Two Types of Listening That Make a Great Teacher Joe Germinario May 4, 2021 Being a good listener is imperative as a language teacher. If you’re going to correct and guide your students towards greater fluency, you have to stay aware of what they’re saying, and how they’re saying it. You need to listen to […]
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Planting Seeds: Making the Most of Your English Lessons Joe Germinario April 28, 2021 I often see students get frustrated when they don’t immediately grasp a new concept or continue to make a mistake that was just corrected. This overlooks that some concepts stick quickly, while others take more time, and that getting frustrated with
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How Mindfulness Helped Me Learn Another Language Joe Germinario March 23, 2021 We’ve all heard about Mindfulness and its benefits; it helps reduce stress, improve sleep and increase focus. But what exactly is it, and how can it help you learn a second language? Mindfulness in a Flash Mindfulness is the art of living in
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The Language-Centered Method vs The Leaner-Centered Method Jordie Struck March 18, 2021 Over the last few decades many new methods or teaching techniques have emerged in English second language (ESL) teaching, and most of them have their origins in either the Language-Centered Method (or Audiolingual) of the Learner-Centered Method (LCM). Audiolingual came first and focused
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Making the Choice: The Path to Fluency Joe Germinario March 16, 2021 There are two ways to improve fluency: (a) immersing yourself in a language and (b) having a teacher or a bilingual friend guide and correct you. When I was living in Norway, where much of the population speaks English fluently, I thought it would be
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Keep Motivated & Share your Interests Joe Germinario March 9, 2021 Anyone who has tried to learn a second language for professional reasons knows that it takes focus, determination, and consistency. When you concentrate entirely on the language surrounding work, you will see direct results. But in my experience, being overly one-dimensional in that pursuit
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Blended Learning: An Introduction Jordie Struck March 4, 2021 My interest in Blended Learning (BL) has grown over the past two years as I have begun to use it in my professional English training courses, as well as its widespread application since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. My goal is to develop a BL
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How Learning a Second Language Helped My Teaching Joe Germinario March 1, 2021 As an Anglophone in Montréal, I’ve always had a second language in my life, but growing up in an English neighborhood, I spoke very little French. We didn’t speak it at home. I went to an English school and all my friends
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Learning English One Step at a Time Joe Germinario February 23, 2021 Whenever we set out to achieve long-term goals, a great way to ensure our success is by defining smaller, achievable steps that lead us to our objectives . Most of the time, these steps are quite clear-cut. If your goal is to run
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The First Sentence Joe Germinario February 16, 2021 Over the last decade, I’ve either been living and travelling abroad or teaching English as a second language in Montreal. And every time I was in another country, trying to learn the local language, I took it as an opportunity to test out my language teaching methods
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