Rafael Carpanez –
LAMSIG – Bruna Caltabiano, Christina Riego, Marcelo Dalpino, Rafael Reis, Sergio Monteiro
Leadership and Management SIG aims at: Raising awareness and contributing to the development of good management practices within ELT;
Providing opportunities…
Marcela Cintra – 19
Some weeks ago I was talking to a colleague about going to conferences as she said she was not very fond of such events. Her reasons were very plausible: more of the same, an enormous amount of money she could be spending on something else…
Louise Potter – The truth of this simple sentence always strikes me when I think about our profession:
” We are not teachers, we become teachers”.
Teaching is like a never ending story. We never get to the bottom of it. There is always something new…
Em entrevista, Adriana Weigel, autora de livro da Cengage Learning, fala sobre as melhores práticas e os principais obstáculos para ensinar o idioma nas instituições de ensino brasileiras. Por muito tempo, o ensino de inglês foi desprestigiado na sala de aula.
Daniel Shiro –
How many times have you been through the following steps? You give instructions to set up an activity
You monitor learners from a distance
You stop the learners and the activity
You ask learners for their answers.
You provide correction.
You move on…
Daniel Shiro –
Reflecting on your own teaching, your beliefs and your skills is never easy. It is however the alternative to spending years and years teaching the same way, with the same examples and the same results – which are sometimes far from the results you…
Daniela A. Meyer –
You may have already noticed that nowadays several ELT materials are corpus-informed. Do you know what that means, and what exactly the difference is? First of all, what is a corpus? As Michael McCarthy points out, “a corpus is a collection of…
José Roberto A. Igreja –
Blow the whistle on to report someone’s wrongdoing (denunciar alguém; “dedar”)
Unfortunately there aren’t always people willing to blow the whistle on law-breakers.
Infelizmente, nem sempre há pessoas dispostas a denunciar os…
Jane Godwin Coury –
Here are two activities about interesting topics that you can use with B2 level students to improve their vocabulary. The first one is about the famous Glastonbury Festival which takes place in the UK every year. The second activity is a word…
