It has just occurred to me that I must have a few dozen more students this year – I even calculated the exact number when I arrived home from work this evening – 114. Considering the fact that the majority of them are quite advanced, designing & marking their tests as well as proofreading their [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Marking Tests & Assignments
Posted in Language Test Construction & Evaluation on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Appropriate Methodology & Social Context
Posted in Educational Technology & TESOL on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There are quite a few terms or shall I say buzz words that seem to be juggled again and again when discussing the topic. I’ll try to jot most of them down to help myself get the gist of the subject matter – in a way it is all about familiar phenomena being labelled/tagged with [...]
ESL/EFL Methodology Course
Posted in Educational Technology & TESOL on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am thoroughly enjoying the course unit I am doing now – everything seems to be relevant and to the point. It feels as if I were doing a 10-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle and someone was helping me a lot in a very discreet, unobtrusive way by providing hints rather than doing anything for me, encouraging [...]
Amusing Words
Posted in mind-boggling thoughts on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is something incredibly amusing about such hyphenated rhyming words as willy-nilly, airy-fairy, nitty-gritty and the like – I really feel like compiling an exhaustive list of those. I wish I had more free time.
Approaches, Methods & Techniques in ELT & possibly other languages:)
Posted in Educational Technology & TESOL on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It looks I’ve got to reread everything I’ve got on the topic, Grammar Translation first, then the Structural Approach and whatever comes next. It is strange that they do not ever mention the Lexical Approach - I absolutly love it. All the groups I happen to teach on Fridays are doing their unit test tomorrow, so I could make [...]
Getting Started
Posted in Educational Technology & TESOL, VLEs on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few notes or should I better say observations? regarding the very beginning. Like in offline classrooms, the first actvity Ss are supposed to enage in is the GTKY. Newbies are asked to introduce themselves and encouraged to make some smalltalk. It is a shame there is no possibility to apply any formatting to messages, [...]
