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Creating a Positive Mindset
Maurice Elias, a professor of psychology, posted some helpful tips for activities to kick off the semester at Helping students start the year with a positive mindset. Would you try any of these in your language classes?
Tips for Mindful Conversation
Dawa Tarchin Phillips, a research specialist at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at University of California, writes about The Art of Conversation. While everyone can participate in a conversation, practising being “mindful” – or conversing with increased intention and attention – can enhance our quality of communication and relationships, which are goals of … Continue reading
Trying Harder Can Make Learning Language More Difficult for Adults
In Kelly Dickerson’s report Why Adults Struggle to Pick up New Languages, an experiment with adults shows that trying harder can actually make it more difficult to learn a language. Adults who were distracted with colouring actually picked up more of the functional grammar than those told to study for a test. How might this … Continue reading
8 Tips for Transforming School Culture
Montie Koehn, an educator in Oklahoma public schools, writes about Transforming school culture through mutual respect. Listing eight basic principles to affirm, Koehn claims that these simple ways of showing respect can create a more sustaining and healthy educational environment. How many of these tips do you see in your place of work?
Storytelling and Language Learning
Matthew James Friday’s article on Why Storytelling in the Classroom Matters highlights storytelling with children, emphasising the role of stories in language learning. Although the types of stories may be different, this holds true for adult education as well.
3 Approaches to Curriculum: Problem, Project, or Inquiry
Problem-based, project-based, and inquiry-based approaches to curriculum are all conducive to a peace education lens and can promote collaborative and constructivist learning. This article summarises the similarities and differences among the three approaches. While language curriculum has been slow in adopting any of these, all can contribute greatly to the language classroom. Please feel free … Continue reading
Humility as a Language Learning Tool
What role does humility play in learning? This article highlights the importance of starting with humility both as learner and educator in classroom. Particularly with language education, teachers are seen as the “experts” and it becomes difficult not to live into that perception. Perhaps some of the writer’s suggestions could be helpful in starting with … Continue reading
Peace and Justice Digital Resources at Wayne State University
This collection of resource lists for adults and youth is hosted by the Citizens for Peace: Peace and Justice Digital Resource Center at Wayne State University. Continue reading
Three Versions of Bloom’s Taxonomy
This graphic shows the original, the revised taxonomy and a digital taxonomy adapted for education today. Continue reading
New release of International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching
Christian English Language Educators Association (CELEA) in cooperation with the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Biola University, has just released the first volume of the International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching Continue reading
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