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Teacher B said to teacher A, “Something unfortunately many young people do not know how to do is to summarize. You, teacher of English, can teach your students to do that. Have them read a rather long text. Have them read it carefully, rather many times. Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “I’ve seen in my classes how young kids speak in English as another means to communicate, together with Spanish, their mother tongue. On the other side and from my experience of teaching retired people, they trend to translate, Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “Teaching as service. This is an interesting perception of teaching. In English language teachers’ case they don’t just teach English. You don’t just teach and present a lesson and go home. These teachers help their students Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “Intuition is a key factor to learn and acquire a foreign or second language. We receive some clues about what two people are talking about: we understand some words, we perceive gestures, face expressions, intonation, repetition, Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “A non-native teacher of English should identify with that language, as much as possible, as if he was a native speaker - but without a double personality: you're you yourself. H. D. Brown and others have said one good thing Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “Something sound is making real communication in English in classes. Don’t worry for you may think the students won’t understand. It matters little. Something, just necessary, is massive listening to, before speaking. What Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “Assigning homework, yes or no? I would say a qualified Yes. At home students can revise what they learned at school on that day, in a more calm way. As a result they can internalize and embrace for example the grammar they Read More...
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Great and expert H. D. Brown said, Virtually every strategy or gimmick that has been mentioned so far in this book can become a little game. And remember, games are fun. You can take a lighthearted perspective on this language learning process of yours Read More...
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One day teacher A said to teacher B, “Learning a language depends on oneself. H. D. Brown, about whom I wrote a journal paper, often says “your own…”. In this blog I’ve said many things about that paper and an interesting book by H. D. Brown. Success Read More...
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In our English classes we try to only use the target language, like for example English. However, as expert H. D. Brown puts “[…] we’re pretty well stuck with [our] native language system that we automatically use as a reference system, or map, for the Read More...
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One day teacher A said to teacher B, “It’s just essential the students take the reins of the horse of their process of learning English or any other language. In that way, they’ll be the protagonists of that process. One possible way – you can do it in Read More...
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One day teacher A said to teacher B, “The language learner who achieves the goal of mastering that language and being able to communicate in that language is the person who really, actually wishes to learn and acquire the language. He will invest a big Read More...
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Here is part of an appendix from my book (I wrote a book but I did rather little to get it published). I would feel delighted if what follows is useful to you in some way. I have changed some details. Apéndice 7 It’s their responsibility Note.- Inspired Read More...
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I implement many games with my young students and it turns out okay. I’ve written a lot about games in this blog. Even you’ve got a list of more than one hundred games on post # 259. An expert on learning languages is H. D. Brown, about whom I’ve also Read More...
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Here I am again, to tell you about the dialogs I’ve heard from the two teachers: One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “We teachers should be aware of good students’ attitude to learning a foreign (or a second) language. Those high-achieving Read More...
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