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• EAL response to literature displays

  By Pete on November 5, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  I recently mentioned how our learners created a final display board in response to a unit on poetry. Here’s a screenshot of what our common assessment checklist looked like for the final product: I could scrutinize here – there’s room… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #19: vague briefs

  By Pete on October 31, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Host (Des): Welcome back to ELT Publishing Family Fortunes. Before the break, we asked each publishing team to name ‘Something that publishers are deliberately vague about in project briefs’.  Donald gained control of the board for Big Four ELT with… Read More ›

• ChatGPT experiments: New unit intros (IGCSE ESL)

  By Pete on October 29, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Luiz Octávio Barros was asking about scripts we feed ChatGPT the other day. I mentioned this: Which is a very boring example of an (over the word count) type IGCSE ESL text I generate for correction practice. I’m not *massively*… Read More ›

• Conventional, common-sense vocabulary and grammar instruction (Boers)

  By Pete on October 18, 2024 • ( 2 )

  

  Boers (2021) outlines six explicit vocabulary and grammar teaching practices that are backed up by research.  He does so almost apologetically, noting that most of the practices align with more traditional/conventional methods, and that they also seem ‘commonsensical’. I lack… Read More ›

• One of our research areas is missing

  By Pete on October 10, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve been flicking through Jamie Clark’s Teaching One-Pagers recently, and overall I’m a big fan. Evidence-informed summaries of research and practice – informative, accessible, perfect for the staffroom coffee table.  As Oliver Caviglioli points out in the foreword, One-Pagers is… Read More ›

• Pre-teaching academic vocabulary

  By Pete on September 29, 2024 • ( 4 )

  

  This term we’re trialing an approach to pre-teaching academic vocabulary. Here’s the basic process: Step 1: Subject teachers identify 10-12 items of key vocab for an upcoming topic in either science, humanities, or maths. This should happen a couple of… Read More ›

• Using the Bell Assessment Framework in hybrid EAL provision

  By Pete on September 17, 2024 • ( 4 )

  

  I’ve written a few things on the Bell Assessment Framework this past year. Here were my initial reflections on implementing the framework, and some musings on how it could be improved. In this post, I share some thoughts on using… Read More ›

• Financial advice in TEFL

  By Pete on September 5, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  The first time I ‘planned for the future’ was in 2015. I’d just joined the British Council that August. The move felt like my commitment to an ELT career, and with it came thinking about family, finances, and ‘you know,… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #18: The Test Specification

  By Pete on August 14, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  This is completely imaginary blah blah blah. Hi Pete, Thanks for agreeing to write the official practice exams for the Test Of English Within Academic, Research, and Technical Settings (TOEWARTS), 2025 specification. As you know, endorsed exam practice resources like… Read More ›

• EAL Digest, August 2024

  By Pete on August 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve had some help from Adri Szlapak with this update! We’ve been adding interesting EAL stuff to a doc throughout the month. Here it all is! New releases Pedagogies for Equitable Access was released at the end of July. For… Read More ›

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