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Some of them are a bit less hard-working than others, of course, but still, they all try to do the tasks as well as they can and act on my feedback. They are very talkative, are able to keep discussions going for a long time and hardly ever rely on L1. I sometimes feel like there’s not much for me to teach (apart from some useful phrases and expressions)! Though I should not complain For this semester, I decided on some things I want to try. I. II. III. IV. A Little Bit about the Results Students could choose the language they wanted to use for writing their answers. Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Development. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
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The mobile is central, and will become even more so as time goes by. —David Crystal Digital devices encourage our learners to read constantly and read more than we could have in the past. Unfortunately, our students are inundated with content, which they quickly skim and often share before moving onto the next reading material. They rarely question what they read, fact check, or dive deeper. The best books on Mindfulness — a Five Books interview. CCould you tell me, briefly, what you understand by ‘mindfulness’?
Mindfulness, most simply put, is present moment awareness. That sounds very simple, but as we start to look at our minds we discover that a huge amount of our time is caught up in automatic thinking, and in thinking about the past and the future. Mindfulness is a training in how we can come back to what’s here and what’s present. So it’s a natural capacity that we all have, but we also have practices that we can use to train this capacity and to strengthen it. Before we get into the practices, why would anybody want to be wholly in the present? OpenStax. TeachingEnglish.
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