Fernando Morais –
“Whether you like them or not, tests are not going away.” (Harmer, IATEFL 2015)
Preparing students for proficiency exams is a growing demand for English language teachers. More than 10 million people sit these tests every year around the globe.
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…
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…
Mistakes teachers make when teaching reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing - Ricardo Madureira
24/03/2016
Ricardo Madureira –
Many teachers of English have not undergone adequate preparation to face the real classroom. They take part in one-week crash training courses and are expected to go to the real world and ‘apply’ what they have been instructed to do, as if the…
Paulo Torrres –
Paulo Torres worked on this activity at the municipal school he works for and is now sharing it. It was used with his third graders (4º ano) – Fundamental I. NB Although this activity was used at a municipal school, it can easily be adapted…
Gladys Garcia –
One thing that I used to hear from my students was that they could not feel their progress. “Am I making progress?” “I can not notice whether I am making progress or not.” I used to get that a lot.
If you are a teacher and you are having…
