Blog criado porBruno Coriolano de Almeida Costa, professor de Língua Inglesa desde 2002. Esse espaço surgiu em 2007 com o objetivo de unir alguns estudiosos e professores desse idioma. Abordamos, de forma rápida e simples, vários aspectos da Língua Inglesa e suas culturas. Agradeço a sua visita.
"Se tivesse perguntado ao cliente o que ele queria, ele teria dito: 'Um cavalo mais rápido!"
Sabe aquelas músicas que marcam nossas vidas? Pois bem. Não sou diferente de ninguém e tenho as minhas também. Existe uma canção de uma banda inglesa chamada OASIS que me traz diversas recordações da minha adolescência.
Quando ouvi essa música pela primeira vez, fiquei louco para aprender a tocar igual a eles. Na verdade, quando ouvi essa música pela primeira vez, fiquei louco para ter uma banda de Rock ‘n’ Roll.
A música em questão é “don’t look back in anger”. Na verdade, essa banda era simplesmente sensacional. Segue agora o link da mesma para que todos possam curtir um rock de qualidade. Daqueles tempos que não voltam mais.
VIDA LONGA AOROCK ‘N’ ROLLBRITÂNICO.
Falando em Oasis... Essa banda tem uma peculiaridade. Para quem entende um pouco de música já deve ter percebido que o Oasis faz o mesmo som limpo e quase perfeito tanto em shows ao vivo quanto em álbuns de estúdio, coisa que nem todas as bandas conseguem fazer.
Então como diz a música, não “olhe pra traz com raiva”.
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health.
Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.
Dexteris an American television drama series that centers onDexter Morgan(Michael C. Hall), abloodstain pattern analystfor theMiami Metro Police Departmentwho moonlights as aserial killer.
The show debuted on October 1, 2006, onShowtimeand thefifth seasonended on December 12, 2010. As of December 2, 2010, the show has been renewed for a sixth season. Set inMiami, the show'sfirst seasonwas largely based on the novelDarkly Dreaming DexterbyJeff Lindsay, the first of his series of Dexter novels. Subsequent seasons have evolved independently of Lindsay's works. It was adapted for television by screenwriterJames Manos, Jr., who wrote thepilot episode.
Dexter structures his killing around "the Code of Harry", a body of ethics and procedures devised by his adoptive father Harry Morgan (who was a Miami cop) to make sure Dexter never gets caught and to ensure that Dexter kills only other killers. Harry also trained Dexter in how to interact convincingly with other people despite his dissociative mental illness, which Harry believed to be sociopathy, arising from Dexter witnessing the brutal murder of his biological mother, Laura Moser. As an adult, Dexter has largely escaped suspicion (with some exceptions) by being genial and generous and maintaining generally superficial relationships. However, his attachment to his foster (and ultimately adoptive) sister, Debra, his girlfriend (later wife), Rita, his stepchildren, Astor and Cody, and later his biological son, Harrison, have all complicated his double life and made him question his need to kill. In fact, in the first season, newly-found memories of his mother's murder set in motion the slow but steady humanization of Dexter, progressing further with each season, as Dexter begins to experience a variety of emotions for the first time in years.
In February 2008, edited reruns began to air onCBS. The series has enjoyed wide critical acclaim and popularity. Season 4 aired its season finale on December 13, 2009 to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers, making it the most-watched original series episode ever on Showtime.Michael C. Hall has received several awards and nominations for his portrayal of Dexter, including a Golden Globe. The series was picked up by Showtime for a sixth season, which was billed as not being the final season, leaving possibilities open for a seventh.
A capacidade de se comunicar oralmentena língua alvo não é um objetivo de ensino, mas sim a leitura, que é justamente a habilidade a ser desenvolvida além da escrita.
A língua estrangeira não é usada em sala senão como material de tradução, que é uma meta importante para o aluno, sendo inclusive, questão principal na avaliação.
Deve-se estar ciente das regras gramaticaisda língua alvo, memorizar vocabulário, conjugações verbais e outros itens gramaticais. A maior parte da interação na sala de aula é do professor com os alunos. Há pouca iniciativa partida do aluno e raramente ocorre interação aluno – aluno.
O método direto tem esse nome devido à forma de abordar a língua alvo diretamente sem traduçãopara a língua nativa. As aulas são totalmente ministradas na língua alvo desde o início, através de situações baseadas na vida real.
O conteúdo é introduzido pelo professor através de objetos também reais ou de figuras, fotos, gestos, para que o aluno associe o significado da língua estrangeira diretamente, sem tradução para a língua nativa.
A iniciativa da conversação parte tanto do professor quanto dos alunos, que também conversam entre si. A gramática nunca é apresentada explicitamente, mas deve ser intuída pelos alunos.
Ele surgiu a partir das idéias geradas pela psicologia behaviorista. Os alunos devem aprendê-la automaticamente sem parar para pensar, formando novos hábitos na língua alvo e superando os antigos hábitos de sua língua nativa.
O conteúdo é sempre bastante estrutural, sendo apresentado em diálogos iniciais. Esses diálogos são aprendidos com memorização, imitação e repetição. A partir deles, são conduzidos exercícios para fixação dos conteúdos e vocabulário. As repostas certas dos alunos são reforçadas positivamente com prêmios ou elogios. Gramática explícita.
Atualizando...
About the role of the
teacher (Audio-Lingual Method):
The teacher is like an orchestra leader, directing and
controlling the language behavior of her students. She is also responsible for
providing her students with a good model for imitation. Students are imitators
of the teacher’s model or the tapes she supplies of model speaker. They follow
the teacher’s directions and respond as accurately and as rapidly
(Larsen-Freeman 2010, p. 45)
What is the nature of
student-teacher interaction?
There is student-to-student interaction in chain
drills or when students take different roles in dialogs, but this interaction
is teacher-directed. Most of the interaction is between teacher and students
and is initiated by the teacher. (Larsen-Freeman 2010, p. 46)
How does the teacher respond
to student errors?
Student errors are to be avoided if at all possible
through the teacher’s awareness of where the students will have difficulty and restriction
of what they are taught to say. (Larsen-Freeman 2010, p. 47)
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2010). Techniques and principles in language
teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Há muita ênfase no sentimento dos alunos e na necessidade de ativação de suas potencialidades cerebrais. Para isso o ambiente de estudodeve ser relaxante e confortável, e o aluno precisa confiar no professor para que ele possa ativar sua imaginação e ajudá-lo na aprendizagem. Pôsteres com informações gramaticais são dispostos pela sala e trocados periodicamente para incitar a aprendizagem periférica do aluno, ou seja, sua capacidade de aprender através de estímulos externos.
It is known that teaching is not only a question of teaching rules, graphics, how to use maps and the likes. Moreover, it is much more than simply standing in front of the classroom and faces an audience hungry for knowledge.
Some teachers, with experience or not, seem to have an ability to think on their feet, which allows them to believe that they do not need to plan their lessons. However, most teachers go on preparing lessons throughout their careers, even if the plans are very informal. It is said that teaching needs preparation. It is, teachers must prepare and guide students into the path of success. In addition, authentic teachers need to observe and deal with an amount of details.
Firstly, teachers have to adapt the lessons to their students’ realities; in language classes, it is not different from any other kind of classes, students expect their teachers to be creative and plan their lessons.
One thing that teachers should consider is that students will realize if the lessons were not planned before and it can show the image that the teacher does not care about his/her job. Unfortunately, it happens more frequently than we think.
There is no doubt the lesson plans are important in teaching. When planning, we, teachers, should observe students’ needs and possible problems that may happen; and think about the tools we are going to use in advance. In addition, teachers are supposed to arrive earlier in the classroom in order to check if the equipment and the likes are really available that day.
this text is appropriate for pre-intermediate levels.
God is sitting in Heaven when a scientist says to Him, "Lord, we don't need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing. In other words, we can now do what you did in the 'beginning'."
"Oh, is that so? Tell me..." replies God.
"Well,” says the scientist, "we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of You and breathe life into it, thus creating man."
"Well, that's interesting. Show Me."
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil.
"Oh no, no, no..." interrupts God, "Get your own dirt."
Resolvi escrever uma série de mini artigos sobre os métodos de ensino de línguas, passando por seus processos históricos, suas práticas e uma breve explicação sobre o método em questão, melhor, acompanhado de um vídeo, pretendo demonstrar como o método era utilizado em sala de aula.
O objetivo desse espaço é ajudar aos estudantes de Letras de todo o Brasilnos seus estudos dos métodos.
O primeiro desses métodos é o “Silent Way”.
Sobre o Silent Way.
Nesse método a aquisição lingüística é vista como um processo no qual as pessoas, através do raciocínio, descobrem e formulam regras sobre a língua aprendida. Esta aprendizagem visa à expressão do pensamento, percepção e sentimento dos alunos. Para isso eles precisam desenvolver autoconfiança e independência. É o aluno quem constrói seu aprendizado, sendo que o professor pode incitar sua percepção, provocar seu raciocínio. O “silêncio” é uma ferramenta para esse fim. A todo momento os alunos são incitados a pensarem e o silêncio do professor os obriga a se ajudarem mutuamente. Fichas com cores, ou sinais que representem sons ou palavras são constantemente usados. O professor cria situações que focalizam a atenção dos alunos para a estrutura da língua. Com o mínimo de pistas faladas, os alunos são conduzidos a produzir a estrutura. As quatro habilidades se reforçam mutuamente.
If you are not an English Teacher, I am sorry, but this is not for you. It is just for English Language Teachers. I know, I know, I know. There are a lot of social networks, websites, blogs and things like that: Facebook, Orkut, Twitter and blah, blah, blah. But this one is different. This one was especially created for those that are interested in sharing their classroom experiences.
This social network was not created for those that do not speak English; better, it was not created for those that are not English Teachers. Whoever has created this TEFL-me.comhas got a new fan: ME, Bruno Coriolano.
What I am trying to say is that you, English Teachers, can meet a lot of English teachers from all over the world from your home. How? Easy.
Ladies and gentlemen, it gives a great pleasure to present to you.
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“The main idea behind TEFLme is to allow teachers to meet online and share their thoughts and advice about TEFL teaching. Unlike standard forums this takes place within a social network built specifically for TEFL teachers where people can interact in a variety of ways which makes the process easier and more fun”. Says Michael May.
TEFL-me.com is a global social network for teachers Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Are you an English Teacher? What are you waiting for? I am in.
How to participate? Simple. Very simple and you do not have to pay for anything.
