ELT365 · Day 190 — Oral drilling: choral before individual
Idea — Drilling establishes pronunciation and form. Choral drilling — whole class together — lowers anxiety and lets learners rehearse without exposure. Individual drilling checks and…
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ELT365 · 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 177 — Using images as a pre-listening scaffold
Idea — Images activate schema and emotion before learners hear a word. A photo of the speaker, the setting, or the topic gives context that reduces…
ReadELT365 · Day 176 — Transcription tasks: a tool, not a crutch
Idea — Transcription — writing out what you hear word for word — is powerful for raising phonological awareness, but overused as a main listening task…
ReadELT365 · Day 159 — Why every listening needs a task
Idea — Set a reason to listen before playing audio. A clear task focuses attention and turns passive exposure into purposeful practice; without one, learners drift…
ReadELT365 · Day 211 — A process-writing lesson framework
Idea — A process-writing lesson runs: lead-in → study a model → plan → draft → peer or teacher feedback → revise. The feedback-and-revise loop is…
ReadELT365 · Day 210 — Linking speaking and writing
Idea — Productive skills reinforce each other: discuss then write, or draft then present. Pairing them gives writing an audience and speaking a record, and mirrors…
ReadELT365 · Day 208 — Correction codes for writing
Idea — Marking every error overwhelms learners and does the work for them. A correction code (Sp = spelling, WO = word order, T = tense)…
ReadELT365 · Day 207 — Collaborative writing
Idea — Writing together — in pairs or groups — surfaces language choices through discussion, shares the load, and lets learners learn from each other before…
ReadELT365 · Day 206 — Freer and creative writing
Idea — Freer writing hands learners the topic and lets them shape the text themselves, building fluency and ownership. It follows controlled practice, once the form…
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