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.
Repetition in ELT
TeachersTeacher CafeLanguageEducationAuthor Scott Thornbury talking about the use of Repetition in English language teaching.
The benefits of Extensive Reading
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducation...Professor Richard Day, Chair and Co-founder of the Extensive Reading Foundation, explains the benefits to language learners of extensive reading.
Louis Rogers - Academic Vocabulary
TeachersTeacher CafeLanguageEducation...The four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking have dominated the EAP classroom for many years; however in the last decade academic word lists has given much greater prominence to vocabulary teaching. This talk will give an overview of some of the main studies into creating Academic Word Lists and look at the impact of vocabulary knowledge of skills such as reading.
Learn English Apps
TeachersTeacher CafeTechnologyEducation...Check out these excellent apps for your mobile device of choice!
Steven Pinker on Language Pragmatics
TeachersTeacher CafeLanguageEducationSteven Pinker talks about Language Pragmatics and how language is learned through context.