Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

Word for Word

Article February 21st, 2010

Panayotis used to be one of my Proficiency students. When I took over his class, he had already taken the examination twice… and failed both times. There were few words for which Panayotis could not provide synonyms, antonyms, but translation was his forte! Always keen to share his treasure trove, as he could so easily [...]

What kind of teacher are you? Are you in your students’ “Hall of Fame”?

Article, Research February 14th, 2010

The interest in the qualities of good teachers is not new. This post includes some thoughts on a study I conducted a few years ago with two groups of different learners (50 adults and 60 young learners between 11-13).  The adults who took part in this interim study were contacted by me directly. The young [...]

Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds

Article, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series February 11th, 2010

In this post, I am going to look at Wordle, Wordsift , Word it out and Word Mosaic and try to briefly compare them as I think they all have great potential for a variety of learning activities. This post was inspired by a great discussion in the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run [...]

Using word clouds in class – a lesson plan

Lesson Plan, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series February 10th, 2010

This lesson plan was produced during  the SEETA course on EasyWeb 2.0 tools run by Nik Peachey – many more lessons and lesson ideas can be found there but here is mine: The text was to be chosen randomly (in case you were wondering why I chose this particular one). Text source: A news item from [...]