Daniel Shiro – First of all, let me apologise for the rather grim title. I could not find softer words and, to be honest, I don’t even think I should. We all know and agree that teachers have the power to help learners achieve their goals and their…
Jane Godwin Coury –
Introduction
Teaching advanced students on a one-to-one basis can be a privilege both for the student and the teacher. The student has the teacher´s full time attention and has the opportunity to ask any niggling questions. The teacher can…
Gladys Garcia –
Critical thinking is one of the so-called 21st century skills, it means, it is one of the skills required from professionals in the 21st century. However, it is not only that; it is a life skill. First of all, we must consider what critical thinking is.
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…
Choosing and preparing a song for a class activity may be a hard task. Here are some tips on how to select and prepare a song activity, not necessarily in the order presented. Songs have to be appropriate to the level of proficiency of students and intelligible;
Take…
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.
