“Scaffolding” (Nuttall, 1996, p.36) is a process that “focus on ena...

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

The conceptual difference between “method” and “approach” is an interesting point to start discussing English language teaching. According to Richards...

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

Learners of English as a foreign language usually have problems in distinguishing between oral and written English. Oral language typically displays a...

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

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 ...

In the article “Ensino de Línguas: passado, presente e futuro”, Vilson Leffa (2012) predicts a certain “invisibility” to teachers in the future. Accor...

Consider the following noun phrase: ‘the only navigable river’. Suppose a student asks you if there is a difference in meaning if ‘navigable’ is place...

Question address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)When choosing texts for the readin...

In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nuttall (1996, p. 39) presents some reading strategies. According to the author, some of them are ...