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Comment on A guest blog post by Lindsey Wright; Use Technology that Enhances Curriculum in English Classes by agence immobiliere taroudant

agence immobiliere taroudant — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:45 +0000

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Comment on WANTED: University Level Pre-Service ELT Educators in Turkey- where are you? by Scotty

Scotty — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:38:06 +0000

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Comment on A guest blog post by Lindsey Wright; Use Technology that Enhances Curriculum in English Classes by Web Design Cheltenham

Web Design Cheltenham — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:19:34 +0000

Great resource, thanks for sharing.

Comment on Scenario 1 for you to evaluate in terms of effective language teaching by Başak Temel

Başak Temel — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:34:03 +0000

I mean, warm up can be usable. I will try actually but there are some problems. T didn’t focus on language clearly. It hasn’t in order organize. T should have given
parallel example as you want. Moreover, Group work assures collabration and communication. Students take courage with group work. They can correct things they do not understand and can talk each other.

Comment on Scenario 1 for you to evaluate in terms of effective language teaching by Fulya Doğru

Fulya Doğru — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:28:35 +0000

1-Showing pictures which makes Ss guess. Trying to guess something makes Ss think about which structure should be used. The wrong thing in this lesson is that T does not make clear the structure and does not explain or give more example. Then t expects Ss understand the structure and speak.
2-I think this lesson is contextual lesson.
3-Group work requires communication.They should talk about their guess.
4-I think can is not enough to expressing our guess so I think this lesson is not so coherent.It is uncompleted under the title of modals.
5-I think T tries to prepare Ss to the structure and see what Ss use for guess.So T uses the knowledge of Ss and teaches Ss the unknown. The unknown thing turns into a new learn thing.
6-I think grammar or structure is more important than meaning for T.

Comment on Scenario 1 for you to evaluate in terms of effective language teaching by Sevim Açıkgöz

Sevim Açıkgöz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:09:33 +0000

I think warm up activity is a good one. I would do the same. Showing engaging and relevant pictures is a good start but it seems that there is something wrong with the lesson. I think that the problem is delivery. Teacher should have reinforced the language point more efficiently. She should have asked some concept checking questions and also instructions checking questions. She should have given the language input more efficiently. I think that stages is not well organized. It could have been more engaging and relevant. What the teacher wanted students to recognize is not clear. She could make her students understand what they are doing and why they are doing that. She could have been a role model before giving them a class activity. It is very normal that students ara puzzled and blocked because they did not get a proper input and the teacher wanted them to produce sentences without reinforcing the language target. Group work requires collaboration and communication. Students must look at the pictures, talk to each other and make predictions.

Comment on “He who stops being better stops being good.” Oliver Cromwell by aybikeoguz

aybikeoguz — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:32:57 +0000

Great list Burcu! Thank you!

Comment on “He who stops being better stops being good.” Oliver Cromwell by Laura

Laura — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:39:58 +0000

Fantastic post, Burcu! Thank you for your insightful comments!

Comment on Jeremy’s Six Questions to the world of TESOL by burcutezcan2000

burcutezcan2000 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:15:20 +0000

Thank you for your comment. They are asked by Jeremy Harmer And you are so right they are thought provoking..

Comment on Jeremy’s Six Questions to the world of TESOL by masalaeltandchai

masalaeltandchai — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:37:20 +0000

Hey Burcu,
These 6 questions have prodded me a lot in the past to think and answer but I have always succumbed to laziness and chosen not to start thinking about them. I think I am going to follow the trend of Blog Challenges and try to answer these 6 questions in the days to come.
Thank you for posting the questions and your thoughts on them. It’s a provoking post.
Cheers!

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