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…
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…
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.
Effective classroom management is an essential skill for Young Learner (YL) teachers. This post provides some of my top tips for developing positive classroom management strategies that you can incorporate into your routine.
Every teacher knows that without…
The teaching of English as a second or foreign language industry has not only grown in numbers all over the world over the past three or four decades, but has developed in different directions, catering for different needs and teaching situations.
Looking specifically at the…
Mark Twain, escritor, humorista e pensador americano do século 19 já dizia: “Os dois dias mais importantes em sua vida são o dia em que nasceu e aquele em que descobriu porquê”. Neste momento você pode ter feito uma pausa na leitura e desviado os seus pensamentos em…
In this post, I would like to discuss the teaching profession from a broader perspective, looking at the group of professionals collectively and using the metaphor of a constellation to analyse team work and cooperation.
A while ago, when discussing teacher development with…
The Teaching field of second and foreign languages has gone through contrasting phases over the past 40 years, as like everything else in the world. After in-depth investigation, research has shown that the communicative approach is the best way to get learners interacting…
