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Verbs… Some musings on grammar
This post is slightly different from my usual posts. What if we were to think of grammar for a while? More specifically, I’d like to write about verbs in English and how to teach them. Now, if you’re...
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Do conversation-driven lessons make any sense?
The age of conversation | Photo on Flickr by Kris Hoet The short answer to this question is a resounding ‘yes’, and I could base my answer on experience – mine and also the one’s from lots of...
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Do conversation-driven lessons make any sense? (Part 2)
Language is quite a complex system – one which we try to organise according rules and norms. One of the common ways for us to think about such organisation is prescriptively, the way many of us were...
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Working with discrete vocabulary items
It’s a given that learning words in isolation is not particularly helpful when it comes to learning a foreign language. Words rarely appear in isolation when we communicate, and ELT has come a long way...
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How do you focus on your students’ learning?
Lately, it’s become mainstream to state that we should focus on students’ learning. By saying that we account for the obvious expected outcome of a teaching / learning environment – students’ learning....
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Teaching for Learning – Why Helping Learners Earn their Learning Matters
A while ago I wrote a text about teaching, and even though teaching is one of the key elements in lessons, learning is, obviously, part and parcel of the process that takes place in lessons – it’s the...
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Do conversation-driven lessons make any sense? – Part 3
“But, quiet, my fair lady. I shall now tell the tale of the brave Sir Dante. This brave knight travelled great lengths to seek his justice and help his king defeat an evil wizard who had overthrown...
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