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Principled Eclecticism
According to Michael Swan, when teaching grammar, we should reject nothing on doctrinaire grounds: * deductive teaching through explanations and examples, * inductive discovery activities, * rule-learning, * peer-teaching, * decontextualised practice, * communicative practice, * incidental focus on form during communicative tasks, * teacher correction and recasts, * grammar games, * corpus analysis, * […]
In: GRAMMAR, Learning Language Teaching, Who is Who in ELT · Tagged with: Michael Swan, principled eclecticism
The Cambridge Scale – Convert Cambridge Exam Results into IELTS band scores and backwards
In: English Exams, Statistics
Protected: 1001 ELT CASE STUDIES * CASE 2 – My students just won’t use all these linking words or new vocab when answering discussion questions … What shall I do? – Use them yourself. Respond to the questions first. Be a good model answer provider.
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In: Learning Language Teaching, Observations, Task & Activity Design · Tagged with: activating vocabulary, speaking, teaching cohesion and coherence, ways of providing language input
ETYMOLOGY and MEANING of HAVE your CAKE and EAT IT TOO
a NY T article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/magazine/20FOB-onlanguage-t.html
In: Explorations in Meaning
Protected: 1001 ELT CASE STUDIES * CASE 1 – How to think of a good warm-up activity to start all my lessons over the next term in ONE HOUR or LESS? – Use threads.
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In: ELN project, Instructional Design, Learning Language Teaching, Planning Lessons and Courses, Task & Activity Design, Who is Who in ELT · Tagged with: animals, EFL lesson structure, lesson aims, lesson planning, short activities, Tessa Woodward, the devil is in the details, threads, WhtSome
10 Grammar Rules Revisited – they are sometimes OK to break
There are several grammarians and linguists that are always exciting to read and listen to, and Steven Pinker is definitely one of them. His article in the Guardian revisits 10 most important grammar rules. It is surely worth reading http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/15/steven-pinker-10-grammar-rules-break Steven Pinker’s The Sense of Style: the Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is […]
The Nile ELT Glossary of ELT Terms
Lots of ELT Terms are explained thoroughly and clearly at https://mycourses.nile-elt.com/mod/glossary/view.php?id=580
In: Learning Language Teaching · Tagged with: terminology
Writing & Punctuation – 10 Common Mistakes
http://divergenteye.blogspot.com/2014/02/grammar-check-infographic-10-common.html
In: Commonly Made Mistakes, GRAMMAR, Punctuation · Tagged with: punctuation, writing skills
Pronunciation Insights – Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can’t we agree how to pronounce common words?
QUOTE Aunt, adult, pajamas: Why can’t we agree how to pronounce common words? Call it the problem of toilet-paper-roll words By James Harbeck | February 10, 2014 How do you pronounce each of the following words? And is there another correct way to pronounce them? adult, address, almond, amen, arctic, aunt, banal, Caribbean, diabetes, either, envelope, harassment, herb, […]
In: Accents, Pronunciation Differences
IELTS past papers, book 9 – where do the practice texts come from?
Those who are studying for IELTS frequently wonder where most of the practice tests originally come from. That is a rather easy question to answer if you have the time to read all the fine print and acknowledgements. Let us examine Book 9, for instance: Some of texts there come from newspapers and magazines, such […]
In: ESL/EFL Book Reviews · Tagged with: IELTS tests