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Protected: Post-Focus Assessment Task 2
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Johanna Sterling: Site Review
Joanna Sterling’s site has been in existence for many years and is thoroughly recommended for teaches and learners alike.
Activities for learners include: spelling activities, parts of speech, English jokes, advice about improving speaking as well as links for students.
For teachers the site includes: lots of practical ideas, the Portable Electronic Dictionary,remedial spelling, helping students [...]
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Azerbaijan
One of the first sites that I created was a photo gallery with commentaries in Spanish to show my friends and colleagues in Latin speaking countries what I had been up to.
Recently I learned that a colleague from the University where I work will be going to Baku, so I thought that I would put [...]
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A new link
Here is a link sent to me by Robert Ledbury. The site is created by Phil Quirke (any relation to Randolph Quirk?) as part of his PhD with Aston University.
‘Welcome to the site that aims to give EFL/ESL teachers studying for Masters and Diplomas all the [...]
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Writing tests
Easier said than done. A test writer has very few friends and often finds that it is impossible to do the job to everyone’s satisfaction.
But it is clear that it is imperative for test writers to be very clear in their own minds what it is that they want to test and what the purpose [...]
The Relationship Between Testing and Teaching
Two questıons to ponder:
1. The effect of a test on teaching or learning is known as washback [or backwash in testing in the USA]. [Alderson and Wall, 1993: 17]
The backwash hypothesis seems to assume that teachers and learners do things they would not necessarily otherwise do because of the [...]
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The assertive discipline approach to classroom management
Keys ideas:
a teacher must insist and expect responsible behaviour from the students
maintain adequate classroom discipline
both students and teachers have rights
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Glasser’s control theory approach to classroom management
This approach, put forward by Glasser, is a mixture of interactionist, humanist and behaviourist approaches.
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A student centred approach to classroom management
The original and fundamental assumption behind this approach was that parents and teacher’s control children’s behaviour and this can have a very negative effect on child development. There is a long tradition in psychology that supports this type of classroom approach. A student centred approach intends to encourage independence and to allow children to [...]
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word lists
In order for learners to achieve the target 2000 words as quickly as possible, they will need a rich and nourishing vocabulary. Some words will be taught by the teacher and other words will be learnt incidentally in extensive reading and listening activities. Many learners prefer a list of target words to learn. How can [...]
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