Teaching a new language to children is often an incredibly rewarding experience. Studies have shown that when children start learning a new language at an early age, they’re more likely to quickly acquire a native-like level. As a teacher, this is exciting to watch! On…
The English language teaching profession has undergone a sea change as a result of the proliferation of educational technologies. As the technology has become more sophisticated and is embedded in more and more aspects of the teaching and learning experience, there have been…
TO BLAB / BLABBER TAGARELAR, FALAR MUITO I did try to listen, but she just kept blabbering on. Eu até tentei prestar atenção, mas ela matraqueava a não mais poder. Quem fala demais e/ou conta segredos é um blabbermouth. TO SHOOT THE BREEZE / BULL (US) JOGAR CONVERSA…
There is a growing and vocal debate about the usefulness or desirability of using students’ L1 in language learning situations. Past language teaching methods, from immersion to foreign‐language teaching, have placed a strong emphasis on “target language only” in the…
by Lyle French and Karen Fraser Colby de Mattos L&K:
Tara you have been at the Centre for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition (CARLA) for many years. While there you have researched,
visited and written aboutcontent-based language…
1 – Mobile learning in the EFL-classroom. A quick overview. Mobile devices and their applications are not cutting-edge technology anymore. They are part of our everyday lives. The number of edtech websites, printed and digital materials has drastically risen, many…
The term ‘bilingual school’ is a rather broad label used in
Brazil to refer to various models of second language teaching and learning.
Most progammes that fall under the blanket term ‘bilingual education’ promise
to educate learners in two languages with three…
JS: Luiz, thanks for agreeing to speak to us. First
question: How did you get into coursebook writing? LOB: I became a teacher in 1990, and way back then, to
my coordinators’ despair, I was already writing my own handouts
(=photocopies!), flashcards and OHTs to…
We started using Optimise
B1 in the first semester of 2018 in our Intermediate course. Later, at the
beginning of the second semester in the same year, we adopted Optimise A2 in our Pre-Intermediate
courses. Students at Cultura Inglesa will complete A2 and B1 levels of the…
