Over twenty years since the publication of Michael Lewis’s The Lexical Approach[1] and having followed all the debate on it[2], where do we stand in relation to the teaching of vocabulary? A little review of the materials we use in our classrooms and our own attitude to…
Bubbling Under: Helping ideas to surface in speaking classes Q&A - Oxford University Press
07/08/2017
Edmund Dudley is a teacher trainer, materials writer and teacher of English with more than 20 years of classroom experience. Based in Budapest, he has extensive experience of teaching EFL at both primary and secondary levels. He works with teachers from around the world as a…
Songs, nursery rhymes and finger-plays are a common tradition in almost every culture. Learning these in English is an easy and special way to encourage your students’ language learning process.
Songs and chants are an important part of a culture’s heritage.
Hoje dia 28 e amanhã 29 de Julho ocorre em São Paulo no Colégio Rio Branco de Higienópolis o evento Cel.Lep Teachers’ Conference para comemorar seus 50 anos. JS: Could you please tell us first a little bit about your background and why and…
I am an extremely visual person when it comes down to learning. I image stories, phrases, equations…whatever the context might be.
There has been a lot of uproar regarding Cambridge English’s pledge to remove the phrase “learning styles” from the Celta and…
Putting your principles into practice: Lexical teaching in the age of eclecticism
24/07/2017
Eclectic or just confused?
As teachers, we’re often told that we’re now living in a post-method world and that we should all aspire to be principled eclectics, picking and choosing activities and techniques as we go about teaching the language. On one level, an awareness…
Brad Meltzer, novelist, once said: “Sharing education, sharing a book… that’s what changes the world.” Working in Education has made me more open to sharing ideas, but after working for 17 years in ELT, I soon began to question myself: “What does sharing…
Last week, in the BT SIG Symposium, one of the teachers participating in my talk approached me and kindly asked what suggestion I had to help act in the context he worked. He claimed he wanted and needed to be observed, but his superiors considered that unimportant; he…
