Qualquer pessoa que vê o nome de Amadeu Marques como um dos coautores de um dicionário bilíngue inglês-português já aumenta as expectativas sobre a obra. Afinal, Amadeu traz uma bagagem incomparável no desenvolvimento de dicionários de inglês para falantes de…
Vinicius Nobre: Jack, you have worn many different hats throughout your incredible career, contributing to the ELT community in Brazil and worldwide in several ways. Can you tell us a little bit more about your professional ventures so far? How did it all start? What are…
In 2020, the creation of the Brazilian Bilingual Curriculum has crowned years of research and hard work to implement a thorough and well-established bilingual education syllabus to be adopted throughout the country. However, bilingualism is still surrounded by…
The other day I was reading this article on millennials’ identity crisis and I came across a statement that got me thinking and spurred the will to write this piece. It read, “Millennials mainly derive identity through either work or romantic relationships.” –…
Evil stepmothers and witches, terrifying giants, lurking wolves, royal characters and candid fairies have lured us for centuries and centuries through fairy tales. What is so enchanting about them? Are they still relevant in the XXI century? How do children benefit from…
Lexis is a technical term that refers to the vocabulary of a language. When teaching a language, we should focus on helping our students improve their range of vocabulary in order to communicate more effectively. McCarten starts her book (2007) by asking how many words there…
Jack Scholes: First of all, could you please tell us a bit about your background and the work you have been doing teaching and managing educational projects? Gavin Biggs: I first started teaching on my gap year before university! I was living in a Tibetan Buddhist…
Teenagers are oftentimes seen as a difficult crowd. They seem to find everything boring, are too concerned with the opinion of their peers, never turn their camera on, and their questions give the impression that they are always challenging teachers. Finding anecdotes to…
Lesson planning has always been at the heart of teaching for me. I remember my early days of teaching and how long it would take me to write a simple lesson plan which, in all honesty, could not even be called a plan as it was but a list of engaging activities that would get…
