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Dealing With Parents’ High Levels of Expectations

16 de fevereiro de 2019

The other day I was talking to an acquaintance who has a kid that goes to a language school to study English. As this acquaintance knows I am an English teacher, she started opening up to me about her feelings towards her child’s studies and she stated that she “did not feel like her daughter...Read More

Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, challenges, critical thinking, education, Language acquisition, learning, reflection, Second-language acquisition

The Soul Behind The Face – Teachers Making A Difference

24 de janeiro de 2019

by Adriano Zanetti

The academic year is just around the corner and every now and then we tend to start the New Year facing some challenges and the kind. Being an educator is not an easy task, dealing with stressful situations such as routine, and, to add insult to injury, many of us will have to perform a...Read More

Career, Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

challenges, CPD, critical thinking, motivation, reflection

Three things I learnt from writing books for the public sector

2 de outubro de 2018

by elainehodgson

Back in 2011 I was invited to write the general introduction to a series of books for PNLD (Programa Nacional do Livro Didático), a Brazilian government programme that, as most of you may know, distributes books for public schools. It was a detailed introduction, which had to thoroughly explain the concept behind the book and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Inclusive Teaching, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, challenges, Classroom experiences, critical thinking, EFL, elt, engagement, learning, materials, reflection

Should presentations in Portuguese be allowed in ELT Conferences in Brazil?

2 de setembro de 2018

by elainehodgson

Scene 1: Big conference in Brazil. The speaker, a Brazilian, goes onto the stage to begin her plenary session. While she speaks, you notice she makes some mistakes, pronunciation mistakes, grammar mistakes, but the content of her presentation is relevant and she manages to get her message across. At the end of her talk, you...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

career, challenges, conferences, CPD, critical thinking, EFL, ELF, intelligibility, language, professional development, reflection, teacher development

Is there a genre for this text?

5 de julho de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

There’s a woman with a standing microphone next to a wooden stool on a stage. She speaks for about an hour and the paying audience laughs every now and then. What is this? It’s a stand-up comedy. Or maybe it isn’t. Oftentimes, when we are working on skills in a language class, we treat genres...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills

critical thinking, discourse analysis, genre, genre theory

Dealing with criticism

2 de julho de 2018

by elainehodgson

Criticism hurts. Hence, it can be stressful, tense and sometimes traumatic. Still, it is such a natural part of life, including professional life, that knowing how to make the best out of it is an important skill for us to keep emotionally healthy. Below I list a few aspects to consider and that can prove...Read More

Career, Classroom Management, ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, challenges, critical thinking, education, feedback, professional development, teacher development

English on a daily-basis: making it happen!

21 de maio de 2018

by Lenora Haranaka

At the beginning of a new semester, learners are usually excited to get started, enthusiastic about learning and with high hopes of finally achieving that much sought-after fluency. As the course unfolds, so does life: learners have to juggle work, school and their own personal lives, coping with everything at the same time. And as...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Technology, Vocabulary

challenges, classroom activity, Classroom experiences, creativity, critical thinking, educational technology, engagement, motivation, vocabulary

How can we empower our female students?

13 de março de 2018

by Gabriela Fróes

We have recently celebrated Women’s Day. As I walked to and from work this last week, I kept thinking about the female students that I have. Their names sometimes carry a lot of meaning: the victorious Vitoria. The brave Valentina. Lucia, full of light. This reminded me of Esperanza, a strong female character from a...Read More

Reflections about Education

critical thinking, empowerment, equality in ELT, feminism, reflection

A matter of balance – Follow up

2 de fevereiro de 2018

by elainehodgson

A couple of months ago, I wrote about the lack of balance in the past BRAZ-TESOL conferences as far as gender was concerned. Just to refresh our memories, the results were the following[1]: As I stated at the time, it was (and is) not a matter of pointing fingers and finding culprits, but of trying...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

career, challenges, conferences, critical thinking, education, EFL, elt, engagement, feminism, professional development, reflection, teacher development

A matter of balance – women as plenary speakers

2 de novembro de 2017

by elainehodgson

If you have spent some time online in the past months, particularly on Facebook, you may have come across a number of posts followed by hundreds of comments, basically related to gender equality, or lack of it, in ELT events. Gender equality in general is an issue that has been discussed for a long time,...Read More

Career, Reflections about Education

career, challenges, conferences, critical thinking, education, EFL, elt, engagement, professional development, social media, teacher development

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