If you’re bilingual, or you know some English plus obviously your mother language, say for example, Spanish, and wish your children would learn English since they’re babies or very young, I recommend you to read the inspiring article by Shelley Vernon, of which I give you the link: ...

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 ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “One of the big things of the Internet is that I’m connecting with teachers of English all the world wide: it’s something pretty good. I tell other teachers about my experiences and also learn from them – otherwise I’d tend to do the same things all time in my classes! Also I learn ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “I’m glad to ascertain that young learners, 8 or 9 years, use English as another way of communicating, like in Spanish, their L1. English for them is another ‘something’ that they naturally utilize in the class of English, to listen to what their teacher’s telling them. I guess ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Pragmatics is a relatively new area in learning languages. And it’s so important. There remains a lot to study and develop. Look. We can have the language, we can master it, right, but learners of English have to be tactful when speaking with speakers of other languages. Imagine a ...

Here is an oral presentation on TEFL. I hope it would be any helpful for you. Picture from the website of institutosantamarta. CLM presentationFernando Díez Gallego Begun on 6 May 2010 Theme: What makes a good teacher of English? My experiences and research on TEFL Self-introduction, and introduction to the presentation. The goal of teaching ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, ''I've lately been thinking of female teachers, ye know? In Spain there are more women than men dedicated to teach English - better said, to help their students to become more and more autonomous learners. I have noticed some digg qualities women have. They have something, say, characteristic, peculiar to ...

Picture: streets in Baile Átha Cliath, the Celtic Irish name of Dublin. I'm grateful to 2bp blogspot com. Apéndice 5 Some anthropological basement For our everyday work 22 August 2006 Learning a language should be a profoundly human action. And humane as well. It serves the purpose to enable to communicate among ...

One day teacher A said to teacher B, ''A few days ago teacher C told me that right after the classes, when she was clearing up her stuff, some girls used to come to her desk, just to talk with her, to chat for a small while, just to have a peek at her stuff, and things like thtat. Other times one girl spoke with her, when waiting for the rest of ...