Professional development demands making choices, sometimes very hard, sometimes very easy ones. The first choice is deciding to follow the path of growth in the career we decided to pursue in education. As Wallace (1991) mentioned, development has to be done by the teacher, nobody can develop for another person. However, teachers have the choice …
Story-telling is one of my favourite things to do with very young learners and I know I’m not alone. Stories have played a major role in early childhood education for a long time and are a key element in any good English programme for young children. Listening to and participating in stories requires a range of …
The earliest grammars of English were, for obvious reasons, based on written models of the language. In the absence of any way to record everyday speech, written texts provided a solid base upon which scholarly works could be built. In addition, both grammarians and lexicographers frequently had a deep mistrust of the spoken English language, …
“Hey, you (…) Together we stand, divided we fall” Perhaps the ELT world was not exactly what Mr. Waters bared in mind when he wrote this song for Pink Floyd. Nonetheless, it is undeniable that the message is meant for all of us, citizens of the world, language teachers. Being you a big fan …
Ed Sheeran, a 26-year old British singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer, is a huge success around the world. He is currently on his Divide tour and played recently in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. I went to his show last Sunday and it was spectacular. Allianz Parque in São Paulo …
At the very beginning of Delta Module 2, candidates are asked to state some of their core beliefs with relation to language learning and teaching. As one of them, I also had to state mine, and with the benefit of hindsight, I must confess that a few of my beliefs were rather half-baked. After four …
Adrian Leis is a full-time tenured Associate Professor at Miyagi University of Education in Sendai, Japan. Originally from Australia, he has now been teaching English in Japan for close to 20 years. He obtained his Ph.D from Tohoku University and his main fields of research are L2 learning motivation and computer-assisted language learning. I recently …
Me lembro de quando era mais novo e os professores de inglês onde estudava constantemente diziam que pessoas que ficam pausando suas falas com “é”, “hum”, “ãm”, etc, tinham a fluência atrapalhada. Algumas décadas se passaram, hoje estou do outro lado do espectro e posso dizer que aqueles professores se esqueceram de estudar um recurso …