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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, * […]

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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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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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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

Posted on July 10, 2014 at 10:48 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Writing & Punctuation – 10 Common Mistakes

http://divergenteye.blogspot.com/2014/02/grammar-check-infographic-10-common.html

Posted on April 7, 2014 at 11:54 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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, […]

Posted on February 12, 2014 at 7:01 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Accents, Pronunciation Differences

Learning Theories – all the major concepts at a glance

CONCEPT MAP http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1LGVGJY66-CCD5CZ-12G3/Learning%20Theory.cmap

What is Study-English-Online.Net?

Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy

Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy 1. Cognitive Behaviourism 2. Constructivism 3. Connectivism

Do we ever stop learning vocabulary?

Almost every hobby that lets you evolve from a newbie to an expert implies learning hundreds of collocations within the first couple of months of intensive practice, which amounts to thousands if you continue for over a decade. Every time I meet someone who is interested in something I have not been exposed to much […]

Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:50 pm by Stacey · Permalink · Leave a comment
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