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A Matter of Confidence
"Don't think you can do it, know you can do it." Morpheus, The Matrix. Time for a ponderous post, I feel. I’m pinging around Spain this year giving workshops on the importance (of the utter sort) of...
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A Matter of Confidence: Personalising
GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE Personalising. I’m avoiding the word ‘personalisation’ as, for me at least, it has connotations of activities of the “Now tell your partner about your last holiday /...
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A Matter of Confidence: a brief example of ‘personalising’.
I’ve just been answering comments made on A Matter of Confidence: Personalising, and an example came to mind (thanks, Dina and Shahram). The distinction I make between personalisation and personalising...
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A Matter of Confidence: The quest continues…
Light and growth I said in the first of these posts that learning and confidence are like chicken and egg, though perhaps they’re more like light and growth, the one not happening without the other,...
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A teenage kicks diversion
Image courtesy of Chiew Pang aka @aClilToClimb at #eltpics Just as a brief hiatus in the midst of this Confidence flow, I’d like to post a couple of links to ‘stuff’ I’ve done recently – hope you don’t...
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The SM Debate
Wow, this Hole-in-the-Wall lark is DULL!! Image from ELTpics, but currently anonymous. Since Sugata Mitra’s rumble-n-thunder-inspiring plenary at last week’s IATEFL 2014 conference in Harrogate, there...
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A Matter of Confidence: Repetition
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.. This is the fifth post in a series of six on the-chicken-and-the-egg relationship between confidence and learning, and on building your students’...
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A Matter of Confidence: Repetition – again.
This summer, I’ve teacher-trained and I’ve taught B2 students preparing exams – all ‘unplugged’ – although ‘unplugged’ is, in this day and age, a bit of a misleading term. The things I’ve learned...
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Motivating teens: as easy as finding a snowflake that won’t melt.
Waiting for the bread sauce. Image by Dace Praulins at eltpics December 2015’s TeachingEnglish blog topic was motivation. And in particular motivating teens.That is, I guess, ‘my area’ – I’ve been...
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Girls just wanna….
This post is related to a question I posted on Facebook on 3rd January, 2017. Nothing like starting the year with a wallop. Skip it if you don’t want your coffee to go cold. My original question was...
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