The quality of learning and learner engagement is closely tied to the concept of interaction patterns. What proportion of the questions you ask are open-ended? How often do you get your learners to interact with each other? Are they given …
Interaction patterns and the constructivist approach to learning Go to post »
Are you a researcher or is reading research a part of your professional development? Find out about the Planck Principle and watch to the end for my call to action.
Last spring I came across a tweet promoting a series of webinars by prominent researchers for the MA/PhD in applied linguistics at Mary Immaculate College. Dr. Anne O’Keefe’s talk, entitled Looking at learner grammar competency rather than error: What makes …
High impact grammar: teaching adverbs with corpora Go to post »
The assumption that being a native speaker of English makes you better able to teach it is becoming increasingly untenable. While this shift in attitude is a welcome one, it has yet to lead to a level playing field in …
Reframing the native-speaker debate: give interlanguage its due Go to post »
In my recent TESOL Spain talk I discussed teachers’ relationship to technology, our sense of identity and Marshall McLuhan’s conception of the media as an extension of the central nervous system. the teacher as cyborg media theory and online learning
This tutorial shows how to use Google Docs and Grammarly to identify mistakes in your writing so that you can improve it dramatically. If you are a teacher go ahead and share this with your students. Proofreading is an invaluable …
Improve your writing with Google Docs and Grammarly Go to post »
Find out how to use high-quality images and texts from Instagram to create challenging and engaging online jigsaw reading tasks for group or pair work. This tutorial includes tips on using Google docs, breakout rooms, QR codes and annotating texts …
Using Instagram content for engaging jigsaw readings Go to post »
In his recent webinar on learning vocabulary Paul Nation pointed out that we can harness our students’ fear of losing face for greater uptake and that regular review of “old material” should take up fully one third of a course. …
Before attending Paul Nation’s recent webinar entitled “What matters in vocabulary learning?” I had only a passing acquaintance with his work. I knew that he advocated the use of flashcards and that alone was enough to put him in my …
By uploading recordings of pair or group conversations from Zoom we can easily expand the range of speaking tasks we set for our students in Flipgrid. How to Record a meeting in Zoom (by Flipped Classroom Tutorials) SLB Webinar – …
Zoom + Flipgrid = better speaking tasks for remote learning Go to post »
