Introduction Every teacher knows that learner engagement is paramount to any learning experience. Without engaged students, all one can hope for is a well structured lecture to a sea of inattentive ears and utterly passive students. In this article, we will explore what I…
Your brain – every brain – is a work in progress. It is a plastic. From the day we are born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining as a function of how we use it.Michael Merzenich The objective of this article is to…
The art of teaching is the art of assisting Discovery.(Mark Van Doren) Techniques you might use to motivate and energize a classroom.Personal experience shows that a motivated and passion Teacher is always the key for a successful class.We must get the students’…
Since last week I have been taking a course about the movie The Godfather (1972), one of my all-time favorites! I often get emotional when watching it because for me, it represents my intense love for the cinema. I do not know if you have seen The Godfather before, but this…
The use of authentic materials in language classes has been around for a while. As someone who learned English before YouTube was a thing, I have probably seen more excerpts of Friends episodes in class than on TV. The abundance of available sources has meant that it is even…
Poucas coisas são, ao mesmo tempo, tão desafiadoras e tão recompensadoras quanto a criação de um pequeno ser humano. São noites insones, ligações para os médicos, descoberta de receitas e métodos de introdução alimentar, preparação do quarto, enxoval… isso…
“What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?” Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice seems to be claiming for a book with pictures and probably meaningful words. Would that be a picturebook? And what is a…
Quando penso em Multiletramentos, logo me vem à mente a palavra texto. Então, me provoco a pensar sobre o que texto é, porque quando muitos de nós – pelo menos, aqui no Ocidente – pensamos sobre isso, nos lembramos de uma página impressa, escrita da esquerda…
A thought-provoking question for teachers For most of my teaching life, speaking lessons worked somehow like this: I would teach a grammar or vocabulary lesson, and at the end of this, students would have perhaps ten to fifteen minutes of “interaction”, and this was…
