By Ana Tatsumi
“Blended Learning” has become a very familiar term not only in the ELT community, but for all fields of studies and educational contexts. In fact, more than ever, many institutions all over the world have been implementing Blended Learning models –…
When talking about 21st century skills, Ceri Jones’s approach involves questions – exploring them about the term “21st century skills “, and then how they can help up tackle these skills.
So let’s think about the term itself: Why all the fuss about 21st century…
What language is most commonly used in online dating profiles? Chris Ożóg delves into the Cambridge English Corpus to find out, and provides a fun class activity download to incorporate these patterns into a lesson with your adult learners.
Students are people. They do…
BY BEN GOLDSTEIN • METHODOLOGY, SECONDARY
Global Competence in ELT: An Introduction Ben Goldstein, author of Eyes Open and Uncover, looks at the basics when it comes to global competence and teenage learners – what actually is it and why is it important to…
Daniela A. Meyer –
Which vocabulary words or phrases do you remember best? How did you learn them? How often do you use them when speaking English? How does your brain retrieve them? As Jeanne McCarten stated in Cambridge University Press’s pedagogical booklet…
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…
