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P is for Poverty of the stimulus | An A-Z of ELT
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. P is for Poverty of the stimulus. The case for humans being innately and uniquely endowed with a ‘language instinct’ rests largely on the ‘poverty of the stimulus’ argument, or what is sometimes called ‘Plato’s problem’:. How do we know so much when the evidence available to us is so meagre? As Harris (1993: 57-8) elaborates:. Is this really true? Is the stimulus really so impoverished? 1977, cited in Sampson 2005). In one study ‘only one utterance out of ...Chomsky...
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An A-Z of ELT | Scott Thornbury's blog
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. A is for Accommodation. A is for Accuracy. A is for Affordance. A is for Age (of onset). A is for Aims. A is for Approach. A is for Articles (1). A is for Articles (2). A is for Aspect. A is for Aspect (2). A is for Attention. A is for Authenticity. A is for Automaticity. A is for Autonomy. B is for Bad language learner. B is for Backshift. B is for Blogging. B is for Body. C is for CLT. C is for Communicative. C is for Conditional (the Third). C is for Construction.
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G is for Grammar(s) | An A-Z of ELT
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. G is for Grammar(s). There is more than one way to skin a cat. And more than one way to describe a language. Hence, more than one type of grammar. It all depends on your point of view. Take this sentence, for example:. THIS DOOR IS ALARMED. Structuralist grammars foreground the way that the basic structure of this sentence (NP verb. Provides the template for any number of similar sentences, such as. This window is closed. Your days are numbered,. Your number is up.
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C is for Communicative | An A-Z of ELT
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. C is for Communicative. A communicative activity- Teaching Practice at the New School this summer. Has become so elastic as to embrace any methodology that foregrounds speaking in pairs or small groups. But, strictly speaking,. Means more than simply. An A-Z of ELT. I list the features of a communicative activity as being the following:. To achieve this purpose, speakers need to interact, and there is as much need to listen as to speak;. Participants can use any com...
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The things people say… – the hands up project
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The hands up project. The hands up project. Stories from the HUP. The things people say…. Haneen Besseiso, facilitator, The Tamer institute for community Education. Education Programme Manager, Relief International. Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan. The Hands Up Project affects me and my class in many ways. As a teacher, it gives me the chance to. Sahar Salha, teacher at Beit Hanoun elem co-ed “A” UNRWA school, Gaza. Rola Mattar, facilitator, The Tamer institute for community Education. In my plenary address.
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P is for Push | An A-Z of ELT
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. P is for Push. Merrill Swain (left) along with other plenary speakers at last year's JALT Conference. The term ‘push’ is borrowed from a comment that Merrill Swain made as long ago as 1985, in proposing what became known (in contradistinction to Krashen’s Input Hypothesis. Swain, on the other hand, argued that, while input is necessary, it is insufficient. Instead (or as well), the learner needs to. 1 of comprehensible input . An A-Z –. 8220;being pushed to produce ...
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What I Learned From IATEFL 2014... - TheTeacherJames
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What I Learned From IATEFL 2014. Tuesday, 15 April 2014. What I Learned From IATEFL 2014. Posted by James Taylor. At the beginning of April, I attended the 48th IATEFL conference in Harrogate in the north of England. As I did last year, I was there as a representative of BELTA but this year had the added excitement of knowing I would be speaking at the Pecha Kucha night on Friday, my first ever presentation at IATEFL. So what did I learn while I was there? Here's my quick guide. That global issues are no...
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R is for Rapport | An A-Z of ELT
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An A-Z of ELT. Scott Thornbury's blog. R is for Rapport. As part of my job on the New School MA TESOL program. I’ve been collating evaluations of the last semester’s online courses. What really stands out are the extremely positive ratings of the teaching faculty: not surprising perhaps, given their collective expertise, but when you consider that the students never actually. Their instructors, such positive evaluations are quite remarkable. Here’s a sample:. What these teachers seem to have achieved ...
