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Until a few months ago, I always considered myself an English teacher who specialized in writing. I love writing, and I love helping others realize that their stories and ideas are worth sharing in more than one language. Recently, however, I’ve been drawn to another area of the English language. I have a whole new [...]
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“The problem with our profession is that there is too much teaching and not enough learning”. I said this recently during a discussion and I think it is such an important point to understand about “teaching” a language – that we have to get away from delivery systems that are teacher directed and more towards [...]
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You can read the first part of this post here. The outline of the presentation with all the links can be found here. Moving on to the second challenge all teachers around the world need to face at some point, I am going to refer to the constant use of books or anything that comes [...]
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It’s easy these days to get carried away with all the talk about advances in educational technology and what the latest, coolest web-based resource is. The truth for many teachers and students around the world is that they are lucky to have one computer and a projector in class and even luckier to have internet [...]
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I teach students between the ages of two- and six-years-old. When you teach young learners you discover how much they love finger plays. The children memorize the English quickly and are able to repeat the words and actions on their own. Introducing the Finger Play Finger plays are best used in the classroom with the [...]
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Some time back, Anita Kwiatkowska encouraged me to start a new series. I’ve actually been thinking of this idea for a few months, when OUP asked me to do a series of presentations about using technology in teaching young EFL learners. Share the post “High Tech Ideas for Low Tech Classrooms: VoiceThread”FacebookTwitterGoogle+
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“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow” John Dewey Kindergarten has always been the place to make friends, paint pictures, tell stories, play games and have fun while learning. Wooden blocks and legos have always been favorites in kindergarten classes. Today, the world is undergoing a digital change, [...]
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The focal point of my previous post on this blog were the potential ways teachers can help their students to organize and practice their knowledge by setting up a blog especially for them. Since video activities on a teacher’s blog seem to be the most appealing ones to learners of all ages, I will now [...]
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I am pretty confident that a vast majority of EFL teachers relish blogging, but each one employs this practice in his/her teaching differently. I am therefore taking the initiative to write this post to ask and give an answer to this question: Have you ever thought of creating a blog for your students to use? [...]
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As an educator for over 15 years at the intermediate level, I have experimented with a variety of methods to engage my students in their learning. My latest endeavor involves introducing different kinds of technology to enhance the teaching of Medieval World History. Through a professional networking site, I came across a request for international [...]
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