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THanks a lot for your reply. Could you describe one or two activities, pls

Hi everybody, I was wonderning if anybody'd been teaching pronunciation in a comunicative way recently (i.e. NOT drilling, memorizing, transcribing but focusing on a non-linguistic element in game-like activities)? Could you share your experience? ANY ideas are most welcome. Secondly, has anybody ta...

Hi, I hope I can help on that if it's not too late. The grammatical category of Number is quite a simple one to comprehend unless you're a Japanese or Chinese speaker. In Japanese, for instance, the distinction between countable and uncountable is not recognised, therefore plural/singular forms pose...

Hi everyone, I wouldn't quite agree with the statement that speaking is not learning. A lot of language specialists (Krashen learning/aquiring hypothesis; Terrel) argue that teaching grammar by means of direct instruction (explicitly) is of secondary importance in language classrooms. Supporters of ...

Observing qualified teachers in action is a very good idea! In fact, observation is a never ending process as it's a powerful professionl development tool. There are many different ways to observe a lesson. However, since it's something you've nevr done before, you could just watch and notice to you...

Thanks a lot for your reply. Hopefully, the book you recommended will help me with my research. At least I can start somewhere... If you come across/remember anything else on observation/peer-observation etc. please let me know. I'm particularly interested in pros and cons of marking system or somet...

Hi everyone! I'm doing an independent research project on classroom observations by senior teachers. It's about how observed teachers' thoughts about being observed may prove useful for the design of the observation process itself. The problem I'm facing is that from my admittedly brief review of th...