What about your CCQ’s? Concept Checking Questions Part 1
Since I posted this blog post in 2010 or so, many more good articles and blog posts have been added to our collective knowledge – I will try to add […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Art of Being Creative
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 […]
Braving it in the Virtual World: Being an Online Teacher
<![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 […]
Word for Word
<![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, […]
What kind of teacher are you? Are you in your students' "Hall of Fame"?
<![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 […]
Storming out or Norming in?
I first became interested in social group theory quite a few years ago, mainly due to a great colleague and friend, Angi Malderez who I met during the 2nd International […]
Tech Tools & Pedagogy I – ReadtheWords, Voki & Xtranormal
<![CDATA[My first post in the series is about three applications ReadtheWords in which an avatar speaks out a text you have pasted into a text box Voki which does the same but which also allows you to record your voice not xtranormal which allows only text to speech but which […]