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A vida não é um cursinho de inglês…

22 de outubro de 2015

Esta semana, surfando na internet, me deparei com um meme bastante bem humorado que me chamou a atenção, arrancando aquele sorriso típico de quem admite para si mesmo: ‘genial!’ Eis aqui o dito cujo: Não obstante o riso quase que inevitável, por de trás do bom humor (através de um símile que faz alusão ao estereótipo...Read More

Classroom Management, Pronunciation, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, communication, EFL, elt mantras, intelligibility, professional development, pronunciation

Listen to me!

3 de julho de 2015

by Dominic Walters

I was giving a lesson the other day to a group of students on the topic of pet hates. The students had to make a list of their pet hates and then compare with their partner in order to find out if they had anything in common. I then asked the learners what some of...Read More

Classroom Experiences

Active listening, communication, pet hates

A lot from a little VI

26 de setembro de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

In my last post here I looked at a monologue from a non-native speaker of English, Dani and analysed what made him a proficient, fluent speaker (see A lot from a little V). The interesting thing about his monologue is that its sophisticated quality does not derive from grammatical or lexical complexity but rather from...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

communication, language, strategies

Images and real materials

21 de setembro de 2014

by Thalya Goldfeld

We are constantly becoming more and more visual. Our social media communication includes sharing images. We share pictures, we comment on pictures, we like pictures. It’s all very simple and immediate. Using picture books with small children is a way in which they can use simple language communication skills. They can simply like, share and...Read More

Classroom Experiences

communication, images, visual

A lot from a little V

25 de julho de 2014

by Ben Goldstein

Continuing my series on less is more. Today, and in the following posts, we will look at how much can be discovered about spoken language from watching a monologue of a mere 200 words. In this case, the monologue is given by Dani, a proficient non-native speaker of English from Barcelona. Before reading the rest...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

communication, language, strategies, video

TEACHING PRODUCTIVE SKILLS – Speaking

11 de junho de 2014

by Roseli Serra

Communication between humans is an extremely complex and ever-changing phenomenon, but there are certain generalisations that we can make about the majority of communicative events and these will have particular relevance for the learning and teaching of languages. Learning to speak a foreign language is much more complex than knowing its grammatical and semantic rules....Read More

Skills

communication, communicative purpose, conversation, speaking

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

Pronunciation – prioritizing is paramount

20 de fevereiro de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

The teaching of English pronunciation is such a challenge. Maybe because there is so much to accomplish that we often feel overwhelmed, and perhaps even insecure of our own abilities to give learners what they need. Most of us will let the course books tell us what to do and when to do it, as...Read More

Pronunciation

communication, focus, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation, teaching

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