In order to stimulate critical thinking among our students we need to foster creativity, participation and allow them to ask questions about topics that are of their interest. Questioning and inquiry should be part of their routine, as well as problem solving and…
Nowadays teaching English by skype is becoming more common as it more convenient for many people to have an English lesson in their office, house or even hotel where they are staying on business. In this article, I would like to offer some simple, but effective techniques…
É claro que aprender a pronúncia correta de palavras comuns é essencial para se comunicar de forma efetiva. Na verdade, muitos erros de pronúncia são causados pela ênfase errada, a parte da palavra falada com um pouco mais força e duração. Existem diversos truques…
Paulo Torres –
My April post was about using songs in class. In order to exemplify some of the tips given, I decided to prepare a song activity. This activity was prepared for an A2 group and we were working on weather words. Below you will find the instructions and…
Ricardo Madureira –
Absolute beginners, unlike the so-called false beginners, are learners who have no previous knowledge whatsoever of the target language they are about to start studying. Teachers will often wrongly assume that some language structures are easier…
Vanessa Prata – Após uns meses sem conseguir contribuir para o blog da Disal (tenho a desculpa de estar na fase de qualificação do mestrado rs…), estou de volta! E escolhi como tema comentar o livro Inglês para Professor, de Higor Cavalcante, pois tem um…
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…
Marcela Cintra –
When asked about our students we, all remember the brilliant or the devilish ones. We boast about those students who excelled in their studies or professional lives because of our lessons or laugh at the displays of misbehaviour we faced throughout…
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.
