TEACHING VOCABULARY Jane Spiro has compiled a useful checklist for teachers to use when looking at new nouns with students’, enabling students to understand form and function.  It may also be something helpful to pass onto students to use independently as they’re learning English.  McCarten 2007, [Teaching Vocabulary:  lessons from the corpus, lessons for the … Continue reading Materials for Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar →

Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age The internet and mobile technology is a sea of information and activities making its’ use during lessons a little daunting, applying Lam and Hampel’s [2007: 71] model for online task development to enable the capabilities of technology to meet the demands of class learning objectives.  The initial approach of … Continue reading Materials and Digital Technology →

Task-based Language Learning; Seeks to engage language learners pragmatically, [incorporating some kind of gap, information, opinion or reasoning].  This a “focus on the exchange of meaning” as opposed to form.  However this does not neglect form over communication, Schmidt makes the point that he had been previously instructed on all of the new forms that he … Continue reading Task Design and Evaluation →