Thursday, December 29, 2016
5 Speaking Rules you need to know!
57 ways to improve your fluency
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
NEST: always the right choice?
Nine interesting foreign language research findings you may not know about
Monday, December 19, 2016
The science of storytelling: why telling a story is the most powerful way to activate our brains
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
What to look for when you're buying land for permaculture
Monday, December 12, 2016
ESL teachers board / job adds
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
InterNations Community of Expats in Bulgaria!
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Sunday, November 13, 2016
!!! Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills
Strategies for Developing Speaking Skills < nclrc.org
Speaking Strategies for English Learners < esl.about.com
Many English students complain that they understand English, but don't feel confident enough to join a conversation. There are a number of reasons for this including:
- Students are trying to translate from their native language into English.
- Production "blocking" is occurring due to nervousness, lack of confidence, etc.
- The speaker is looking for a specific word, rather than using simple language to describe what is meant.
- There aren't enough conversation opportunities in or outside of class.
- Students aren't able to speak to peers (for example: mixed classes of adults and teenagers).
- Exam preparation focuses on grammar, vocabulary, etc. and leaves little time for active use.
“Say That Again?” Why We Should Teach Strategies for Listening and Speaking < efftips.wordpress.com
Understanding that proper strategy use is contextualized – that it will vary by situation – is key to students’ ability to apply strategies to real life tasks. It is not enough to simply present a strategy and have students practice it during academic tasks.Instruction must explore how that strategy will be applied in a variety of different real-world activities – or contexts – in order to be sure students can use the strategy to meet varied communication purposes.
HOW CAN I IMPROVE ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS? speakalley.com
- Speak out loud. ...
- Develop intrapersonal communication. ...
- Try to imitate/emulate/reproduce/mirror/copy the speakers you admire. ...
- Watch News. ... L
- Pick a topic to talk about. ...
- Paint a picture with your words. ...
- Watch the TV shows you like. ... L
- Listen to podcasts. L
... R
Typical speaking tasks
- Talk about yourself
- Describe a photo or picture
- Discussion
- Information gap activity
- Tell a story or personal anecdote
- Oral presentation
Teaching speaking skills 1< teachingenglish.org.uk
Using Speaking Strategies [pre-, during, post...] < docs.google.com / sites.google.com/site/literacyonline
Teaching Speaking: Activities to Promote Speaking in a Second Language < iteslj.org
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
How to Teach Listening in the ESL Classroom
http://www.fluentu.com/english/educator/blog/esl-listening-skills/
Teaching Listening
Strategies for Developing Listening Skills,
http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/listening/stratlisten.htm
Five essential listening skills for English learners,
https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/five-essential-listening-skills-english-learners
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Lost Luggage – Speaking Activity
Monday, October 31, 2016
Native English speaker = better teacher?
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Interesting www.readwrite.com Contact page
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The internet of things (IoT) and Connected World
The internet of things – who wins, who loses?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/14/internet-of-things-winners-and-losers-privacy-autonomy-capitalism
IoT: Ingenious or Intrusive?
https://connectedworld.com/iot-ingenious-or-intrusive/
Sunday, October 16, 2016
7 tips that will help you create better web videos when using a script and teleprompter..
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Monday, October 10, 2016
Developing Citizens of the World: Teaching a Second Language in Montessori
Helpful Foreign Language Resources
Sunday, October 9, 2016
I SHORT ARTICLES Year 12; Issue 6; December 2010, ISSN 1755-9715 From Summerhill to ELT: Promoting Democracy in the Classroom Michelle Worgan, Spain
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec10/sart11.htm
An outsider s point of view
Friday, October 7, 2016
Voice Teacher
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Talks to watch before a job interview
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
On an interview for a tourist visa to the USA
!!! Visitor visa interview questions,
http://www.path2usa.com/visitor-visa-guide/visitor-visa-interview-questions
http://www.immihelp.com/visitor-visa/visitors-visa-interview-sample-questions-answers.html
http://www.immihelp.com/visitor-visa/visitor-visa-interview-guide.html
http://www.immihelp.com/experience/view-1-29-usavisitorvisa_b2visa.html
Speak Up 6 Fabulous Games to Get Your Students Speaking
Saturday, October 1, 2016
quistions in applying for an US tourist visa / student's brigade one - Google Search
Talks to watch before a job interview
A factor that always leaves you satisfied after giving some presentation (including a job interview) according to a Harvard professor
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
Sunday, September 25, 2016
!!! 7 reasons why most people find writing hard to do
! Students who don't want to write
10 Reasons Nonreaders Don't Read — And How to Change Their Minds
Luba Vangelova : The direction in which learning is going: personalized, self-directed, grounded in the real world, and blurring the lines between age groups, teachers/students, formal/informal, etc. It taps into people's instincts and desires for play, creativity and meaning
You do not need to teach reading
http://education.penelopetrunk.com/2012/04/16/you-dont-need-to-teach-reading/
“It is not normal to learn to read early, and it’s often a sign of hyperlexia, which is often paired with compromised social skills.
And it is certain that social skills are more important to a successful life than early reading is.
The teachers met separately with each parent and explained how dangerous hyperlexia is to a developing brain. A child’s social skills are developing at a rapid rate at age three, and if the brain starts focusing on words instead of social skills, the brain loses the chance to develop those social skills. The teachers told the parents to discourage early reading.
...
You get that intimate reading time for only a short span of your life with your kid. Why cut it short?
I learned from working in my family’s bookstore for ten years that as soon as kids can read themselves, they don’t want their parents to read to them. You never know when your kid will say no.“
Boy who did not want to learn to read - Children of Summerhill 1998
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Thursday, September 22, 2016
7 Powerful Writing Skills That Will Give Your ESL Students an Edge
6 Sure-fire Ways to Help Your ESL Students Improve Their Writing
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Common Sales Communication Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
https://troops.ai/blog/sales-communication-mistakes/ (written communication)
4 Ways To Improve Your Communication Skills for Sales,
(No author is mentioned)
http://thesalesblog.com/2010/03/01/4-ways-to-improve-your-communication-skills-for-sales/
In more detail:
https://tellwise.com/blog/the-top-10-sales-communication-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/
6 Tips to Make Reading Fun, Not Frustrating
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Sunday, September 11, 2016
ИНТЕНЗИВНО ДИСТАНЦИОННО ОБУЧЕНИЕ ПО МОНТЕСОРИ МЕТОД начало: 25.09.16 г. записване до: 15.09.16 г. Обучението е за възрастни, които желаят да работят по метода с деца от 0 до 6г. Няма специфични изисквания към кандидатите и всеки може да се запише. Обучението включва общо шест модула: 1. Философия на Метода Монтесори - продължителност 1 месец 2. Упражнения от практическият живот- продължителност 1 месец 3. Стимулиране на сетивата- продължителност 1 месец 4. Езикови познания- продължителност 1 месец 5. Математика- продължителност 1 месец 6. Въведение и класифициране в Биологията и Географията- продължителност 1 месец
Saturday, September 10, 2016
4 Ways To Improve Your Communication Skills for Sales
http://thesalesblog.com/2010/03/01/4-ways-to-improve-your-communication-skills-for-sales/
15 best jobs for people who aren't good at f communicating
Author: Andy Kiersz
http://www.businessinsider.com/15-best-jobs-for-bad-communicators-2014-5#
Monday, September 5, 2016
English Lessons and Exercises Conditionals - if Clauses - Inversion
Гергана Павлова и Пламен Петров, Intunity Coaches: Коучинг подходът повишава качеството на взимане на лидерски решения
Приключението Intunity Coaches започна…
Sunday, September 4, 2016
!!? Парчето принципа за правилно подреждане на въпросите: 20% стратегия и 80% мотивация за действие
Friday, September 2, 2016
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6 Tips to Design Interactive Virtual Classroom Training
Monday, August 29, 2016
Question tag
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Yora's TESOL 1st Part certificate
https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/specialization/certificate/RWYKKYSQ7BVA
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Saturday, August 6, 2016
The Science of Silence – Rebuild Your Brain With Less Noise and More Nature
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
Кога полезните храни стават отровни?
Кога полезните храни стават отровни?
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
5 tips for creating activity instructions in PowerPoint
Ето защо музиката на Моцарт е толкова лечебна
MoraModules Content (a model online business related to language teaching)
The Communicative Approach
http://moramodules.com/ALMMethods.htm#Communicative
"Characteristics of the Communicative Classroom
The classroom is devoted primarily to activities that foster acquisition of L2. Learning activities involving practice and drill are assigned as homework.
The instructor does not correct speech errors directly.
Students are allowed to respond in the target language, their native language, or a mixture of the two.
The focus of all learning and speaking activities is on the interchange of a message that the acquirer understands and wishes to transmit, i.e. meaningful communication.
The students receive comprehensible input in a low-anxiety environment and are personally involved in class activities. Comprehensible input has the following major components:
a. a context
b. gestures and other body language cues
c. a message to be comprehended
d. a knowledge of the meaning of key lexical items in the utterance"
MoraModules Content (a model online business related to language teaching)
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
The Communicative Approach
http://moramodules.com/ALMMethods.htm#Communicative
"Characteristics of the Communicative Classroom
The classroom is devoted primarily to activities that foster acquisition of L2. Learning activities involving practice and drill are assigned as homework.
The instructor does not correct speech errors directly.
Students are allowed to respond in the target language, their native language, or a mixture of the two.
The focus of all learning and speaking activities is on the interchange of a message that the acquirer understands and wishes to transmit, i.e. meaningful communication.
The students receive comprehensible input in a low-anxiety environment and are personally involved in class activities. Comprehensible input has the following major components:
a. a context
b. gestures and other body language cues
c. a message to be comprehended
d. a knowledge of the meaning of key lexical items in the utterance"
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
25 maps that explain the English language
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Saturday, July 2, 2016
5 tips for creating activity instructions in PowerPoint
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Ето защо музиката на Моцарт е толкова лечебна
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Teach Your Children Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants with this Creative Board Game
http://learningherbs.com/wildcraft/#wildcraft_intro
Friday, May 6, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
TEFL: Reading Approach
What Is the Basal Reading Approach? - education.seattlepi.com
? The "Reading Approach" and "The New Method System" (Michael West, The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Dec., 1937), pp. 220-222) - jstor.org
SQ3R Reading Method:
New English Language Teaching Methods | The Principled Eclecticism Approach
The Way Ahead
The respected author and American university professor, Douglas Brown, provides a list of the ‘ten commandments’ for effective language learning, applied to both ESL teachers and learners:
From his book Principles of Language Learning & Teaching (Pearson Longman, 2001)
For EFL Teachers For Language Learners Lower inhibitions Fear not! Encourage risk-taking Dive in Build self-confidence Believe in yourself Develop intrinsic motivation Seize the day Engage in cooperative learning Work with your team Use right-brain processes Get the BIG picture Promote ambiguity tolerance Cope with the chaos Practice intuition Follow your hunches Process error feedback Make mistakes work FOR you Set personal goals Set your own goals
These recommendations aim to promote learner autonomy and stress the importance of self-motivation.
!!! All main TEFL methods/approaches
Second and Foreign Language Teaching Methods - moramodules.com
Theoretical Orientations to L2 Methods & Approaches
There are four general orientations among modern second-language methods and approaches:
1. STRUCTURAL/LINGUISTIC: Based on beliefs about the structure of language and descriptive or contrastive linguistics. Involves isolation of grammatical and syntactic elements of L2 taught either deductively or inductively in a predetermined sequence. Often involves much meta-linguistic content or "learning about the language" in order to learn the language.
2. COGNITIVE: Based on theories of learning applied specifically to second language learning. Focus is on the learning strategies that are compatible with the learners own style. L2 content is selected according to concepts and techniques that facilitate generalizations about the language, memorization and "competence" leading to "performance".
3. AFFECTIVE/INTERPERSONAL: Focuses on the psychological and affective pre-dispositions of the learner that enhance or inhibit learning. Emphasizes interaction among and between teacher and students and the atmosphere of the learning situation as well as students' motivation for learning. Based on concepts adapted from counseling and social psychology.
4. FUNCTIONAL/COMMUNICATIVE: Based on theories of language acquisition, often referred to as the "natural" approach, and on the use of language for communication. Encompasses multiple aspects of the communicative act, with language structures selected according to their utility in achieving a communicative purpose. Instruction is concerned with the input students receive, comprehension of the "message" of language and student involvement at the students' level of competence.
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Multi-word verbs: Learner problems | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC
Multiword Verbs (+ exercise) < englishclub.com
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Types of Business Correspondence
http://www.slideshare.net/DainaAbdul/business-correspondence-26773998
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Business-Letter
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Language Comprehension Boosted by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation – Neuroscience News
Friday, April 8, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Sunday, April 3, 2016
"VideoScribe is pure magic. Create your own whiteboard-style animations with no design or technical know-how."
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
Networking teachers by MacMillan
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Top Speech-to-Text Dictation Apps For Android | TechSource
10 Of The Best Dictation Apps
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/mobility/mobile-apps/10-best-dictation-apps-162985