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Category: Research
How would you say these example sentences? a. I think that's the right answer, but I'm not sure. b. I think that's the right answer, no matter what you say! I'm guessing that "I" and "think" sounded different when you said these two sentences to yourself - and it is this difference that is interesting … Continue reading Perceiving Prominence – Part #1 (the “What?”)
A while back, I summarised an article for ELT Research Bites exploring the reasons why language teaching professionals rarely access primary research reports. The main findings were that practitioners may have negative perceptions of research as irrelevant, they may face practical constraints such as expensive pay walls and a lack of time to find and … Continue reading How to access ELT-relevant research
In this article, Northcott, Gillies and Coutlon explore their students' perceptions of how effective online formative feedback was for improving their postgraduate academic writing, and aim to highlight best practices for online writing feedback.
Dr Jenny Skipp Exhibiting CLIL: Developing Student Skills through project-based learning My dear colleague Jenny has just held her first ever presentation at an iatefl conference! It was a very well delivered talk, with a perfect balance of theory and practical ideas teachers can adapt into their own teaching. It'll probably be of most interest with … Continue reading Exhibiting CLIL: Developing student skills through project-based learning
Followers of my blog will know that I believe we, as language teachers, all need to understand the pedagogical underpinnings of what we do in our language classrooms. That's why I aim in my blog posts to provide information on theoretical backgrounds and lesson materials which apply them practically. I would also love for more … Continue reading ELT Research Bites
Here are the slides (inc. references) from my talk yesterday as part of the British Council's "Teaching for Success" online conference. This talk takes research into feedback practices & translates it into practical ideas for classroom application! Click here for Slides. Link to the recorded talk: http://britishcouncil.adobeconnect.com/p424b8xlubb/ Abstract: Providing meticulous correction of errors and hand-written summaries on each … Continue reading British Council Teaching for Success – My Webinar
A recent focus of work into feedback in ELT looks at ways of increasing students’ openness to teachers’ feedback and how students can be stimulated to engage more thoroughly with the feedback they receive. Learner-Driven Feedback (LDF) seems to be a promising practice here, and below is a summary of some research done in this area. … Continue reading Learner-Driven Feedback in Essay Writing
