TO BLAB / BLABBER TAGARELAR, FALAR MUITO I did try to listen, but she just kept blabbering on. Eu até tentei prestar atenção, mas ela matraqueava a não mais poder. Quem fala demais e/ou conta segredos é um blabbermouth.
TO SHOOT THE BREEZE / BULL (US) JOGAR CONVERSA…
There is a growing and vocal debate about the usefulness or desirability of using students’ L1 in language learning situations. Past language teaching methods, from immersion to foreign‐language teaching, have placed a strong emphasis on “target language only” in the…
“Escola!”. Quando se fala em escola o pensamento mais provável de grande parte das pessoas é: giz, lousa, cadernos, professores, alunos, etc. Todavia, existe um extenso e árduo trabalho nos seus bastidores para garantir que: as aulas sejam de qualidade, os alunos…
A escola de idiomas do Grêmio da Escola Politécnica da USP nasceu no início da década de 90, ainda com o nome “Centro de Idiomas”. O projeto tinha como objetivo proporcionar, inicialmente apenas aos politécnicos, a possibilidade de estudar idiomas com qualidade de…
by Lyle French and Karen Fraser Colby de Mattos
L&K:
Tara you have been at the Centre for Advanced Research on Language
Acquisition (CARLA) for many years. While there you have researched,
visited and written aboutcontent-based language…
1 – Mobile learning in the EFL-classroom. A quick overview.
Mobile devices and their applications are not cutting-edge technology anymore. They are part of our everyday lives. The number of edtech websites, printed and digital materials has drastically risen, many…
The term ‘bilingual school’ is a rather broad label used in
Brazil to refer to various models of second language teaching and learning.
Most progammes that fall under the blanket term ‘bilingual education’ promise
to educate learners in two languages with three…
JS: Luiz, thanks for agreeing to speak to us. First
question: How did you get into coursebook writing?
LOB: I became a teacher in 1990, and way back then, to
my coordinators’ despair, I was already writing my own handouts
(=photocopies!), flashcards and OHTs to…
Si ponemos el foco en diferentes épocas de la historia, rápidamente
percibiremos cómo los contextos socioculturales que envuelven cada época son consustanciales
a los conceptos educativos instaurados en los centros de enseñanza, así como a
las estratégias pedagógicas…
