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The four poems in this BritLit collection are all by Tony Mitton, and the materials are designed to be used with 9 - 11 year olds. Each kit includes the text and audio of the poem as well as learning activities, teacher's notes and visual support. The four poems are: Robin Hood Rap, I Wanna Be A Star, Key, and Arabian Nights.
| Teaching teens
'Creativity in the language classroom' is the first of four articles looking at theories and practice for introducing creativity into the language classroom. This article addresses the key questions: What is creativity? Why is creativity important? Am I ever creative? Are my students creative in my lessons? Read the articleThe second article in the series focuses on the four Features of Creativity
| Teaching adults
Memorising language chunks through repetition is an effective way of scaffolding learners' language use and is also at the heart of how people have always told stories. A feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or 'language chunks'. In this article David Heathfield describes a procedure for using storytelling with all ages to support English language students' learning of a range of grammatical structures.
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| | | | Development
Anna Young talks about her classroom research using ten minute writing activities to engage learners. Her approach includes involving learners in choosing the topics, agreeing success criteria and individual feedback. Learners responded really well to this approach.
| Events
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open." (Günther Grass) Teaching is never neutral. Through our methods, classroom persona, and the materials we use, teachers advocate certain values. These values depend on one's beliefs - one's conception of education and the teacher's role. In his plenary talk, 'ELT and social justice: opportunities in a time of chaos', JJ Wilson looks at the arguments for including social justice issues in ELT classrooms.
| Magazine
In this blog post by Jvl Narasimha Rao describes how a diary entry can be used to get children to dramatise and write dialogues. By providing a context familiar to the learners and appropriate feedback, he shows how children can be encouraged to write creatively. Read his latest blog post 'How to Encourage Children to Write Discourse and give Feedback'.
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