What about your concept questions? The famous CCQ’s
CCQ’s – in the TEFL jargon which we all use – are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something or are revising a lexical item a […]
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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
Κρίση ή έλλειψη κρίσης;
Θεοδώρα Παπαναγιώτου Το σημερινό δημοσίευμα είναι γραμμένο από την πρώτη προσκεκλημένη μου, Θεοδώρα Παπαπαναγιώτου. Η Θεοδώρα διδάσκει Γερμανικά και Αγγλικά στη Θεσσαλονίκη από το 1994. Είναι Απόφοιτος Γερμανικής Φιλολογίας του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης αλλά και κάτοχος CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) – πιστοποιήσεων […]
One Year of Blogging
<![CDATA[ I have great reason to celebrate: one year of blogging! Well, one year and something…. Although this post is rather late, mainly due to a really heavy teaching schedule in July and August, I have been thinking about it and writing bits and bytes whenever I had a few […]
Multitasking or "making a hole in the water"?
<![CDATA[ I have neglected this blog and this post is by way of apologising to my readers but here was my day – the list below repeats itself day in day out with some changes, but that’s a standard day…Here is the story today: Ran input sessions in the morning […]
Word clouds to integrate reading and writing
<![CDATA[Well, thank you to all who came to this webinar and sorry slides were rather unruly; here they are. kapitzvirt Word clouds Word clouds from Marisa Constantinides View more presentations from Marisa Constantinides. Here is the link to my voicethread using a word cloud: please leave a comment or a […]
My Teaching Languages in a Virtual World Blog Posts
<![CDATA[Since the Teaching Languages in a Virtual World Ning will soon be closing down, I have saved the posts related to some teaching experiences in Second Life here on this blog – mainly for the memory and some really interesting discussions following each post. You will be able to read […]
Birthday Memories – Wallwishers are great!
<![CDATA[I loved my birthday wishes this year! Thanks to Shelly Terrell who was the instigator, my PLN gave me this wonderful memory of this special birthday. I was so thrilled at your words, music, images and thoughts that I wanted to save them all here and come back and look […]
C is for Contextual Guesswork in Reading
In his great taxonomy of language skills listing*, John Munby mentions “developing sensitivity to context clues”, as one of the microskills of reading. In this post, I would like to share […]
How not to teach English
Here are some of the things that still happen in many classrooms in Greece – do they also happen in other parts of the world? The teacher and the students talk to each other mainly using the students’ mother tongue. The teacher asks the students to read a text aloud. […]
Πως να διδάσκετε Αγγλικά χωρίς να μαθαίνουν οι μαθητές σας – 3
Το δεύτερο άρθρο αυτής της σειράς προκάλεσε διαφόρων ειδών αντιδράσεις. Κάποιοι το βρήκαν εξαιρετικό, άλλοι το βρήκαν καταθλιπτικό γιατί περιγράφει εικόνες από μια πραγματικότητα που ακόμη και σήμερα καλά κρατεί, άλλοι το διάβασαν και αδιαφόρησαν, κάποιοι το βρήκαν εξαιρετικά σκληρό – ελάχιστοι σχολίασαν και όσοι το έκαναν είναι συνάδελφοι. Ετσι […]