Category: Teaching EFL
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Easy Self-study: Contextualized Vocabulary Learning with Dictionaries, Corpora, and More
Before you read: The below lead-in contains a lot of vocabulary items for a challenge at the end of the blog. At the moment, ignore the unfamiliar words and phrases (if you have). Go back when I tell you to do so. As a non-native English speaker and a newbie EFL teacher, I am no…
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Corpora Helped Me With Some Language Problems That Dictionaries Cannot
Two weeks ago, in one of my student’s writings, he wrote: “…global warming effects which causes dramatic damages to people at scale.” Putting the grammatical problem with “causes” aside, I was particularly into the phrase “at scale”. “Where on earth has he learned this awkward phrase?”, I wondered. As usual, I went for dictionaries to…
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Making Language Instructions More Content-Based: How Did We Solve Our Problems?
When we together designed activities for teaching English language areas and skills, we strove to achieve at least one of the following: multimodality, content-relatedness, and real-life-task-relatedness.
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Reflections on Designing Input-Based Tasks: Important Concerns
In a previous post, I introduced the concept of input-based tasks in explaining some myths about task-based language teaching (TBLT). This blog will continue with some notes on designing an input-based task that Professor Rod Ellis brought into discussion in our talk. Following the principles and concerns, I will also include an example with illustrations.…
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Key Takeaways From “Applying Learning Theories and Instructional Design Models for Effective Instruction” (Khalil & Elkhider, 2016)
… faculty members teaching higher education subject matters usually lack a profound understanding of designing and delivering instructions scientifically and efficiently. Therefore, the article is written with two main objectives, (1) to examine learning and instructional design theoretically and (2) to suggest a practical framework based on the theoretical evidence
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Decoding Myths About TBLT: Views of a Leading Theorist
Hopefully, this sharing blog can better understand TBLT and, specifically, input-based tasks. What I can gain from the talk is not that TBLT is an optimal teaching practice and can outdo all other approaches but that TBLT is more applicable than I used to think.
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A quick review with personal account on learning motivation and suggestions for EFL teachers
A reflection on my learning experience has suggested that motivation should come first at the beginning of the learning journey to help learners actively participate in the learning process. Motivation can be derived from materialistic awards initially, and teachers should make the most of these to activate students’ interest and sustain it for the entire…
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A review of how humour can be exploited in foreign language classrooms
Sadly, some teachers have been traditionally distant from students in the Vietnamese public schools where I studied. In many cases, telling jokes and uttering laughter are not considered polite enough as a teacher.
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Hướng dẫn tạo tài khoản miễn phí cho giáo viên trên Liveworksheet.com
Điểm cộng lớn nhất của trang web này là học sinh sẽ có thể làm bài ngay trên trang Liveworksheet.com mà không cần phải tải thêm bất cứ ứng dụng nào, hay phải in tài liệu ra giấy làm rồi chụp hình gửi cho giáo viên. Trước tình hình hiện tại, mình thấy đây là…
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Một ý tưởng sử dụng Liveworksheet.com khi không có sách giáo khoa
Với ý tưởng này, tài liệu được soạn trên đây có thể đóng vai trò như bài tập về nhà có sẵn những ghi chú bổ sung về kiến thức để học sinh ôn tập, hoặc như học liệu điện tử của một lớp học đảo ngược, được gửi cho học sinh trước khi đến…
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