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Protected: Post-Focus Assessment Task 2

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Protected: Pre-Focus Assessment Task 2

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Teaching Speaking Tactics

When learner’s can’t speak, what can they do? Avoidance is a common strategy. Learners either change the topic, or clam up completely. However, there are a number of other strategies that can help learners and, if used judiciously, are probably more benaeficial.
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Activity: Dicey Questions

Here is a very simple activity that is very useful to have in your toolbox as a no materials (save a die) and no preparation required… Aims: Question and answer forms, targeted vocabulary recycling. Skills: Speaking and listening Materials: Set of dice for learners – or, if you have internet and a large enough screen, [...]
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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 support they need. Be it quick answers to [...]
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False beginners

This is my definition of a false beginner. ‘False beginners are those learners in any ELT program who have consistently failed to master sufficient language skills at each level of instruction: they are operating at an inadequate level of performance at whatever level of instruction they have reached.’ Although no formal definition of the false [...]
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Activity: vocabulary tennis

This is an activity that requires no setting up and can be done at the drop of a hat just the kind of activity that I love to have in my toolbox! Essentially, the idea is to promote automatization through quick responses, under moderately stressful conditions. Aim: learners will recycle vocabulary and/or create short sentences [...]
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Reading – a list of text types

Reading narrative texts Reading factual texts [such as descriptions, announcements, memoranda, advertisements, notices, reports, menus, and agendas]
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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 choose [...]
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47 things you can do with a text…

Perhaps you are very limited in terms of resources for teaching, or you find your resources are inadequete to your learners’ needs. Here are some ideas that you can use with texts. I developed this list while working in Azerbaijan where we only used authentic material – for every level, including beginners…
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Exploiting sources of vocabulary

There are many sources of vocabulary in the classroom. This article looks at three: the course book, specialized vocabulary books, the teacher and other learners.
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