – or to keep being successful after some time. That’s a rather upsetting idea, but it seems to be the norm when it comes to the ever-crescent and competitive market of bilingual schools. So what does ‘being different’ imply? Sometimes, it is about being bold when it comes...Read More

Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education in Brazil, bilingual-education, Inquiry-based learning

The World is Bilingual

14 de abril de 2019

by Ana Carolina Calil

It’s a typical Saturday at the food court and the family in line in front of you is ready to order: the youngest one talks to her mom in fluent Spanish, the middle one talks on the phone in English and replies to his mom in Spanish, while the mom mixes Spanish with English in...Read More

Bilingual Education

-eflteacher, bilingual-education, bilingualism

The 21st century bilingual teacher – Who Are You?

22 de março de 2019

by Renata Condi

There is a lot of talk about education in the 21st century. There is talk… that we need to embrace the 21st century and become 21st century teachers. that we need to help students learn and develop skills and competences that are necessary for the new world. that we have to do so while embracing...Read More

Bilingual Education

21st century teacher, bilingual-education, bilingualism, translanguaging

To CLIL or Not To CLIL in Bilingual Education?

24 de fevereiro de 2019

by Renata Condi

Ten years ago, you were working as an English teacher at a school, and your worries were how to help students develop their productive and receptive skills. Your lesson was basically focused on reading, writing, listening, and speaking, even if you followed innovative trends, included different technologies and authentic materials. Then, something happened. You heard...Read More

Bilingual Education

bilingual-education, CLIL

Should we go against nature?

22 de janeiro de 2019

by Juan Luis Granato

When children wake up the first thing they want to do is to play. Every mum and dad can assure this, especially when their children are very young. I believe that this ‘playing’ is essential for their learning and if we focus on the ‘playing’ and guide the ‘games’, the results are remarkable. Can we...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education

bilingual-education, reflections about education

The WH- for Bilingual Education in Brazil – what, why, how

12 de dezembro de 2018

by Renata Condi

Just take a quick stroll around the town where you live. How many “bilingual education” ads do you find? From small towns in remote areas to big metropolis, it does seem that a huge number of schools have gone bilingual. But are they all the same? Do they have the same reasons for doing so?...Read More

Bilingual Education

Bilingual Education in Brazil, bilingual-education, bilingualism

What I have been learning from my baby boy – part 3

27 de novembro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

Murilo’s journey to bilingualism has been an enormous learning opportunity for me, and an extraordinary field for me to put into practice many theories related to bilingualism and bilingual education in the 21st century. Murilo, now 4 years old, masters the comprehension of the English language typically spoken by me. There are some terms that...Read More

Reflections about Education

bilingual-education, bilingualism

People are still struggling with the role of Grammar in bilingual education…

27 de setembro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

It is amazing how difficult it is for us to let go of old habits, old beliefs, traditional ways of doing things. That is not different with teachers… although one might expect it to be. Recent and not so recent studies about language acquisiton have pointed out the importance of acquiring a language in a...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría, Teacher Development

bilingual-education, grammar, language awareness

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