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Tag: Reading

Teacher training and Development

Compelling Readings for Language Acquisition

January 3, 2013

<![CDATA[This post is long overdue but I thought it would make a fitting opening to 2013 as the talk I am reporting is one of the most interesting ones I followed in 2012 and adds to what many colleagues will have read of the work of Dr Stephen Krashen. The Symposium Dr Krashen’s talk, ‘Technology:…
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My 11 from '11

November 30, 2011

<![CDATA[Am taking up  Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year.  Adam said, “Choose the best 11” but I must confess I don’t write as many posts as all that. Some people seem to be able to churn…
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Advance Organisers – How they Connect the Reading Experience

February 28, 2011

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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Tradition Revisited & Revamped: "Something old, something new…."

November 21, 2010

<![CDATA[ What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching practice? The discussions during the #ELTchat of November 10 had us running in two directions: there were those colleagues who wanted…
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Animating Stories

October 27, 2010

<![CDATA[I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues' blogs and links on Twitter.  Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s  4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies in the Language Classroom and Shelly Terrell’s presentation on Digital Storytelling which includes some excellent ideas. Here are a few additional ones, which…
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Word clouds to integrate reading and writing

July 31, 2010

<![CDATA[Well, thank you to all who came to this webinar and sorry slides were rather unruly; here they are. kapitzvirt Word clouds [slideshare id=Dd9zqEyaiOfpuw&w=595&h=485&fb=0&mw=0&mh=0&style=border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;&sc=no] Word clouds from Marisa Constantinides View more presentations from Marisa Constantinides. Here is the link to my voicethread using a word cloud:…
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Words from Context: of Logic & Connections

June 15, 2010

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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Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds

February 11, 2010

<![CDATA[In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run…
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Using word clouds in class – a lesson plan

February 10, 2010

<![CDATA[This lesson plan was produced during  the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey – many more lessons and lesson ideas can be found there but here is mine: The text was to be chosen randomly (in case you were wondering why I chose this particular one). Text source: A news item from…
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