Αρχεία Κατηγοριών: Χωρίς κατηγορία

For years it has been widely believed that teaching foreign languages to children at early age is advantageous (Zein & Garton, 2019; Pinter, 2017; Griva & Semoglou, 2015; Enever, 2011). However, the most common concern was the stereotypical view that learning a foreign language will lead to language confusion, language development delay or cognitive deficit,Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης «The Benefits of Learning English at a Young Age»

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ― Albert Einstein The learning environment of public Greek primary schools relies solely on rote memorization where students are taught English mostly three hours per week in a decontextualized way.Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης «Fairytales in EFL classroom»

While most people in the past were horrified at the thought that their child had developed a mental disease because they noticed symptoms like slow reading, trouble spelling or messing up words in their children’s literacy behavior, nowadays parents know better than shunning or regarding their children as if they are mentally retarded: Dyslexia, whichΣυνέχεια ανάγνωσης «Dyslexia in the classroom»

If you are reading this post now, you probably read my mind. You probably are one of the teachers that feel satisfied at the end of the delivery course. And why shouldn’t you be? You have taught all the norms of Present Simple and Present Continuous. You have given and explained all the examples toΣυνέχεια ανάγνωσης «Five fun activities for Present Simple and Present Continuous»

Undoubtedly these are challenging and unusual times for each and every person as all of us have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreaks throughout the world. In these difficult times we can rise to the challenge by staying at home and being united as we have done with every other global crisis in the past.Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης «10 Best Easter Activities»

“I am a Muslim, and a Hindu, and a Christian, and a Jew- and so are all of you.” How could these words slip my mind? How could I skip the non-violent mass action that Gandhi followed to achieve independence for India? Gandhi was a great leader, an Independence fighter, a social activist who triedΣυνέχεια ανάγνωσης «Go ahead with a multicultural concept in class»

Still remember the days I was sitting at the round table in class, having an English lesson. I was trying to pay so much attention to what my teacher was teaching, trying to keep my eyes open and bobbing my head up and down, pretending I understood every nuance of the facts and grammar. ButΣυνέχεια ανάγνωσης «Replacing classroom boredom with teaching wisdom»