<![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 […]
<![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 […]
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 […]
<![CDATA[I am delighted to have received this award, which is part of an initiative called “Vale a pena ficar de olho nesse blog”, which means “It’s worth keeping an eye on this blog”. The chosen blog has to copy the picture above, with a link to the blog from which […]
What is involved in the creative process? It has been suggested that creativity (or, as it is also termed, divergent production) is not a single unifying ability but it is […]
<![CDATA[This is a quick post to publish the links and some of the videos shown to the members of TESOL Greece who attended my talk on March 15. With apologies to readers who were not present at this talk (if this doesn’t make sense to them) In the first part […]
<![CDATA[Panayotis used to be one of my Proficiency students. When I took over his class, he had already taken the examination twice… and failed both times. There were few words for which Panayotis could not provide synonyms, antonyms, but translation was his forte! Always keen to share his treasure trove, […]
<![CDATA[The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different […]
<![CDATA[In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course […]
<![CDATA[Most learners enjoy playing games; most teachers use games convinced of their value for language learning. This short, post aims to give you ideas for games which deal with subject matter which is usually considered ‘ heavy’ or ‘ very serious’ and not usually dealt with in such a light-hearted […]