Nina Loback is the Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) If you had the chance to talk to the person you are going to be by the end of the year, would you take the opportunity? There is a free web tool …
Nina Loback is the Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) You know this feeling we have that you can find just about anything online nowadays? When trying to do something, anything, have you ever caught yourself wondering if there was an …
This is the first of a series of Richmond posts for 2018 and we aim to offer you some practical ideas that can easily be applied to your daily routine. I am Nina Loback, Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools, and I look forward to your comments, suggestions and requests. Today’s activity and its …
As the end of the school year approaches, teachers get even busier marking exams, finalizing reports both on individual students and courses taught, not to mention remedial classes, parents’ meetings, staff meetings, end-of-term celebrations … a long list to remind us that the year is not over yet! Very soon it will be time for …
If beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, where does innovation lie in the context of the L2 classroom? Within the relatively slow-changing scenario of general education, the ELT industry has been an exception, benefitting from SLA research, from classroom research, from very competent teacher training and development courses, and from the investment of …
The effective use of class time is a big issue in contexts where the exposure to the target language in and outside the classroom is restricted by low contact hours, big groups, limited resources, poor internet access and little opportunity to use the target language outside the school. Teachers very frequently struggle to keep students …
Over twenty years since the publication of Michael Lewis’s The Lexical Approach[1] and having followed all the debate on it[2], where do we stand in relation to the teaching of vocabulary? A little review of the materials we use in our classrooms and our own attitude to vocabulary teaching/learning may prove useful, so let’s get …
The teaching of English as a second or foreign language industry has not only grown in numbers all over the world over the past three or four decades, but has developed in different directions, catering for different needs and teaching situations. Looking specifically at the Brazilian market, it is fair to say that we operate …