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Life under lockdown
Here’s a lesson based on the topic of confinement and cabin fever which is meant for C1/C2 students and contains a Quizlet set for review. It can be used for self-study or with groups as it incorporates discussion prompts. These …
Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin: early feminist fiction tackling sex and race
#literature #shortstory #katechopin #feministpedagogy #languagelearning #feminism #EFL #C1#C2 #Quizlet Want to try out using fiction with your advanced (C1/C2) class? Check out this lesson. The materials include a biographical note on the author, footnotes explaining key lexical chunks with hyperlinks …
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Digital Dogme: Tips for recording and retrieving emergent language
#EmergentLanguage #SpacedRetrieval #Dogme #DigitalDogme #PivotOnline #GoogleDocs #Quizlet #TeacherTips #EFL #LexicalApproach #TeachingOnline Everyone and their dog is teaching online nowadays. This sudden transition has caused a fair amount of stress and I worry that our collective rush to get on with …
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From Russia With Love
#literature #shortstory #chekhov #love #languagelearning #C1 #C2 #Quizlet Want to try out using fiction with your advanced (C1/C2) class? Check out this lesson. I’ve taken Chekhov’s short story Love and adapted it with footnotes highlighting key lexical chunks as well …
Pairing Google Docs with Breakout Rooms: a hack for better feedback
#BreakOutRooms #GoogleDocs #Zoom #ELearning #EdTech #Feedback #EmergentLanguage #Dogme #HighDemandELT During yesterday’s SLB webinar on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and FlipGrid, my SLB colleagues Anita Derecskei , James Venner and I ended up talking about how Google Docs is a handy tool …
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Is online language learning in the eye (movements) of the beholder?
My colleagues at the SLB Coop recently retweeted the article The interplay between attention, experience and skills in online language teaching. (Shi, Stickler, and Lloyd http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1515/cercles-2017-0007). The authors studied three language teachers to determine whether the amount of experience they …
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Talking about cause and effect
#cause #effect #c1 #c2 #cae #proficiency #lexicalapproach #lexicalchunks #philosophy #criticalthinking This advanced vocabulary lesson deals with two articles by Oliver Burkeman from his column “This Column Will Change Your Life”. Whether this lesson will also change your life is entirely …
Quizlet: A pocket-sized language laboratory
#quizlet #syllabusdesign #spacedretrieval #corpora #lexicalapproach #lexicalpriming #dogme #cotext #demandhighELT #emergentlanguage These slides formed the basis of my talk at the Jornades Multilingües 2020 at the Escola d’idiomes moderns (Universitat de Barcelona). In these slides you’ll find information on how to …
Talking about trends and fads
This slideshow is designed around a brief text containing words and phrases related to trends and fads. If you do it in pairs or groups begin by discussing the ideas in the text (i.e. the first slide) before looking at …