Teacher training and Development
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In his great taxonomy of language skills which appears in his well known book “Communicative Syllabus Design“, John Munby mentions “developing sensitivity to context clues”, as one of the microskills of reading. kapitzvirt In this post, I would like to share an insight gleaned from an EST (English for Science & Techonology) series of books…
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<![CDATA[A friend got me a little worried earlier this week – she said "I almost never have anything to add to your posts" and wondered what it is that others do to generate comments. Should I be worried? Is there something that I am doing wrong? If so, how can I do better? My worry…
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Για όσους γράφουν blogs και σέβονται τα πνευματικά δικαιώματα των άλλων, ίσως να είναι αυτονόητο ότι όταν αναφερόμαστε στο άρθρο κάποιου άλλου είτε είναι από εφημερίδα είτε από άλλο ιστολόγιο δεν κανουμε τα παρακάτω: – Δεν αντιγράφουμε το κείμενο αυτούσιο – Aντιγράφουμε και παραθέτουμε μόνο μερικές φράσεις ή γραμμές, και μόνο για να τονίσουμε κάποιο…
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<![CDATA[This post is based on three activities on video with a young class in their first year of English videotaped as part of a training project for a course on teaching young learners. Photo Credit: woodleywonderworks via Compfight cc Some information about the young class At the point of being video-taped, this class of Greek…
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<![CDATA[In his blog post A vast Pool of Human Knowledge, Neglected, Darren Elliott, like a true teacher, gave us all a little bit of homework for the weekend, which goes as follows: 1. Have a look through the archives of your favourite bloggers. You can usually find archives in the sidebar, click a tag or…
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<![CDATA[I am delighted to have received this award, which is part of an initiative called “Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog”, which means “It’s worth keeping an eye on this blog”. The chosen blog has to copy the picture above, with a link to the blog from which it has received the award…
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<![CDATA[I am reproducing this article written in 1996 as the ideas presented in my talk at IATEFL Harrogate 2010, derive straight from this work. It is addressed to teacher educators or teachers working in self-help groups trying to manage their own professional development. Activities listed, could form the basis of a wide number of TD…
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