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

27 de setembro de 2018

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

2 kinds of noticing tasks

12 de agosto de 2016

by Luis Otávio Barros

1. Why is noticing even a buzzword, anyway? Noticing in language learning is perhaps ELT’s most user-friendly buzzword. To have a vague understanding of what it is, you don’t need to delve into the works of Rod Ellis, Peter Skehan or even Richard Schmidt, whose 1990 study essentially put the term on the map. Perhaps...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition

grammar, Identities, Second-language acquisition

Lost in Translation – O uso da tradução na sala de aula

14 de abril de 2016

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos e todas! Para este post de hoje, resolvi trazer um pouco à baila um assunto que tem a ver com uma das minhas atividades profissionais relacionadas à língua inglesa. Sou tradutor, atualmente trabalhando mais com livros de RPG (para saber um pouco mais sobre isso, leia meu post). Entretanto, sempre que posso,...Read More

Vocabulary

grammar, reading, skills, tradução, translation, vocabulary, writing

Une Tomate Rouge and How Languages Work

18 de dezembro de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

1. Une Tomate Rouge Less than a month ago I decided to take up French and I am already being faced with big challenges: I had assumed that languages close to your own in the language tree should not be too hard to learn, so I picked...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, language development, learning styles, skype, teaching styles

Teachers and Grammar

21 de outubro de 2014

by Henrick Oprea

“Over the years, language teachers have alternated between favoring teaching approaches that focus primarily on language use and those that focus on language forms or analysis. The alternation has been due to a fundamental disagreement concerning whether one learns to communicate in a second language by communicating in that language (such as in an immersion...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

grammar, teacher development, teaching, teaching grammar

Revisiting ELT Mantras #8: 4 types of phrasal verbs

14 de outubro de 2014

by Damian Willians

As a Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST) who didn’t learn any English grammar at school, it wasn’t until I started training as a teacher and then teaching that I really started to get to grips with the English grammatical – and later lexical – system. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been a point where...Read More

Grammar, Language Acquisition, Teacher Development, Vocabulary

grammar, language, lexis, multi word verbs, phrasal verbs

The hazy line between lexis and grammar

11 de agosto de 2014

by Luis Otávio Barros

This post is a short account of two lessons I taught in 2002 which helped me to make sense of something I’d read about in the late 90s, but couldn’t get my head around. Not until then anyway. If you’ve been following me for some time, you know that I’m a big believer in experiential...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary

grammar, lexical approach, lexis, teaching chunks

iTeacher 2.0 – An app a day…

13 de julho de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá, pessoal! Lá, no agora distante, primeiro post que fiz para este blog, prometi que iria falar de alguns aplicativos para dispositivos móveis, os famosos apps. Pois bem, como sou bem pragmático, vamos direto ao assunto: seguem, abaixo, algumas dicas de programas que podem ser baixados, gratuitamente, para qualquer dispositivo que suporte iOS, o sistema...Read More

Educational Technology, Games, Grammar, Lesson Ideas, Technology

Android, app, game, grammar, iOS, spelling

Revisiting ELT Mantras #4: Exceptions to the rule

14 de maio de 2014

by Damian Willians

Solo by Thomas Leth-Olsen CC BY-SA 2.0 Complete the following sentences: 1 Some is for positive sentences, and any is for negatives and questions. Except … 2 Present tenses refer to the present, and past tenses refer to the past. Except … How many exceptions to to the above ‘rules’ could you think of in,...Read More

Grammar, Teacher Development

elt mantras, exceptions, grammar, grammar mcnuggets, rules

Learning to Grammar

3 de abril de 2014

by Dominic Walters

Three private students of mine recently proclaimed that they believed they had become less fluent since the beginning of our lessons a little over two months ago. They were naturally preoccupied given that they were paying good money to improve their English. Needless to say, I had to put their minds at ease, and it...Read More

Grammar, Skills

Accuracy, fluency, grammar, skills, teaching

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