Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

Can you teach a Dogme Lesson on your Cambridge DELTA?

Blog post, ELT Methodology April 8, 2011

This post is written in response and as part of a twitter conversation with Martin Sketchley – @ELTexperiences on Twitter. His blog post on his own Dogme observed lesson can be found at the end of this post. In the days before writing his experimental asignment for the DELTA course, Jonathan – my trainee of [...]

#ELTchat – 99,052 Tweets and counting!

Blog post, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series January 29, 2011

  This is not the image a heartbeat. It’s the burst of energy of hundreds of tweets which are sent by the many ELT professionals participating in an online discussion called #ELTchat every Wednesday at two different times, at 12:00 p.m. GTM and  at 21:00 p.m. GMT. What is #ELTchat? Every Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. [...]

Blog Challenge: Tradition Revisited & Revamped

Blog post, ELT Methodology November 17, 2010

Inspired by the #ELTchat of November 10, 1020, here is a blog challenge to collect and learn how you use traditional practices in your modern innovative class The topic we discussed was: When you think of traditional ELT approaches, are they all totally bad? What are good things you can draw from each of them? [...]

One Year of Blogging

Blog post August 28, 2010

I have great reason to celebrate: one year of blogging! Well, one year and something…. Although this post is rather late, mainly due to a really heavy teaching schedule in July and August, I have been thinking about it and writing bits and bytes whenever I had a few minutes. On the 1st of July [...]

My 2010 Birthday Memories – Wallwishers are great!

Blog post, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series June 23, 2010

I loved my birthday wishes this year! Thanks to Shelly Terrell who was the instigator, my PLN gave me this wonderful memory of this special birthday. I was so thrilled at your words, music, images and thoughts that I wanted to save them all here and come back and look at them all again and [...]