As educators, it is important to provide learners with cultural repertoire. This will allow them to expand their own knowledge, have access to different types of knowledge, and develop other points of view as they interact in society. When we include different cultures in…
Publicada em 2019 pela Editora Richmond, em parceria com a Fundação Santillana, a obra Educação Bilíngue no Brasil protagoniza o debate sobre temas, rumos e práticas ligadas ao complexo campo da educação em sua interface com a pluralidade linguística e cultural em…
I suppose human beings have always feared the unknown. It has to do with our evolutionary past and our survival instinct before we became Earth’s most dangerous predators. Think about our ancestors walking the plains of Africa without anything but a spear, some sharpened…
Este livro vai fazer você aprender inglês e ao mesmo tempo se divertir com situações embaraçosas e muitas vezes engraçadas. Contando histórias vividas por quem ainda não dominava a língua inglesa, Ulisses Wehby de Carvalho dá diversos exemplos de enganos…
Every teacher of young learners has probably been in a situation where classroom management was not exactly ideal. It may have been a game that made learners get too noisy, or a mingling activity that got a little out of control. As a teacher, I have certainly been in a…
Troika: Let’s start at the beginning: How did you become a teacher? What academic path did you follow? Above all, when did you first feel like a teacher? Catarina Pontes: I first stepped into a classroom as a teacher back in 1997 – I was reaching the end of my English…
The role and importance of phraseology is acknowledged in various linguistic persuasions as well as by different areas of application such as first language acquisition (Diessel, 2013; Tomasello, 2003), second language acquisition (Ellis, 1993; Ellis & Ferreira-Junior…
“Hello! My name is Mabel Castro. I am an EFL teacher and a teacher trainer. I have been working as an EFL professional for a long time, and am presently working as a pedagogic coordinator at a private school in Rio de Janeiro.” This is a somewhat predictable, perhaps…
This book aims to provide a holistic hands-on curriculum for teachers who teach English as a second language to pre-school children aged 4-6. Pupils are exposed to the English language through play and by involving them in fun and creative hands-on activities. The…
