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Speaking: how much of “controlled practice” is actually “contrived practice”?

13 de novembro de 2017

[This is a reflection; I am not here to give you answers nor do I have any. I would like to pick your brain about something that has been bothering me for long.] The first time I went to Argentina was in 2010. Getting there, my former boyfriend, having learned a little of the language...Read More

Speaking and Spoken Language

Controlled practice, speaking, Spoken grammar

Oops! A lesson on embarrassing stories

5 de novembro de 2017

by Natália Guerreiro

If you are suffering from Novemberitis and need a comical interlude or just an idea for a lesson, here’s an integrated-skills lesson plan for B2 learners. The topic is embarrassing stories and students will read about it to get in the topic, listen to a celebrity telling her own stories and talk throughout. The main...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Speaking and Spoken Language

conversation classes, embarrassing stories, integrated skills, lesson plan, Listening, narrative theory, reading, speaking, storytelling, telling stories

Like, Comment, Share

22 de outubro de 2017

by Paulo Torres

Would you like to Like, Comment and Share? This is the activity I mentioned on my last blog post about the three key features to teach speaking. These are the instructions. Preparation: cardstock paper, popsicle sticks, a pencil, templates, scissors and glue. Tell students they are going to have a group discussion about ‘dilemmas’ and...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills

lesson-ideas, skills, speaking

Speaking Assessment

9 de outubro de 2017

by Beatriz Meneguetti

Teaching Young Learners have always interested me and assessing them comes hand in hand with it, obviously, so, for sometime now, I have been researching this area and developed a work on speaking assessment which I would like to share with you. In order not to bore you all with an ginormous reading, I have...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Reflections about Education

assessment, speaking, young_learners

We study, We teach, We learn

22 de setembro de 2017

by Paulo Torres

I have been an English teacher for almost 23 years. I also worked as a pedagogical coordinator at language schools for many years. After all this time, these experiences have helped me understand what students needed to get the most out of speaking activities and how teachers could help them take part in speaking activities...Read More

Career, Teacher Development

CPD, professional_development, speaking

Is Your English Fully Operational? – Accurate, Fluent and Fluid Speaking

24 de agosto de 2017

by Adriano Zanetti

Scarcella and Oxford (1992) mention that ‘a learner will basically need to develop competences in order to become proficient in an L2 – grammatical competence, socialinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence.’ I bet that at the some point of your teaching career you have come across that student who wants to learn only to...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Speaking and Spoken Language

Accuracy, fluency, fluidity, speaking, speaking skills

Revisiting ELT Mantras #6: Reading aloud

14 de agosto de 2014

by Damian Willians

Picture the scene: There I was, a shy 13-year-old boy, dressed in an itchy, ill-fitting school uniform in the middle of a German language class. Our teacher, Mrs. Dawson, a strict woman who ruled the classroom with an iron fist, is going round the class calling out people to read chunks of a text out...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Classroom Management, Reflections about Education, Skills, Speaking and Spoken Language, Teacher Development

EFL, elt, esl, reading, reading aloud, speaking

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

A lesson for all seasons

6 de junho de 2014

by Ceri Jones

This lesson plan is one for any time, any where, any students… 1 Show the four images below. Ask your students to choose one and think (not talk) about why that particular image appeals to them. Allow them plenty of thinking time. 2 Tell them about the picture you choose, but don’t say...Read More

Language Acquisition

Language acquisition, sensations, speaking