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Myanmar – Reading and Listening Skills: Receptive but not passive!

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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The CAMELTA Conference 2022

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, …

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Designing Tasks for LGBTQAI+ Inclusive Teaching and Learning in EFL Education

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

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 …

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Visual Literacy and Visual Thinking: Seeing Beyond the Surface

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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The Globe Gathering – Mini Conference April 2022

One of things we wanted to do when we started the Globe community, was bring people together who wouldn’t normally bump into each other in their daily working lives. We were particularly keen to create connections with educators from different cultural contexts and in different geographical regions around the world. We were and are also very …

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