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Back in class: thoughts from learning and teaching languages at low levels

Written by Andrew Walkley on . Posted in Opinions. No Comments on Back in class: thoughts from learning and teaching languages at low levels

During the eighteen months of writing the new edition of Outcomes I put my teaching and language learning efforts on hold. Back in January 2022, when we started the project, I was teaching a beginner Spanish class and learning Russian, but it quickly became clear that my addled brain was not going to do multi-tasking very well, so the lessons came to an end.   Now Outcomes is finished and I’m back in the classroom. I’m teaching a low-level Spanish class with a colleague at Lexical Lab and also starting again with Russian as what I guess you might describe as a false beginner. In...

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Translation in language classes: tackling the taboo

Written by Hugh Dellar on . Posted in Classroom Activities, Grammar, Lexis, Opinions, Revision, Teaching lexically, The state of our profession. 8 Comments on Translation in language classes: tackling the taboo

Translation is a fantastic tool for all language teachers to use in their classes. That might be a surprising statement from a native speaker teacher working in a multi-lingual teaching context in the UK. and to be honest it’s been a long and winding road that brought me to that view. Let me take you on that journey and show you some ways translation can help, even when you don’t share your students’ L1 – i.e. their own language. The absence of translation in training Back in 1993, when I did my four-week CELTA course, there was certainly no mention of...

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