Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

Language Teaching, Teacher Education & New Technologies

Words from Context: of Logic & Connections

Blog post June 15, 2010

In his great taxonomy of language skills which appears in his well known book “Communicative Syllabus Design“, John Munby mentions “developing sensitivity to context clues”,  as one of the microskills of  reading. kapitzvirt In this post, I would like to share an insight gleaned from an EST (English for Science & Techonology) series of books [...]

Tech Tools & Pedagogy II – Word Clouds

Article, Tech Tools & Pedagogy Series February 11, 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 10, 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 [...]