Author Archives: Marisa Constantinides

Teacher Successes & Failures

One of the questions we ask prospective candidates applying to follow a Cambridge DELTA course at our centre, is to describe an activity they have used with one of their classes which was successful and one which wasn’t. In both cases, the candidates have to explain why they think this has happened. A typical responseContinueContinue reading “Teacher Successes & Failures”

An interesting blog post discussing Ben Goldacre’s recent article in the Guardian and his thoughts on research for education. Read Ben Goldacre’s article Bad Science here  Watch his TED talk too   Related blog posts  Evidence-informed policy and practice – we should welcome it, but also be realistic! Research and Evidence in ELT  posted by JuliaContinueContinue reading

How to make the most of your DELTA course

This is the summary of an #ELTchat which was written up by Chris Wilson who has himself just started following a DELTA course. You can read the original chat transcript here and Chris’ summary on his blog. On the 15/02/2013 teachers from across the world met to discuss my suggested topic “How to survive andContinueContinue reading “How to make the most of your DELTA course”

This is an opportune blog post as we have been doing language analysis work and discussing theoretical vs pedagogic grammars. Read Scott Thornbury’s post and comment on the validity of the following statements about various modal verbs taken from a variety of pedagogic grammars Please add your reflection in a comments below the post. ExcerptsContinueContinue reading