The Cambridge DELTA Diploma Online We started offering the Cambridge DELTA online with live synchronous sessions in 2014 or so and, of course, as a result, acquired a huge amount of experience about how to deliver course content and support this course well before Zoom became the thing….. It is true that now you canContinueContinue reading “Cambridge DELTA Diploma – more accessible than ever before”
Author Archives: Marisa Constantinides
A is for Advance Organisers
Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts were just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they could analyse and decipher them, would be able to arrive at the overall meaning of the text. But, is this what happensContinueContinue reading “A is for Advance Organisers”
Can you teach a Dogme Lesson on your Cambridge DELTA?
This post was written in response and as part of a twitter conversation with Martin Sketchley – @ELTexperiences on Twitter. His blog post on his own Dogme observed lesson can be found at the end of this post. In the days before writing his experimental assignment for the DELTA course, Jonathan – a summer DELTAContinueContinue reading “Can you teach a Dogme Lesson on your Cambridge DELTA?”
C is for Contextual Guesswork in text
In his great taxonomy of language skills listing*, John Munby mentions “developing sensitivity to context clues”, as one of the microskills of reading. In this post, I would like to share an insight gleaned from an EST (English for Science & Techonology) series of books which was published a very long time ago and whichContinueContinue reading “C is for Contextual Guesswork in text”
E is for Errors
Here is a summary of S.P. Corder’s work on Learner Errors from the Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics Types of Errors Native speakers may produce errors (readily correctable) especially in conditions of stress, indecision and fatigue. It is logical to expect that non-native speakers may do the same. These are called ‘lapses’ and are ofContinueContinue reading “E is for Errors”