Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence

Blog post, Conference Presentation Report, ELT Methodology December 22, 2011

This post was originally written in 2009 on this blog which was very very new and had very few readers. I have updated it with two videos of a Pecha Kucha which was inspired by it and you will find them at the end of the post. Both post & original talk and PK’s are [...]

Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective

Blog post, ELT Methodology, Language Analysis December 11, 2011

Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA,  express great interest in this way of studying connected text or talk, but just as many find it  hard to incorporate it into their teaching; apart from an occasional lesson focusing [...]

My Nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2011 – #eddies11

Blog post December 2, 2011

I still remember how much I enjoyed being nominated for some of the awards as a new blogger and tweeter in 2009 and how much this encouraged me to keep blogging and to try to keep getting better. Some people may still think these nominations have no value – well, they do; it’s our colleagues [...]