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My Teaching Languages in a Virtual World Blog Posts

July 24, 2010

<![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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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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Watching Young Learners at Work: From Practice to Principle

May 29, 2010

<![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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It's Worth Taking a Look at this Blog

April 25, 2010

<![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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The Art of Being Creative

April 13, 2010

<![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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Braving it in the Virtual World: Being an Online Teacher

March 15, 2010

<![CDATA[This is a quick post to publish the links and some of the videos shown to the members of TESOL Greece who attended my talk on March 15. With apologies to readers who were not present at this talk (if this doesn’t make sense to them) In the first part of my talk we looked…
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Word for Word

February 21, 2010

<![CDATA[Panayotis used to be one of my Proficiency students. When I took over his class, he had already taken the examination twice… and failed both times. There were few words for which Panayotis could not provide synonyms, antonyms, but translation was his forte! Always keen to share his treasure trove, as he could so easily…
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What kind of teacher are you? Are you in your students' "Hall of Fame"?

February 14, 2010

<![CDATA[The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different learners (50 adults and 60 young learners between 11-13). The adults who took part in this interim study were contacted by me directly. The young…
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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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Playing Games or Being Serious?

January 30, 2010

<![CDATA[Most learners enjoy playing games; most teachers use games convinced of their value for language learning. This short, post aims to give you ideas for games which deal with subject matter which is usually considered ‘ heavy’ or ‘ very serious’ and not usually dealt with in such a light-hearted way! The games below are…
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