On my first day teaching English to a class of young learners I walked into a classroom full of 6-year-olds. As the young teacher I was then I had no idea of how different one 6-year-old could be from another. I mean, from the outside they all looked the same; small people…
Gênios são atemporais. Por mais que décadas, séculos passem, por mais que seus trabalhos sejam aperfeiçoados ou questionados, a gente tem a obrigação de respeitar todos que desbravaram o caminho e, nesse caso, temos que nos curvar à genialidade do senhor Noam…
Students who have not reached a good level of English before the high-intermediate stage are subject to making developmental mistakes, of which the following is an example:
‘Do you can help me?’
Students love relying on generalization, because this gives them a sense of…
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…
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…
Louise Potter – The truth of this simple sentence always strikes me when I think about our profession:
” We are not teachers, we become teachers”.
Teaching is like a never ending story. We never get to the bottom of it. There is always something new…
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…