ELT365 · Day 190 — From mechanical to meaningful drills
Idea — Mechanical drills (simple repetition or substitution) fix form; meaningful drills make learners choose words based on real information. Move from mechanical to meaningful so…
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ELT365 · Day 184 — The information gap: why learners actually talk
Idea — An information gap means Learner A holds information Learner B needs, and vice versa. It creates a genuine communicative purpose — they must speak…
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ReadELT365 · Day 189 — Drilling: choral then individual
Idea — Drilling rehearses pronunciation and form through repetition: choral (whole class together, low pressure) before individual (one learner, accountable). It buys confidence before learners perform…
ReadELT365 · Day 183 — Fluency vs accuracy: the tension at the heart of production
Idea — Fluency means communicating meaning without interruption; accuracy means using form correctly. Every speaking and writing task sits somewhere on the scale — and you…
ReadELT365 · Day 188 — Making discussions work
Idea — Open discussions often die because the question is dull, the answer is one word, or stronger voices dominate. Concrete, divisive prompts and small groups…
ReadELT365 · Day 182 — What ‘productive’ means: speaking and writing
Idea — Productive skills are speaking and writing — skills where learners generate language rather than receive it. They require learners to retrieve, organise, and produce…
ReadELT365 · Day 187 — Role-plays and simulations
Idea — Role-plays put learners into situations — job interview, complaint, doctor's visit — to rehearse real language safely. Clear roles, a goal and a setting…
ReadELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 review — receptive skills
Idea — This month covered the full receptive skills toolkit: top-down and bottom-up processing, gist and detail tasks, skimming and scanning, text selection, lead-ins, and the…
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