August – September 2019 e-bulletin
Welcome to our August 2019 e-bulletin issue. The CELT Athens team send you our very best wishes for a great start to the school year beginning soon in most countries […]
Welcome to our August 2019 e-bulletin issue. The CELT Athens team send you our very best wishes for a great start to the school year beginning soon in most countries […]
This post is based on three activities on video with a young class in their first year of English videotaped as part of a training project for a course on […]
<![CDATA[ Digital Storytelling & Young Learners Picture this: …a teacher holding up her laptop or tablet and a circle of children listening to her and following the digital images of her imagination, completely absorbed in the world she has been weaving for them through her narration. Now Picture this: …a […]
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. […]
Well, I guess many educators have read this post which was sent to me via e-mail. I cannot even remember who first sent it to me. The email contained the […]
R.F.Dearden’s (1967) definition of play, ‘a non-serious and self-contained activity which we engage in just for the satisfaction involved in it’, suggests that any activity that takes the mind of the […]
<![CDATA[Yannis is 6 years old and last year his parents decided it was about time he started learning English. So they enrolled him in the local foreign language centre, part of a big franchise of similar centres in Greece and the Balkans. What is the best way of teaching young […]