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The Questions We Ask

6 April 2018 Hugh Dellar Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley explore questions about vocabulary that give you more feedback from your learners. Perhaps the most common kind of question that many teachers learn to ask during initial training is Concept-Checking Questions (CCQs). The basic idea is that after explaining what something means, teachers need to

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dictation in your elt classroom

Dictation Re-imagined

20 July 2017 Alex Warren Teaching Adults Leave a comment

Many moons ago when I was learning French at school, our teacher always insisted on doing dictations. He absolutely loved them, and yes, you guessed it, we hated them. Apart from anything else they were boring and repetitive and we didn’t really see the point in them. So imagine my

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Speaking Out for Spoken English

26 April 2017 Hugh Dellar Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 20 comments

The earliest grammars of English were, for obvious reasons, based on written models of the language. In the absence of any way to record everyday speech, written texts provided a solid base upon which scholarly works could be built. In addition, both grammarians and lexicographers frequently had a deep mistrust

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