According to Harmer (2007) in “How to teach English”, the discovery approach is a possible way of teaching grammar. In t...

Considering the expression of happenings in the past, verbs vary following time precision or imprecision. The example extracted from the editorial tha...

Consider the following sentence from a student’s essay. “The theme of this short story make us see the beauty in another vision.” (source: a real stud...

“Scaffolding” (Nuttall, 1996, p.36) is a process that “focus on enabling students to develop”. In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nut...

Suppose you are correcting some literary essays. In one essay, you find the following extract.“It begins with the Giant coming back to his garden afte...

In “Dimensões Comunicativas no Ensino de Línguas", Almeida Filho (2007) discusses the types of competence a language teacher should achieve. For the a...

According to the “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais”, communicative competence is composed of the following three types of knowledge:

Suppose a student asks you if 'whose' in the following academic passage is wrong. “There is a way of proceeding in conceptual matters whose method is ...

The “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais" claim that learning a foreign language contributes to the learning of the first language. According to this do...

In language teaching studies, some attempts of modeling the reading process have been made. The approach to reading that is generally accepted today i...

Question address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs) Theories, assumptions and beliefs...