Also on July 15 and 16, the Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, will hold the 66th Conference for Teachers of English. The event will take place at IBEU Copacabana, and will also host important ELT professionals, like Jeremy Harmer and Steve Knowles, among other guest speakers.
Click here to register.
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ABCI 2010, the 9th Conference of the Associação Brasileira de Culturas Inglesas, will be held at Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro from July 15 through 17. The event is expected with much anticipation, and renowned ELT professionals, such as David Crystal and Herbert Puchta, are among the keynote speakers.
Important note: the Registration period is now extended until July 8. Follow the link for further info.
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Coming soon to Use English:
Keep watching for those new items over the next weeks!
When I started studying English, I remember being totally hypnotized by the animated pictures that were part of our lessons, back in the 70’s, during the so-called boom of audiovisual methodologies. In the 80’s, when I actually became a classroom teacher, I felt that I was beginning to really belong to this technological world.
However, it was not until I bought my first computer, at the end of the 90’s, that I took a deeper breath and delved into the digital era. Since then, incredibly enough, so many things have changed. From VHS tapes to BDs, from audio tapes to CDs, from overhead projectors to interactive whiteboards, in a computer-assisted English classroom which demands more technical and technological knowledge from teachers than ever before.
Being an EFL teacher has fortunately made it possible for me to be in touch with all that high-end equipment, and the advances do not seem to show any sign of fading. Much on the contrary, the more I use technology, the more I start to realize that I know very little, and this somehow pushes me forward, there is still a great deal of learning to take place.
The interactive whiteboard, or IWB, is a novelty that presents itself both as a way of making my English lessons more dynamic and interactive, and at the same time as a challenge for the teacher, who now has to cope with the unpredictability of the classroom when it comes to students’ reactions, equipment failure, the amazingly swift changes in technology. But most of all, we teachers need to see technology not as a panacea, a “cure-all” for our teaching and learning problems, but as a wonderful tool to try and turn our lessons into more interesting, learning-packed, and engaging social encounters for all the participants involved.
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Jack Richards, the renowned applied linguist from New Zealand, and author of Approaches And Methods In Language Teaching (with Theodore S. Rodgers), was in Rio for Cambridge Day 2009, at the Windsor Guanabara Palace Hotel on July 15, 2009. He gave a very insightful and good-humored presentation on two important issues: common problems learners face when using spoken English, and what characterizes good teaching and strategies for professional development. His presentations will soon be made available from the Cambridge University Press Brazil official website:
Cambridge University Press Brazil
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My first attempt at a blog is not this one! I’ve had two others, the first of which I can’t remember. It must have been really bad! Of the second, which had more or less the same purposes as Use English, I’ve kept the logo. Check it out:
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Welcome to Use English. I hope you find this blog interesting and useful. It’s for English language students who would like to find information and clear up questions about vocabulary, grammar, skills, and so on. It’s also for EFL teachers who would like to share ideas, insights, good practices, and discuss issues related to ELT. Use English is in constant construction, so new things will always be popping up, and I hope to be able to update it as often as possible, say every week or two. So keep coming for more, and success in your studies! For teachers, my best wishes for a successful career!
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