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Marisa Constantinides

I train TEFL teachers at CELT in Athens Greece and online - our main courses are Cambridge CELTA and Delta. I interact with educators from all over the world through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and through blogging

Defragmenting Foreign Language Learning

Presenting language in small fragments hoping that they will one day automatically transform into fluent near-native talk may not be enough. My talk at TESOL Greece highlighted some ways in which skilled performers achieve excellence and focused on practical activities promoting holistic language learning using a variety of free online […]

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 33,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 8 Film Festivals Click here to see […]

Παληά αναγνωστικά: ένας θησαυρός στην οθόνη σας

Μπορεί σ’αυτές τις σελίδες να δημοσιεύω σχόλια που έχουν να κάνουν με την ξενόγλωσση παιδεία, αλλά, νοσταλγικά, αναδημοσιεύω τα παρακάτω, με πολλές ευχαριστίες στον ΟΔΕΓ για την τακτική και πλούσια ενημέρωση Παληά αναγνωστικά: ένας θησαυρός στην οθόνη σας Μια τεράστια δουλειά του blog gnoseis ολοκληρώθηκε. 22 παλιά αναγνωστικά, από το 1936, έχουν ψηφιοποιηθεί […]

G is for Genre

Definition  Genre ( /ˈʒɑːnrə/ or /ˈdʒɑːnrə/; from French, genre French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ʁ], “kind” or “sort”, from Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, […]