Karenne Sylvester's Page

Here's a list of some of the great articles recently published by various Bloggers in ELT: some I wrote, most I read!

TEACHING ENGLISH : ISSUES AND TOPICS
**What do Mirror Neurons have to do with Language Learning or Teaching? Anything?
Kalinago English

**Should L1 be banned from the classroom?
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Hi ya,

This is a call-out for help on a piece I would like to do soon on my blog about women in the field of English language teaching, applied linguistics or anything related to TESOL, TEFL, TESL...

Could you please tell me who influenced your teaching and/or who inspired you to become a better English language teacher?

HOWEVER, there is a small catch - I don't want just names ;-).

I want details!

i.e. not, = Penny Ur

but instead as much as you can find that will help me write the piece!… Continue

• Carl Dowse did a very thorough review of a workshop with Barry Tomalin, complete with extensive video (well worth watching) on globablisation, communication and the workplace.
  

• Gavin Dudeney's musings sparked off

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Have you heard of Word Clouds?

Wordle is a great site that allows you to create word clouds out of a text. You can use this to pre-teach vocabulary, do a predictive exercise on an article or any other type of reading you're about to do, make a vocabulary review exercise based on a lexis presented in a textbook and you can even make a poster for your classroom of discussion starters!

Read more on how to use it… Continue

If you're teaching banking students or investor types and would like to do a challenging lesson with them providing a full range of vocabulary suitable for discussions about the financial crisis, I've posted up some tips and link to a free worksheet here: http://kalinago.blogspot.com