Learning process studies are undergoing an important transition phase since different methods and techniques are being developed for education. In this context, recreational activities are effective teaching strategies for English teaching. When applying ludic activities in the classroom, teachers should be aware that

Whenever you are teaching a reading technique, make sure students know their purpose in reading something. Skimming and scanning are reading techniques. The purpose of scanning is

Research and practice have identified “the four skills” as of paramount importance to language teaching. The four skills are

The teaching course in ESP (English for Specific Purpose)can be defined as

Bottom-up and Top-down strategies are among the principles for designing interactive reading. Choose the correct affirmative:

An overall rhetorical shape of a genre can give useful indication of a textual genre movement and/or organization.

The figure below is a table with frequencies of selected items in Research Papers (RP), based on sections from its overall rhetorical shape: introduction, methods, results and discussion.

Considering the information and the table one can say that

“The trouble with words is that most of them have got more than one meaning – they’re ambiguous. We can see this straight if we look in the dictionary. Most of the entries give more than one meaning to a word” (CRISTAL, D. 2010, p. 37).

The word “trouble” in the following extract is related to o

Nowadays it is assumed that English teaching should rely on a trend toward skill integration. There are the least five models of integrated skill approaches listed below. Match the APPROACH to the corresponding DESCRIPTION.

APPROACHES

1. Content based teaching

2. Theme-based teaching

3. Experimental learning

4. Episode hypothesis

5. Task-based teaching

DESCRIPTIONS

A. can serve the multiple interests of students in a classroom and can offer a focus on content while still adhering to institutional needs for offering a language course.

B. presents language in form of sentences that are interconnected in an interest-provoking episode.

C. gives students concrete experiences through which they “discover” language principles.

D. specifies what a learner needs to do with the English language in terms of target tasks that require communicative language.

E. integrates the learning of some specific subject-matter content with the learning of a second language.

Choose the CORRECT option:

The human race has fashioned two forms of productive and two forms of receptive performances. They are, respectively,

Academic writing is a wide term for a range of approaches and types of practice for it. Some authors seem to agree that all different approaches can be subsumed under two umbrella terms: product approach and process approach.

In Product Approach attention is given to