Z is the 1st letter of their alphabet
The comment above from a dad about his daughter speaks volumes. For two years, I have been holding on to this story from The New… Read More »Z is the 1st letter of their alphabet
The comment above from a dad about his daughter speaks volumes. For two years, I have been holding on to this story from The New… Read More »Z is the 1st letter of their alphabet
Either today or tomorrow, all of you will be moving out of residence and most likely travelling home to your countries for the summer. I’m… Read More »Dear Section 7
For some time, I’ve been increasingly feeling like we suffer from the warm, fuzzy, everything-is-wonderful syndrome. We pat each other on the back when it’s deserved, but also when it’s not, and though this accomplishes what it sets out to–we feel good about ourselves–it also breeds mediocrity. This spills over into our classroom philosophies as well. Are we really helping our students achieve their potential with language or are we unintentionally filling in the gaps and overlooking errors they make because comprehensibility alone is the goal? I subscribe to Underhill and Scrivener’s Demand High ELT, which looks at “ways of getting much greater depth of tangible engagement and learning” and in a recent conversation with my colleague, Katherine Anderson, she reminded me of a great activity that pushes students to be better.