Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Following are a number of statements extracted from What Research Has To Say About Reading Instruction Read the rest of this entry »
automatic
- largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex
- acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously
automatize
- to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]
The Vocabox
Activities for developing and activating vocabulary in the English classroom (the original idea came from Joanna Stirling July 2000 Bell Teacher Training Summerfest)
Introduction
One constantly hears of presenting this that and the other. In fact in some institutions, the word “present” seems to be repeated one hundred and one times more than the word “recycle”… Read the rest of this entry »
The circle game: You say and I listen
This type of activity lends itself to ımproving group cohesion through a cooperative or collaborative task involving listening and speaking.
‘Cooperative learning is group learning activity organised in such a way that learning is dependent on the socially structured exchange of information between learners in groups. Each leaner is held accountable for his or her own learning, and is motivated to increase the learning of others.’
In dictogloss, learners work in cooperative groups to recreate a text that has either been read aloud to the class by the teacher or presented as an audio recording.
What is the purpose of dictogloss? Read the rest of this entry »
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