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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
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
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
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
Learning Theories – all the major concepts at a glance
CONCEPT MAP http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1LGVGJY66-CCD5CZ-12G3/Learning%20Theory.cmap
In: Course Design, Educational Technology, ESL Facts & Figures, Instructional Design, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Who is Who in ELT
What is Study-English-Online.Net?
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, NOTES, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy
Three Generations of Distance Learning Pedagogy 1. Cognitive Behaviourism 2. Constructivism 3. Connectivism
In: Accents, Collaborative Learning, Commonly Made Mistakes, Course Design, Digital Storytelling, E-Learning Design & Management, Educational Technology, EFL/ESL CD-ROMs, ESL Facts & Figures, ESL statistics, groupwork, Instructional Design, interactive CD-ROMs, language learning e-tivities, Learner Skills, Learning Language Teaching, Learning Styles, Observations, Statistics, Teacher Skills, Testing and Assessment, TEYL, Uncategorized, Using Blogs in EFL, Using Wikis in EFL, Web 2.0 Buzz Words, Web 2.0 Tools, Web Design, Who is Who in ELT · Tagged with: behaviourism, cognitivism, connectivism, constructivism, theories
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 […]
In: Observations · Tagged with: horticulture, landscape design, vocabulary