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Making (great) use of dialogues in the EFL classroom When I was a teenager (early 90s) studying at this language school in Bebedouro/SP coming up with authentic material to study outside of the...
View ArticleBetty Pow (part 2)
Here’s the second part of Betty Pow’s article on pronunciation. Click here for part 1. Making Sense of Intonation One of my favorite approaches for raising learners´ awareness of meaning conveyed by...
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Reading as Critical Thinking “Reading is a transaction, a process, in which readers actively construct meaning from a text by bringing meaning to as well as taking meaning from a text.” Rosenblatt...
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Reading as Critical Thinking (part 2) Click here for the first part of this post. Literature circles are a special kind of small-group literature discussion in which the kids themselves lead the...
View Articleteaching inversion – guest post by Ricardo Barros
It has long bothered me that the use of inversions in speaking is largely seen as unnatural. Time and time again I would go to a training session or overhear other teachers speaking and inversions...
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