Teaching vocabulary is far more than just teaching isolated words. Our students may have different ways of acquiring vocabulary and it's our duty to train them in new strategies for doing it. Teaching vocabulary is about making connections and bui... read more
The Teacher I am
How many times have you wondered about the best ways of teaching vocabulary?"I have to introduce these new words before dealing with this reading activity! How shall I do it?"Well, in a desperate way of looking for some answers, or at least, for a... read more
You Teach What You Are
It is a hard job to find interesting activities to introduce vocabulary items in the language classroom. Certainly, the teacher's job is to select appropriate material in order to carry out with it. Books in general suggests a number of technique... read more
ovamethods22007
As we turn into the discussion of how to help our students acquire lexis, today I'd like to invite you to look into three online (free) dictionaries which I believe are rather different from what you might be familiar with: The Internet Picture Di... read more
Teaching EFL (to teens and adults)
One useful way of finding other ways of teaching is by observing other teachers in action. Here is a list of what things I think we should mention to / ask of a teacher whose lesson we're going to observe. Following is a list of the reasons for ea... read more
Ways of Teaching