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Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions

Posted on October 4, 2020 by bednarj2 / 0 Comment

The “Question Formulation Technique” is being used from kindergarten all the way through to higher education across all disciplines.  What is it?  And, how does...

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Scaffolding?

Posted on August 1, 2020 by bednarj2 / 0 Comment

I’ve been told that Scaffolding for Scaffolders is an odd name for a language teaching blog site.  And to any of you in the construction industry who may have b...

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Vocabulary Acquisition: Lexical Approach

Posted on July 30, 2020 by bednarj2 / 0 Comment

In 1993 Michael Lewis shook the foundations of the ELT industry with the release of The Lexical Approach.  In this seminal work, he suggested that practitioners...

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Considering the pace of a lesson

Posted on July 30, 2020 by bednarj2 / 0 Comment

For students to learn, they have to be paying attention.  When a student or group of students are ‘bored’ in class, minds wandering, looking out the...

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Demand High ELT

Posted on July 29, 2020 by bednarj2 / 0 Comment

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn ...

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