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Language Education

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Language Education discusses issues related to English as the new lingua franca or global language. Topics such as language and ideology, teaching methodologies and humor in class are presented from a thought-provoking perspective.

• Added on: Aug 8th, 2009
• Country: Brazil
• Language: English

• Author: Antonio Trevisan Teixeira
• Listed in: Alternative Adult Education
• Tags: education teaching english language esl efl

Recent Posts

• Preventing real communication in class

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 22:08 in esl, efl, elt, social interaction, participation, error correction, error treatment, teacher-student interaction, sociocultural approach, classroom discourse

  Patiently correction leaves us all alone(Tranquilize, by The Killers and Lou Reed)Teacher-student interaction is an essential element of classroom discourse and one of the aspects that influences students the most concerning their attitude to schooli...

• Global English and the CLT - part 2

  Posted on Saturday July 25th, 2009 at 14:52 in tefl, elt, tesl, methodology, ideology, clt, global english, lingua franca, rajagopalan, pedagogical bias, larsen_freeman, classroom research

  This post is the second and final part of a reflection about the limitations of the Communicative Language Teaching concerning the present reality where English has become the new lingua franca. The fist part is here.As CLT misses the point about pou...

• Global English and the CLT

  Posted on Sunday July 19th, 2009 at 20:33 in tefl, elt, tesl, methodology, brown, approach, clt, global english, lingua franca, larsen_freeman, canagarajah

  I am posting the first of a series of reflections that try to assess the Communicative Language Teaching approach in face of English as the new lingua franca.From a historical perspective, the CLT was a reaction against the previous focus on drilling...

• "Multiligual speakers of English"

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 19:34 in tefl, elt, teachers, tesl, english learning, non-native, canagarajah, multiligualism

  Below is an interesting food for thought on (and for) non-native teachers. Suresh Canagarajah questions the dichotomy native versus non-native and says that teachers that are "multilingual speakers" must "move from the periphery of the profession to ...

• Humor in class

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 16:49 in humor, Brazil, Portuguese, translation, tefl, efl, elt, social interaction, tesl, playfulness, latin roots, community of learners

  Humor is a natural part of human interaction in many environments. As teachers and learners of English, most of us are used to experiencing some moments of joking and laughing in our classrooms. But what is the role of humor in the language class? Do...

• Classroom research

  Posted on Sunday June 21st, 2009 at 20:56 in education, teachers, classroom research

  I have just been introduced to the idea of classroom research in my postgraduate course. I am excited about the possibilities it can bring and my shifting from a "passive" role in the field of language teaching to one of finding and sharing knowledge...

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