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11 jun 20231 Min. de lectura
Happy summer!
Good afternoon to you all! The time has come to say goodbye after such an intense and interesting school year that we have spent...
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4 jun 20231 Min. de lectura
Why should we use literature in our class?
To end with why should we use literature in our English class, we are going to make a brief conclusion about what we have been learning...
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28 may 20231 Min. de lectura
Developing reading habits
Nowadays, educators have started to consider reading not only as a means of developing linguistic structures, but also as a way to...
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21 may 20232 Min. de lectura
Criteria for selecting storybooks
We can find many simplified storybooks which have been graded with children learning English in mind. Most authors, however, consider...
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14 may 20232 Min. de lectura
Strategies to exploit literature in the English class
Once we have provided a historical background of the English literature and we have examine the different types of texts, we will analyse...
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7 may 20231 Min. de lectura
Types of texts
There is a wide range of storybooks: from traditional fairy tales to fantasy stories, and from picture stories with no text to stories...
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23 abr 20231 Min. de lectura
Literature after the 19th century
Once we have expained the literature before the 19th century, is time to continue learning about the more recent centuries of the same....
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16 abr 20232 Min. de lectura
Literature before the 19th century
The position of literature in the English as a Second Language class has changed during the decades. At the beginning of the 20th...
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20 mar 20231 Min. de lectura
Literature in the english class
Although forgotten for some time, literature has nowadays the importance it deserves within English as a Second Language teaching....
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13 mar 20231 Min. de lectura
Some practical considerations
After having analysed the importance of teaching culture in the foreign language classroom, we will finally provide some practical ideas....
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6 mar 20231 Min. de lectura
Developing cultural awareness
We will now discuss how we can help students to develop cultural awareness in the foreign language class. It is clear that the...
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27 feb 20232 Min. de lectura
Teaching language and culture
To begin with, language is a social institution, both shaping and shaped by society at large. Duranti (1997) established that to be part...
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20 feb 20231 Min. de lectura
The history of culture teaching
We will start by presenting the role of cultural learning in the history of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT). Two main perspectives have...
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13 feb 20232 Min. de lectura
The language barrier
We will start by analysing international communication and the problem of the language barrier. There are several ways of getting around...
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6 feb 20231 Min. de lectura
What about teaching a foreign language?
Once we have spoken about the different methods that surround language teaching and we have clarified the concept of language and its...
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30 ene 20232 Min. de lectura
Communication theory
Finally, we are going to discuss the elements that interact in any communicative situation. Communication, the exchange of meaning...
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23 ene 20231 Min. de lectura
Differences between writing and speech
Once the characteristics of both speech and writing have been developed, we will continue by analysing the differences between writing...
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16 ene 20231 Min. de lectura
Spoken and written language
We will now move to explain the nature of spoken and written language. Speech, or spoken language is the most obvious aspect and the...
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19 dic 20221 Min. de lectura
Happy holidays!
Good afternoon to you all! The time has come to say goodbye after such an intense and interesting four-month period that we have spent...
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12 dic 20221 Min. de lectura
Two main modes of language
Now we will concentrate on the two main modes of language: spoken and written language. For the same, we will start by analysing their...
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