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Making it Visible: Shedding Light on What Happens Beyond the Book

29 de agosto de 2023

Multiple choice: Your kid came home singing in English and you: a) record a video and share it in the family group chat b) congratulate their English teacher c) believe the school’s bilingual program is a success d) try to find the song in the coursebook A school is a place filled with stimuli,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Language Acquisition

education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition

Not about fish

21 de novembro de 2022

by Ana Carolina Calil

In Biology, fish shoal (/shohl/), stay together, for social reasons, deriving many benefits from it: defense against predators, enhanced foraging success, and even higher success in finding a mate. Fish even choose shoalmates of their own species, similar to them in age, size and appearance. When a group of fish swims in the same direction...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education, Sin categoría

Language acquisition, student behavior

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

25 de maio de 2020

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

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

Online Lessons – Using Communicative Language Teaching – Part 2

18 de maio de 2020

by Beatriz Solino de Francisco

Coronavirus day 3.648: It feels like that, right? At least, it does for me. Since this has all begun and we started teaching remotely, I have been re-reading all my academic books, trying to find various other approaches and/or methods for dealing with “emergency remote teaching” in a way that lessons will be meaningful, not...Read More

#StaySafe, Classroom Experiences

-communicativeapproach, career, challenges, Classroom experiences, education, EFL, elt, Language acquisition, professional development

CLIL is the New Black

13 de março de 2020

by Ana Carolina Calil

Sunny afternoon in the capital of Brazil, a group of teachers awaits for the presentation of the new coursebooks. Curious eyes on the presenters, colorful boxes on the shelves and the expectation to end the day with grids and tables filled with content that would translate into a year’s worth of teaching. To their surprise,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

CLIL, future_trends_in_education, Language acquisition, methods, reflection, Second-language acquisition

The Teenage Brain: How It Affects the Learning Process

16 de março de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

As a teacher, I have often resorted to different methodologies and activities to make students more interested in my class. However, lately I have been curious about the learning processes of a language and I have been eager to understand in depth how especially teenagers go through such processes. Consequently, the following question has popped...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition

education, Language acquisition, learning, Second-language acquisition, teaching, teaching teenagers, teenagers

Dealing With Parents’ High Levels of Expectations

16 de fevereiro de 2019

by Henrique Zamboni

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

Enhancing Lexical Strategies – Learning By Heart or Memory Habit Formation?

24 de maio de 2018

by Adriano Zanetti

It goes without saying that vocabulary is one aspect language acquisition that plays an important role when learning one mother’s tongue, let alone a foreign language. I have often had learners saying that they can fairly get by grammatical structures and the real factor holding them back is how to put words within this lexical...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Vocabulary

Classroom experiences, intelligibility, Language acquisition, motivation, Second-language acquisition, vocabulary

Para ser fluente é preciso pensar no idioma?

22 de novembro de 2016

by Marcelo de Cristo

Pensar é algo natural para todos nós. Segundo a Wikipedia, é uma faculdade do nosso sistema mental através da qual modelamos o mundo para nele podermos transitar e agir segundo a nossa vontade. Pensar vem de fábrica, ou seja, é grátis. Por esse motivo, não se aprende a pensar. Se é assim, por quê então...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Reflections about Education

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, esl, fluency, Language acquisition, Second-language acquisition, Young learners

Sobre “yellow and red” e a dificuldade de prestarmos atenção ao que falamos

22 de agosto de 2016

by Marcelo de Cristo

Durante a cerimônia de encerramento dos Jogos Olímpicos do Rio de Janeiro, transmitida ao vivo para o mundo inteiro, o Brasil deu mais uma prova de que o nosso povo é capaz de realizar grandes feitos. O espetáculo estava uma lindeza só e tudo transcorria maravilhosamente bem: apresentações impecáveis dos nossos melhores artistas, espetáculos de...Read More

Language Acquisition, Language testing & assessment, Reflections about Education, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

Brazilian learners, EFL, elt, error correction, feedback, fluency, inglês, Language acquisition, teacher development

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