Jack Scholes: First of all, could you please tell us briefly a little about your background and how you became a teacher and then Corporate Academic Manager at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília?
Isabela Villas Boas: I am what some call an “accidental teacher”. I have…
English Language Teaching (ELT) has changed throughout the years. For a long time, several methods have been employed to ensure learners’ development of their communicative skills. Teachers and schools have relied on second language acquisition theories and in-class…
Look inside
A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons. A glance at any web-site, discussion forum or social…
If I had to reduce all of cognitive psychology to one principle it would be this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.(Ausubel, 1978: flyleaf)
This is a quote from a…
The use of authentic materials in language classes has been around for a while. As someone who learned English before YouTube was a thing, I have probably seen more excerpts of Friends episodes in class than on TV. The abundance of available sources has meant that it is even…
“What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?” Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice seems to be claiming for a book with pictures and probably meaningful words. Would that be a picturebook?
And what is a…
SCOTCH, SCOTS, SCOTTISH Escocês
Her husband is Scots and drinks Scotch whisky in a Scottish pub. O marido dela é escocês e toma uísque escocês em um bar escocês.
Do inglês arcaico Scottas, as três palavras Scotch, Scots e Scottish significam “escocês”, mas o uso…
A thought-provoking question for teachers
For most of my teaching life, speaking lessons worked somehow like this: I would teach a grammar or vocabulary lesson, and at the end of this, students would have perhaps ten to fifteen minutes of “interaction”, and this was…
Guia Especial
O trabalho de robótica nasceu em 2015, da vontade de transformar o aprendizado dos estudantes da periferia da zona sul da cidade de São Paulo. O trabalho foi estruturado a partir de um problema trazido pelos alunos “o lixo” que impedia os estudantes de…
