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…
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…
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.
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…
General or Academic?
The IELTS (International English Language Testing Service) offers two version of the test and which one to take is a common question candidates have. The aim of this post is to help you understand the similarities and differences of each version and how…
Marcela Cintra –
The eventful story about the cinema and ELT may be looked at from various perspectives and become a romance, a comedy, even a horror film. In this post, the genre chosen is the one people call dramatic comedy – learners can have fun if films are…
