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I think you are right. And I think Affective Strategies would be very helpful in teaching listening. As a language learner myself, I also find it is easy to get nervous when you are doing listening comprehension, especially when listening to news, because it is just so fast and you have little time ...

The info you provide me tells me that there has to be a medium point one where experience and academic achievement count equally. Regarding being good test taker i believe we have to be careful of not making test taking an end in itself, learning should be the main goal. Yes, I totally agree with y...

Right now in Puerto Rico a law has been passed that awards teachers that have graduated with with a high grade in their specialty the privilege to skip turns when new positions are available in the Department of Education. Now experience doesn't count. I have openly rejected it because of the fact ...

I think maybe you can just google some classroom activities online and try to apply them into your own teaching. It really needs time and experiments.

I am a university student who majors in English Education. In my class, one student is very good at taking English exams, especially in written tests. But her oral performance and language competence are not considered the best in our class. So, I wondered, do test-taking skills really count a lot i...