There are six myths or half-truths that are related to the teaching of listening during the process of language learning. They are false rituals which need to be analysed and put into question. Let’s consider them. 1. Listening can’t be taught: In fact, there are many things teachers...
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12/06/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Listening Activities
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Perhaps your previous school year went well and your teaching was amazing. Maybe you think it wasn’t and it went poorly. Perhaps, you can describe your previous school year and evaluate your teaching with different adjectives. Maybe you were not conscious of your performance. So here are some...
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09/06/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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You may have been studying English for many years but still, feel that English is stuck in your mouth and you can’t express yourself freely to people. When it comes to talking, you may realize that your English is frozen and you don’t remember any words. You may...
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21/05/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Conversations, Uncategorized
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It is your right after a lot of effort you did as a teacher to relax during summer vacation but it is also a chance to reflect on the previous year, prepare yourself for the coming year and develop your teaching skills. Here are the best seven things...
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20/05/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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A good language test should have a positive effect on learning and teaching. Such a test should aim at specifying areas of difficulties. The whole class or individual students may experience so that additional practice and corrective exercises should be given. A good language test should also measure...
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29/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Assessment procedures should be used to achieve three main purposes: Providing end-of-term grading or certification (summative evaluation) Providing information on the learner’s strengths and weaknesses (formative evaluation) Helping the teacher and/or learner to plan further work (integrative evaluation) When assessing learning outcomes, the teacher should be concerned with...
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27/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Most students struggle to communicate effectively in some social situations because most teachers focus overly on grammar and often neglect teaching students functional language. The heart of functional language is understanding the implied social meaning of certain expressions. We use language mainly to perform some kind of communicative...
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13/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Language Functions
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Most students who have learned English as a foreign language often use only three tenses: present, past and future. They rarely use the present perfect tense as it is one the tenses that is soon forgotten or replaced easily with simple past tense. Students don’t realize the importance of...
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07/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Grammar
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03/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Premium Content, Teach Vocabulary
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As a teacher of English, you need to test your students’ English periodically to know to what extent they learned the language. Learning English should include mainly learning vocabulary and grammar. In addition, you should test their reading comprehension and writing skills. If you want your test to...
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01/03/2018 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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