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Interesting article about the similarities and, more importantly, the differences in comprehension and experience of reading versus listening to text. Includes lessons for the classroom on the importance and uses of both.
https://theconversation.com/does-listening-to-audiobooks-improve-learning-267817
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.... explicated in curriculum guides and lesson plans... floods experienced teachers with verbal cues that overshadow their trained capacities. It blinds them to the circumstances at hand, strips them of their flexible control, nullifies their underlying vision of what is to be attained, and hence robs them of their sense of mastery. It makes them no more effective, and possibly less so, than novices."
#Pedagogy #Literacy #DeclineInLiteracy #TeachingTheCurriculum #TeachingEnglish #Blog -
Love #YoungAdultLiterature? Whether you're an #EnglishTeacher or a #YA scholar, this 2020 essay collection got some new ideas for you, incl popular topics like #narratology, #dystopia or #GenderStudies approaches
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1685846068
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Philip Smith has a BA in #Theology, English & History, a Diploma in Theology, and teaching qualifications. He taught Religious Studies in school for 24 years. Then he was #teachingEnglish as a Foreign Language (#TEFL) for 15 years in an English Language School and serving as #Chaplain. https://www.easyenglish.bible/people/philip-smith
Philip joined the #EasyEnglish team in the early stage when the #Bible and #commentaries were being written. We pray for more #volunteers of his calibre for our current and future plans.
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Just signed up for a #TEFL course! I'm already doing informal conversations in English, and spending unpaid time preparing for them.
Might as well learn how to teach languages in a structured way and with luck be paid better (but I'm sure my prep time will still be unpaid)!