Academic Writing matters

Cameron, L. (2001).  Teaching languages to young learners . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Outline Purpose: To summarize the most important points to bear in mind while planning units of work for young learners. Thesis statement: When planning a unit of work, EFL teachers should have a student-centered approach towards learning, accompanied by a communicative perspective on language, to make their teaching more effective. Audience: EFL teachers I. Preface II. Presentation of learning and language acquisition theories       A. Piaget's active learner       B. Vygotsky's zone of proximal development       C. Bruner's scaffold       D. Language acquisition theories III. Task-based learning IV. Meaning in language learning  V. Learning words      A. Connected networks      B. Recycling of words VI. Learning grammar VII. Learning literacy skills...

Fifteen first form students are sitting in front of the board. It is a language class in which the teacher wants to work on “The neighbourhood” and the different shops that can be found there. During the first part of the lesson, Silvia, the teacher, brings different flashcards to activate the vocabulary and she encourages students to describe the shops. However, the children do not seem to be familiar with the vocabulary. Some of her students start drawing on the table, others start talking and standing up. The teacher asks for silence repeatedly. She invites the students who usually participate actively to do so, and they can give some answers. After describing all the pictures, she invites the children to predict which shops are going to appear in the video she is going to show them. They provide some of the vocabulary items they described in the previous activity but none of those words are mentioned in the video. The teacher then asks the students to draw their own neighbourhood. ...

Let me now share a bit more about my professional background. I attended secondary school in an institution in Morón. There I specialized in Economy and Management. As you can clearly see that did not affect my future course of studies, but it did, however, have positive consequences later on. Upon graduation, I chose Joaquin V. Gonzalez and luckily, it also chose me! The course was not easy, but I eventually finished both its degrees, Primary and Secondary level Teacher of English. One of the most meaningful reasons why studying took so long, was because I worked a lot. I started in 2006 teaching at a language school, and soon after things got out of hand: schools and in-company lessons also took part in the picture. I even diverted from teaching itself and delved into examinations such as CLE, IELTS and Cambridge. I have had many jobs at the same time and crazy timetables, but now I decided to calm down and I work full time at a school and eventually work for exams. What I love about...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog! This is Cecilia Capretti, from Buenos Aires. I am an English teacher at Primary school, who would like to broaden her horizons in the field of Education. In order to do so, I know I will have to read and write and re-read and re-write a couple of times. I hope you join me on this never-ending life-long pleasure trip with no specific destination we like to call "learning." Read you around, Ceci.