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 […]
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 […]
Here are our nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2012. Best individual blog Tony Gurr’s Blog All Things Learning – because he worries about his posts and I like the way he thinks about teaching and learning Best individual tweeter Shellt Terrell @ShellTerrell because she always tweets great content and is […]
For the last – well, almost two years now, since September 15 2010, #ELTchat has kept us on our toes and forged hundreds of professional and personal relationships amongst its followers who turn up on Twitter every Wednesday to talk about topics they have suggested and voted on – a […]
I am a teacher educator from Athens, Greece. I train English language teachers and help them become better teachers in the classroom. I started blogging in late 2009 my first blog, Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters (in English), was followed by this blog which was originally intended to include topic areas more focused […]
ELTons Awards Nomination News May 23, 2012 Innovation in Teacher Resources We are very proud, pleased and honoured to be shortlisted in the nominations for an ELTons award, “the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in the field of English language teaching (ELT).” For a whole week my blogs will be celebrating the ELTons award nomination and shortlisting of the #ELTchat website and #ELTchat, a […]
I was very happy to discover a research report on the potential of using Facebook as a learning management system. Facebook popularity and the ease with which most teachers and learners can create an account these days was, after all, one of the reasons our aPLaNet project team decided to […]
The Cambridge DELTA has become a qualification which many seek to consolidate their career in English Language Teaching and to be promoted into positions of responsibility as senior teachers, heads of ELT departments, and much more. It is a course that really does produce reflective teacher practitioners who can also […]
The #ELT chat topic on Wednesday, 15th February was on Monitoring, Feedback and Debriefing: when and how to do it. These issues in teaching are of equal importance just as practising any other skill in class. As this could be a sensitive issue, the teacher has to be really careful […]