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Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they could analyse and decipher them, would be able to arrive at the overall meaning of the text. But, is this what happens…
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CCQ’s – in the TEFL jargon which we all use – are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something or are revising a lexical item a group of words a grammar point a functional exponent Generations of my CELTA, TEFL and DELTA trainees have agonised over their CCQ’s and this…
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<![CDATA[This is a post which has been brewing for some time now and I have taken the opportunity to publish it on this day of September to celebrate the International Day of Peace. In my local ELT scene, Greece, many of the ‘givens’ we used to take for granted are no longer true. We used…
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<![CDATA[Since the Teaching Languages in a Virtual World Ning will soon be closing down, I have saved the posts related to some teaching experiences in Second Life here on this blog – mainly for the memory and some really interesting discussions following each post. You will be able to read them by downloading the pdf…
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