Though experience and through language we learn. Experience needs language to give it form. Language needs experience to give it content. ~Walter Loban Children learning English as a foreign language tend to develop oral language skills before they become literate. In countries like Japan, where the grammar structure and writing system of English is so [...]
Posts Tagged ‘young learners’
Lessons Learned (by Naomi Moir)
Like many native English speaking teachers of English, when I started out I’d had no real training in teaching young learners. I’d had training in teaching adults (CELTA) and happened to quite like children – but it didn’t make me qualified or prepared for the YL classroom! Looking back nearly 15 years later, I can [...]
About mountains, challenges and teaching (by Cecilia Lemos)
When you’re walking down a path and you see a hill, what do you think?
Cat and Mouse: Reinvention of a Traditional Game (by Marco Brazil)
In the US, they call it Duck Duck Goose. In Bulgaria they call it Pesek, while in Ghana they call it Antokyire. Children across the globe call it many different names, and in the Philippines we call it Iring-Iring. Iring is a Bisaya (Filipino vernacular) word for cat.
Okayama: Wonderful teachers and my first school visit
I was in Okayama last weekend for the OUP Teaching Workshops. Okayama is famous for several things, including a story many of you know (at least in translation) and a food enjoyed by the main character in that story. Finding the name of the story and the name of the food is your webquest for [...]
Thank you for an amazing year!
It’s the last day of 2010, and a good time to reflect on the year that’s nearly done. This is the 110th post since I began this blog in June of 2009. I know that’s not a lot compared to really prolific bloggers, but it’s enough to thrill me. I began [...]
Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 2: Using technology (by Christina Markoulaki)
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 [...]
Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 1: Read-aloud activities (by Christina Markoulaki)
Branko M., Assistant Professor of American Literature of the English Department (Faculty of Humanities in Serbia), has been so kind as to give me the opportunity to present in a webinar some of the challenges teachers worldwide need to face if they wish their teaching to result in efficient learning on the students’ part. Although I feel [...]
Witches, Ninjas, Fairies, Princesses, and Super Heroes
Part of the series: Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know It’s Halloween, and time for another class party! These were my students’ costumes for our Halloween party this year. Considering that dressing up wasn’t mentioned, I was impressed that they made such an effort to come in character!
To champion the picturebook (by Sandie Mourão)
In May this year I launched my blog, Picturebooks in ELT. The motivation came from the work I’m doing with picturebooks for my PhD. When I began my research programme, I had no idea it would lead me down this route…
