Writing Your Bilingual Journey
TeachersEducationLanguageTeacher Cafe...Fostering a bilingual identity can be motivating and empowering for students. Hese is a short video to help the think through the process.
How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second.
The Power of Stories to Build a Kinder World
TeachersLanguageReadingTeacher Cafe...If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Atticus Finch, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962)
Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?
AdultsEducationHumanPsychology...Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
How to learn any language in six months
AdultsCultureEducationPsychology...Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams.
TED Talk: The joy of lexicography
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducation...Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation. An oldie but a goodie from TED.
4 Subtle Changes to English - Have you noticed?
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationLanguageFrom the online counterpart to magazine Mental Floss comes an article about four subtle linguistic trends in the English language that have emerged over the past 50 years or so.
Exploiting Infographics for ELT
TeachersCreativityTeacher CafeEducation...In his blog Nik's Quickshout, Nik Peachy informs us of different ways to use these visually arresting and vocabulary rich resources in the ELT classroom. He also gives tips about finding and selecting the best infographics for students and designing appropriate tasks to accompany them. Infographics easily lend themselves to a vocabulary, writing or even a grammar lesson and are perfect for visual learners.
Vicki Hollett and ELF
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationLanguageAndi White from the BESIG online team interviews Vicki Hollett about ELF and BELF.
The Lexical Approach - Leslie Hendra's Secrets
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationLanguageLeslie Hendra reveals her secret teaching tip and the importance of the lexical approach to teaching English. Recorded at IATEFL 2012 in Glasgow.
Leslie is one of the co-authors of "English Unlimited" (Cambridge University Press)