One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “One difference in favor of good language learners? I believe a good learner does wish to learn, for example English or Hindi or... This is a remarkable and clear trait of that person. He or she makes good use of any situation where they can speak, or practice in general. He offers ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “A teacher of math, literature, English... cannot confine his work to pass on, to teach, information, knowledge, math operations, the theoretical part of English..., but he or she has to teach their students to learn; to learn what? That information, knowledge, linguistic competence for ...

Many people think that for adults it is much more difficult to learn a foreign language – English in our case – than infants. Even they think that adults would never learn a language really, actually, practically, naturalistically. The next text can help you and me to gain some fresh view about this point. Should you, like a kid, try to pick ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “It’s not necessary for you to repeat aloud the words or the sentences your students say as a response to your questions or prompts. I guess you may do it inadvertently. You want to repeat their answers – sentences or words – for their classmates to hear clearly, or like your ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Something helpful you can do with your students is to get the most from their textbooks. The students at a first moment could see the pages of the English coursebook as something full of pictures and mixed activities, one activity similar in format to the next one. Teach them the ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “One teacher used to praise their students for their struggling and effort to improve their studying and learning. He was quite demanding with the students. However he knew how to reckon the students’ work. Passing the exams was crucial, but at the same time he praised his students’ ...

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One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Revision is necessary to learn English. We can revise grammar and vocabulary of past units, even of past years. It’s necessary to obtain a communicative competence with the help of knowledge and practice stuck in mind and ‘at hand’. We can revise all this stuff in the form of warmers at ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “The day before yesterday a friend of mine asked me again what else she could do to learn English. And I told her, I think it’s like a summary of my experience, ‘Look, Carmen, speak in English and enjoy learning English.’ ” / I liked this picture, above, as many others I have posted on my ...

Here is a summary of points that may be considered when teaching a language, in my opinion. I have also taken them from my former blog. Any useful? I mixed some ideas of mine and some by scholars, like for example pedagogue Víctor García Hoz. 1. Learning a language should be a profoundly human process. 2. It serves communication among people. 3. ...