In
a recent post about motivating teenagers, Joanna Budden, who teaches
English in Spain, suggested three attitudes of a motivational
teacher: authenticity; acceptance and empathy. Her findings were
based on Carl Rogers’ work, who stated that that
for a person to…
Métodos alternativos de ensino vêm sendo estudados desde os anos 60 e inseridos em escolas mundiais com mais relevância a partir do final da década de 70 e início da de 80. Com propostas modernas, essas pedagogias priorizam o estímulo dos talentos pessoais, as artes, o…
Nina Lobackis Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.)
Elections this year have caused controversy and the heated debate is not only protagonized by politicians on the news but…
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a term coined by a group of scholars led by Dr. David. Marsh in 1994 in Europe, inaugurated a new era for language learning and teaching worldwide.
Although most of the concepts the term embraces are nothing new, the fact…
SLEAZEBAG
PESSOA DESONESTA, IMORAL, INESCRUPULOSA; SAFADO, SACANAHe’s a real sleazebag.Ele é muito safado.Sleazebag vem da palavra sleazy, que significa sujo, desonesto, imoral.Também se diz sleazeball ou sleaze.
A PAIN IN THE ASS/BUTT (US)
UM PÉ NO SACOShe’s…
Design
Thinking in education is taking off worldwide as an effective way to
come up with solutions in schools, institutions and communities. It
is an opportunity for teachers and leaders to foster active problem
solving within the environments they work in involving…
Revisiting fabulous basic online tools – and learning how to put those adjectives in the correct order! - Richmond
10/09/2018
Nina Loback is Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.)
As Google has been around for more than 20 years now, we might forget how useful and rich a tool it can be in the language classroom.
It depends on the context: essa velha conhecida frase pode representar muito mais do que o senso comum. Uma das acepções de contexto, segundo o dicionário Michaelis é: “aquilo que constitui a totalidade do texto”. Ora, podemos, então, afirmar que uma ideia…
Nostalgia. As one gets older, it is easier to have this feeling since life experiences are such that books could be written about each moment. The first kiss, first love, a surprise birthday party, moments with parents and loved ones, travels, every person tends to be…
