Myanmar – Reading and Listening Skills: Receptive but not passive! When learners are listening or reading, there may not appear to be much happening, but it would be a mistake to regard these receptive skills as purely passive. If the text is engaging and the learners are motivated, the cognitive and affective processing that is …
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Think globally, act locally: materials adaptation As every teacher knows, there is no such thing as the perfect coursebook. Published materials are always written for idealised teaching situations and always require some degree of adaptation to meet the needs of the learner in particular classrooms. Indeed, we could say that the teachers are always the …
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Alan Mackenzie spent three weeks in Cuba Oct-Nov 2022 delivering a series of workshops for the British Council ELT Road Show Cuba #InglesparaElDesarrollo2022 help face to face in the different locations: Havana, Santa Clara and Cienfuegos. This event is part of the capacity building actions for the teachers and students (teachers in training) of EFL …
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LPA – Agency for promoting Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan In partnership with NILE, TransformELT provided a 12-week course (April-June 2022) for the Innovative Centre in Samarkand, preparing teachers for Cambridge Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT). Support and guidance were also provided for Cambridge Delta. The TKT course was delivered remotely via Zoom and supported with asynchronous feedback …
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The CAMELTA Conference On the 25th May 2022, Globe hosted the ‘CAMELTA Research Group and Department of English ENS Yaounde joint conference’. This event was hosted by Erik Ekembe, the Researching in the English Classroom PLC mentor, which consisted of presenters from Mexico, Congo, Sierra Leone, India and more. It was Co-chaired by Catherine Motto, CAMELTA National President, …
Designing Tasks for LGBTQAI+ Inclusive Teaching and Learning in EFL Education Thorsen Merse leads a very informative webinar and provides much food for thought about textbook content and opportunities for showcasing inclusivity. He leads the LGBTQAI+ PLC where you can take this concept further or start a new discussions. Recording of all these live events …
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Deep processing Jeremy Harmer talked us through the connection between ‘deep processing’ and language learning by exploring the following questions: 1. How do learners remember words and phrases? 2. How does automaticity happen? 3. What drives students to learn in the first place? He illustrated his points by sharing some classroom activities and finished the …
Feeling fine with playtime Griselda Beacon and Katy Kelly pose some really thought provoking questions and share some fascinating insights into the way young learners learn through play. Watch the video and join the conversation in their Young Learners PLC
Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking: Seeing beyond the surface Sharon Hartle is joined by her PhD student Georgia Andreolli in highlighting the benefits of helping our learners develop their visual thinking strategies alongside their language learning. They also demonstrate how important it is to word our inquiry questions in such a way as to open …
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Mental Illness Representation in ELT Materials- Post session update Our thanks to Lottie and Phil for a starting this conversation around representing mental illness in ELT materials. For those of you who missed it – the video will be available here shortly and in our video library.
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