Vocabulary Acquisition Learning vocabulary in large quantities remains a problem in the second or foreign language classroom. The advice on how many words to teach in each lesson varies, from 5 to 10 or 12. Yet, students need masses and masses of it to make progress – it’s not the grammar that makes theContinueContinue reading “V is for Vocabulary Acquisition”
Category Archives: Module 2
Task Based Language Teaching or Lexical Approach?
Task Based Language Teaching is a topic discussed on all TEFL courses and, especially on the Cambridge DELTA course, we expect to see it in action, at least beyond the beginner level. I have taken the liberty of copy-pasting the site introduction to the site which is not visible from the front page of theContinueContinue reading “Task Based Language Teaching or Lexical Approach?”
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”