Compelling Readings for Language Acquisition
The inspiration for this short blog post was Dr Krashen’s talk, ‘Technology: useful tool if used to create and enhance comprehensible input ‘, was one of the plenaries on the […]
My 11 from '11
<![CDATA[Am taking up Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year. Adam said, “Choose the best 11” but I must confess I don’t write as many posts as all that. Some people seem […]
The SEETA Reading Course – A free online course – 27 February – 5 March, 2011
Since Sunday the 27th of February, I have been ‘teaching’ this online course focusing on reading skills development on the SEETA Moodle platform. I was extremely happy to have been asked to run this course for SEETA (South Eastern Europe Teachers’ Associations) as this is the first time I am […]
A is for Advance Organisers
Reading and listening are highly complex activities and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, they are often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which […]
Tradition Revisited & Revamped: “The Result will be Inflaming you”
What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them […]
Animating Stories
<![CDATA[I have been playing with story animation tools for a long time, learning from colleagues' blogs and links on Twitter. Recent posts include Burcu Akyol’s 4-3-2-1 Action! Online Tools For Making Movies in the Language Classroom and Shelly Terrell’s presentation on Digital Storytelling which includes some excellent ideas. Here are […]
My Hidden Gems
Dear Blog Readers, This a post in response to a challenge set by Jason Renshaw (English Raven) to all fellow bloggers, to bring out and highlight our blog’s hidden gems, in other words, posts we really enjoyed writing or which engaged us and our readers in conversations that we thought […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds
<![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 […]