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| Adrian Underhill -
interview |
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I was interviewed
about the British Council about my career, opinions on ELT in
general, and specifically about pronunciation. You can find the
pronunciation discussion from 18 minutes onwards.
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Happy Halloween from
the team at LearnEnglish Kids! There are lots of activities for
Halloween on our site and you will find most of the content on our
sister site LearnEnglish Kids. On this page
you will find information about new content as well as tips and
ideas for using and extending the activities in the
classroom.
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| Comparative plips
and plops |
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I like to use this
activity to promote the use of the comparative form. It is a fun
guessing game that encourages creativity. To prepare think of
examples for the demonstration, and print/copy the student
worksheets.
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One of the main
dilemmas for teachers giving conversation groups is error
correction. It's always tricky to know when and if to correct
students and how to go about it. The danger of over-correcting is
that students will lose motivation and you may even destroy the
flow of the class or the activity by butting in and correcting
every single mistake. The other extreme is to let the conversation
flow and not to correct any mistakes.
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| The importance of
L2 Vocabulary |
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Recently, many studies
on the acquisition of second/foriegn language vocabulary state
that foreign language learners prove to have different degrees of
knowledge of second language lexicon. These differences affect
their lexical competence which constitutes a central part of the
communicative competence. Psycholinguists and applied linguists
emphasized the role of L2 vocabulary in every stage of language
learning and teaching.
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