With the new academic year being in full swing and just before the dawn of a new calendar year is there a chance that you feel you need to rethink or enrich some of the techniques and tasks that you use? If so, then experimenting with blended learning principles is an alternative that you could try.
Blended learning is not a new term or practice of...
The calls and duties of teachers are many; diverse, multifold, and demanding.
The practice of teaching English grows so overwhelmingly that one might miss to experience the lesson from the learners’ standpoint.
A mixed-ability classroom is a group of learners with extraordinarily inhomogeneous abilities, life and academic experiences, and needs. The...
Monitoring learner progress throughout the course can be a useful source of information for the teacher. Even though we tend to rely heavily on tests (summative assessment) to grade learners, summative assessment can give us an opportunity to have a clear picture of the impact of our teaching so that we can adapt it or shift focus on areas our learners...
Kazantzakis: ‘You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.’
If you happen to wonder what CLIL is, here is the answer…
CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. What that means in real life is learning another (content) subject such as physics or geography through the medium of a foreign language as...
Covid-19 was no doubt a stressful time for teachers. I myself suffered my first ever migraine; a result, I believe, of so-called Zoom-fatigue. However, it was also the trigger for much ‘forced experimentation’: the idea that an unwelcome imposition can push us to change our habits and, in the process, develop new skills. In fact, I’d go as far as to say...
Throughout my long career I have been committed to two fundamental goals: the professional development of my teachers and using the learning environment as a space to develop identities. In this article I would like to show how these goals can be addressed within the context of teachers striving to give meaningful roles to their students. These roles relate...
The 11th of October is known as the national day of the child girl. I think I read it somewhere online and I got to thinking how people, especially children, shape all of their beliefs and grow up knowing which color is “more suitable” for girls and why boys are rarely allowed to show preference or play with “girls' toys”. Then I had another bunch of...
“Empathy is a choice, and a vulnerable choice because in order to connect with you, I have to connect with something in myself that knows that feeling”. During a management course in July, I came across a video (‘Brene Brown on Empathy’ you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw ) which illustrated the differences between empathy...
Introduction
Over the last 30 years or so, computers have had quite an impact on language testing. As regards Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) in particular, it is currently on the leading edge of assessment technology.
Defining and exploring CAT
CAT is a sophisticated method of test delivery that tailors test question...
