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

24 de maio de 2018

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

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

Whose meaning is it anyway?*

5 de janeiro de 2018

by Natália Guerreiro

“What’s the meaning of…” seems to be a perfectly innocent question. But language is never innocent, is it? I give you exhibit A, the word white-shoe: According to The American Heritage, “white-shoe adj. Of or being a long-established business known for reputable service and a wealthy clientele: “took a job at… [a] pronouncedly white-shoe investment-banking firm” (Connie Bruck)”...Read More

Reflections about Education

dictionaries, dictionary, ideologies, ideology, PARSNIPs, vocabulary, words

´Americanization´ or ´Americanisation´?

3 de agosto de 2017

by Dominic Walters

‘Trousers’ or ‘pants’? ‘Lift’ or ‘elevator’? ‘Colour’ or ‘color’? ‘Theatre’ or ‘theater’? Which lexical item do you use? Which form of spelling do you opt for? Do you teach ‘American’ or ‘British’ English? Or both? How do you decide what to teach? Does it matter? Well, according to some recent research, it does matter, and...Read More

Vocabulary

British vs American, lexical, spelling, vocabulary

Repeat, repeat, repeat

13 de julho de 2017

by Dominic Walters

I want to talk about Spaced Repetition. What it is, how it applies to language learning and what we can do to cater for it in our teaching. First of all, let me tell you how I normally acquire new vocabulary in Portuguese. I come across an unfamiliar word in a conversation or in a text...Read More

Language Acquisition

Repetition, spaced repetition, vocabulary

Of work and idioms

6 de março de 2017

by Ricardo Barros

A couple of years ago, Damian Williams wrote a post explaining why he doesn’t like teaching idiomatic expressions. I wrote a response to that, as I strongly disagreed with him. However, a recent conversation with another teacher made me rethink that a bit. Here’s the situation: I have two private students, both of whom work...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Vocabulary

Brazilian learners, communication, EFL, elt, language, vocabulary

If you need to write, write!

22 de dezembro de 2016

by Teresa Carvalho

There are some funny thoughts that occur to us, language teachers. We want our students to become fluent speakers, we want them to be proficient readers, we want them to become effective listeners, and finally, we want them to be great writers in a foreign language. All four skills neatly packed and delivered in a...Read More

Learner Autonomy

learner autonomy, practice, reading, success, vocabulary, writing skills

A Word Atlas of the Mind

3 de maio de 2016

by Dominic Walters

There was some interesting news last week. Scientists at Berkeley University in the United States have mapped out how the brain organises language. Their ‘semantic atlas’ shows how the meaning of vocabulary is organised into different regions of the brain. In the past, it was believed that information about words’ meanings was represented in a...Read More

Vocabulary

language, semantic system, vocabulary

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

What’s in a name

6 de abril de 2016

by Dominic Walters

Something a student of mine said recently got me thinking. She told me that her English teacher at school had told her, and the class, that you should never translate the names of monuments and landmarks into the target language. Therefore, according to the teacher, the Pao de Acucar must never be translated as Sugar...Read More

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