Assessment: attitudes, practices and needs. The Farmer and the Fortune Teller: Using stories to teach grammar – Jason Anderson – Teacher, teacher educator and author. Some of us love grammar lessons, but others… If you, or your learners, fall into the second category, one great way to make grammar meaningful, interesting and even edifying is to adapt stories to include a little grammar that you can then extract and analyse.
Stories provide for ‘Context, Analysis and Practice’ (C-A-P: something I’ll be talking about more at IATEFL Glasgow 2017, watch this space). Here’s how you can use them: Context – Live listening If you’re confident telling the story yourself, you can turn it into a listening activity even if you don’t have an audio player or speakers. Analysis – Noticing and understanding It’s useful at this stage to give them a copy of the story, and get them to underline examples of key words, tenses or sentences that you want them to notice.
Practice built-in! A particular advantage of using stories is that once you’ve done the analysis, you can use the same story for the practice. Putting Teacher Action Research Into Action. Personally, I just view it as a teacher systematically putting a simplified version of the Scientific Method to use in his/her classroom:
Sense of humour. How many syllabi include the ability to tell or understand a joke?
Yet understanding the sense of humour of a people is a key element of understanding the culture and language and perhaps even more importantly of developing relationships with people from that country. Humour and culture Humour and classroom dynamics A few ideas When the laughter stops Conclusion. The stress of social media. WhatsApps.
Facebook messages. Texts. Calls. First borns have mental edge, study shows. First-born children’s thinking skills outperform their siblings because they receive more mental stimulation from their parents in their early years, research suggests.
First borns score higher than their siblings in IQ tests as early as age one, the study has found. Although all children received the same levels of emotional support, first-born children received more support with tasks that developed thinking skills. Can we learn a second language like we learned our first? Robert William McCaul, winner (with Marek Kiczkowiak) of the TeachingEnglish blog award, examines the influential ideas of linguist Stephen Krashen, and the implications they have for the language classroom.
Popplet. App per una semplice e intuitiva creazione di mappe mentali. TEFL.com – et tu contra me? by Paulina Woźniak – TEFL Equity Advocates. To be or not to be… I’ve never defined myself as a fighter.
I’ve always followed the rules and believed that if everyone did so, the world would be a wonderful place to live. You might see my attitude as a little bit naïve but I’ve always believed in equality, in the end, we live in the 21st century, we’re getting smarter and more conscious every day. Nevertheless, until very recently I had not seen anything wrong about language schools wanting to hire only native speakers. Create a Book - It's Simple, Free and Fun. How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies. In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong” and “rooted more in superstition than in science.”
That’s a disconcerting message, and hard to believe at first. How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language. What defines who we are?
Our habits? Our aesthetic tastes? Our memories? If pressed, I would answer that if there is any part of me that sits at my core, that is an essential part of who I am, then surely it must be my moral center, my deep-seated sense of right and wrong. Teacher-induced Neuroses: Pronunciation Angst. When it all goes wrong: 6 tell-tale signs you have lost control. Drama techniques to get them talking. 10 common mistakes from non-native English speakers that we should learn to appreciate. Photo: [[^Raúl^]] LANGUAGE IS GIVEN TO US so that we may corrupt it.
Like that time we got rid of the word thou in the 18th century. Or cut off a bit of the word obviously and started saying obvs instead. Or redefined banger, so it didn’t even have anything to do with sausages anymore (though like sausages, banger probably has a shelf-life). Global Digital Citizen Foundation. These 7 Strategies Help You Reach Challenging Students More Effectively One of the most common tasks we have as educators is trying to reach challenging students.
It will happen to all teachers of all levels eventually. 10 Great Critical Thinking Activities That Engage Your Students. How can students own their learning with critical thinking activities they’ll really love? Allowing our students to take stands on issues that matter to them engages the classroom in a way that fosters great critical thinking. Who? What? In the Netherlands, sex ed starts in kindergarten. Watch a class get their charming first lesson. Teacher stress, well-being and stress management - Taking care of yourself so that you can take care of your students.
Schools and teachers are usually very good at thinking about the well-being of their pupils. We consider ourselves to have a duty of care to our pupils. Understanding Research Methods - University of London & SOAS University of London. Perché gli italiani non sanno l’inglese. In tanti, praticamente tutti, studiano la seconda lingua (cioè l’inglese) e spesso la terza (almeno fino alle medie inferiori, per poi perderla alle superiori): il 98,4%.
Noam Chomsky on Language Acquisition and Memory Formation. Noam Chomsky Talks About How Kids Acquire Language & Ideas in an Animated Video by Michel Gondry. These days Noam Chomsky is probably most famous for his consistent, outspoken criticism of U.S. foreign policy. Yet before the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, Chomsky became internationally famous for proposing a novel solution to an age-old question: what does a baby know? Plato argued that infants retain memories of past lives and thus come into this world with a grasp of language. Teacher researchers in action. Shakespeare Manga: Early- or Post-modern? Can we learn a second language like we learned our first? Writing Resources - Avoiding Sexist Language - Hamilton College. Avoiding Sexist Language. Theconversation. David Cameron used an article in The Times and an interview on Radio 4’s Today show to announce £20m of extra funding to provide English lessons for Muslim women in the UK to prevent them from becoming “second-class citizens”.
Is The Flipped Classroom Relevant to ELT? A few myths about speakers of multiple languages. English Teaching Forum Volume 53, Number 4. OECD study: The perils of e-fixation. A new study carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has generated sufficient evidence to say that computers in schools do not necessarily contribute to higher achievement levels by children.
Using Formative Assessment in the Classroom to Monitor Student Learning Development. Presenter. Want to learn faster? Stop multitasking and start daydreaming. Information is being created and disseminated faster than any of us can absorb it. Google estimates that humans have created more information in the past five years than in all of human history - 300 exabytes of information (300,000,000,000,000,000,000) to be precise.
Bilinguals Have Better College Outcomes, Labor Advantages: New Study. Williams - Providing Feedback on ESL Students' Written Assignments. The TEFL Show. Teaching_diary.pdf. Ademic Writing Module. Action research. Recent TEASIG events.