Technology for Teaching and Learning December 19, 2010 Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 2: Using technology (by Christina Markoulaki) You can read the first part of this posthere. The outline of the presentation with all the links can be found here. Moving on to the second challenge all teachers around the world need... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities December 14, 2010 Meeting Challenges in the EFL Classroom/ Part 1: Read-aloud activities (by Christina Markoulaki) Branko M., Assistant Professor of American Literature of the English Department (Faculty of Humanities in Serbia), has been so kind as to give me the opportunity to present in a webinar some of the challenges... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities October 30, 2010 Witches, Ninjas, Fairies, Princesses, and Super Heroes It’s Halloween, and time for another class party! These were my students’ costumes for our Halloween party this year. Considering that dressing up wasn’t mentioned, I was impressed that they made such an effort... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know October 28, 2010 To champion the picturebook (by Sandie Mourão) In May this year I launched my blog, Picturebooks in ELT. The motivation came from the work I’m doing with picturebooks for my PhD. When I began my research programme, I had no idea... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities September 28, 2010 The Auction (by Marco Brazil) It is normally a public sale at which items are sold to the person offering to pay the highest price. However, this reinvention of auction for EFL classrooms doesn’t have any items up for... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
High Tech Ideas for Low Tech Classrooms / Technology for Teaching and Learning September 22, 2010 Getting the most out of Power Point (by David Dodgson) It’s easy these days to get carried away with all the talk about advances in educational technology and what the latest, coolest web-based resource is. The truth for many teachers and students around the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities July 23, 2010 Palayok: Reinvention of a Traditional Game for EFL Classrooms (by Marco Brazil) Cultural Background Ask any Filipinos about Pukpuk Palayok or Hampas Palayok, and chances are they played it or saw it played at least once during their childhoods. The game is so immensely popular that... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know July 15, 2010 “Special” tricks Part 2 — repetition (by David Deubelbeiss) If you missed the first part of this article, start here Previously, I outlined how much I’d been changed as a teacher by the realization that language students would benefit from a lot of... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Stuff All EFL Teachers Should Know July 13, 2010 An “old dog” and “special tricks” (by David Deubelbeiss) Over the length of my teaching career, I’ve changed in many ways. I think my journey mimics that of a lot of other ELT teachers. 1. I have slowed down my delivery and instruction... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket
Activities July 8, 2010 The Star Festival: Teaching Tanabata in English Part of the series: EFL Makeovers July 7th is Tanabata, or the Star Festival, in Japan. Legend says that Orihime (a weaver, represented by the star Vega) and Hikoboshi (a cowherd, represented by the... Share this:FacebookLinkedInTwitterPinterestPrintMoreEmailTumblrRedditPocket