Some time ago, I wrote about some mistakes teachers make and their negative effects on their students’ progress. Let’s take a look at other examples, shall we? English only from day one
This is scary for beginners. When we acquire our mother tongue, we spend a…
To my point of view, Brazil has placed too much emphasis on the teaching of reading comprehension for such a long time. Only now do we start do find material (coursebooks) that give some attention to speaking, for example (listening is still a very limited skill in them).
Students who have not reached a good level of English before the high-intermediate stage are subject to making developmental mistakes, of which the following is an example:
‘Do you can help me?’
Students love relying on generalization, because this gives them a sense of…
Você está fazendo Letras, habilitação em inglês, mas gostaria de aperfeiçoar seu CV com qualificações internacionais, porém não está em condições de frequentar um curso de especialização em uma universidade no exterior. Saiba que você pode obter…
Programatics
I’ve been a teacher in English classrooms long enough to know what some students really mean when the say ‘communicating is the most important thing’. This can be rephrased in the lines of ‘As long as I can make myself understood, I do not have to…
The challenges of teaching and learning idiomatic expressions (idioms) - Ricardo Madureira
24/06/2016
Idiomatic expressions pose an exciting challenge to students because their individual words take on a new meaning when the expression is considered as a whole and what is more, some expressions are completely opaque (that is, obscure in meaning), even when the students know…
Ricardo Madureira –
Absolute beginners, unlike the so-called false beginners, are learners who have no previous knowledge whatsoever of the target language they are about to start studying. Teachers will often wrongly assume that some language structures are easier…
Ricardo Madureira –
Some years ago, when I used to attend English Teaching conferences on a more regular basis, I remember hearing from my colleagues in the ELT field something in the lines of “I don’t teach grammar”, and they would say that in a supercilious…
Mistakes teachers make when teaching reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing - Ricardo Madureira
24/03/2016
Ricardo Madureira –
Many teachers of English have not undergone adequate preparation to face the real classroom. They take part in one-week crash training courses and are expected to go to the real world and ‘apply’ what they have been instructed to do, as if the…
