Meanwhile, last year, a grade school in Arizona received permission ‘to offer a fully online school experience for grades four through eight that gives students just two hours of academic instruction per day — taught entirely by artificial intelligence’ (Prada, 2024). The experiment may fail, ...
Alexa, can you sing in autotune? Similarly, if you have a Google Home speaker, there are also lots ofentertaining things you can ask, including: What language do you speak? Do you have an imagination? What is the meaning of life?
Coming up in May this year, there will be a mini-conference where Nicola Prentis will give a talk which looks like a first in ELT. It maps the history of the industry from the point of view of the women who shaped it. The event is called ‘Celebrating Women in ELT: Reflect, empower...
5. 3 tough spots:Identify three spots (minute:second, e.g. 02:45) that are difficult to understand. What’s so difficult? Performance (accent, speed, etc.)? Words (unfamiliar words)? Or non-explicit meaning (you know the words, but not the meaning)?
These understandings of the meaning systems of their professional identity provide some implications for the establishment of professional standards and desirable pedagogies, as well as the reform of the English curriculum. First, broader attributes of the teachers' qualities need to be reflected into ...
The evidence from research into instructed SLA gives massive support to the claim that concentrating on activities which help implicit knowledge (by developing the learners’ ability to make meaning in the L2, through exposure to comprehensible input, participation in discourse, and implicit or ...
What Marzano refers to as mental set could equally well be called mindful awareness, meaning that a more mindful teacher can expect a considerably less disruptive classroom, and by extension, his or her students can expect to do better overall. ...
“It is important to apply language strategies primarily because language is integral in the process of teaching and learning. It serves as the medium to transfer ideas, concepts, and meaning to students,”he suggests. Teacher G, another university lecturer from the Asian university, agrees with ...
and ‘zort’, which the children are required to sound out, has incensed advocates of a more meaning- and context-driven approach to developing first language literacy: “It’s just bonkers!” The very mention of phonics is guaranteed to elicit this kind of knee-jerk reaction in some quarte...
Being concerned with the use of English as a vehicular language, ELF focuses on the communication and accommodation strategies adopted by users who do not share a first language to negotiate meaning and reach intelligibility in a wide range of situations. Unlike English varieties, which are ...