Stop Asking ‘Do You Understand?’ — Use CCQs Instead
⏱ 5 MINUTES | 📊 Teacher Training | 📚 TEACHER TRAINING Stop Asking ‘Do You Understand?’ — Use CCQs Instead 🎙 From the classroom: My first week in the classroom in Landerneau, Brittany, I asked…
Category: Teaching Methodology
What is a CCQ? — Teacher Training Micro-Lesson
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5-Min Pro · Dealing with Disruptive Learners: Three Strategies
The idea — Most classroom disruption is unmet need: boredom (task too easy), confusion (task too hard), or social need (task not engaging enough). The behaviour is the message. Read it before responding to it.…
5-Min Pro · Reflective Teaching Journals: A Practical Start
The idea — Reflective journals become abandoned documents because people start too ambitiously. Three paragraphs per lesson is not sustainable. One question per week is. In practice — Pick one question and return to it…
ELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 Review: Receptive Skills Quiz
Quick check — no notes. Answer from memory, then compare with a colleague or the recap below. What is the difference between gist and detail listening tasks? Name two types of while-listening task that work…
ELT365 · Day 180 — L1 Interference in Listening
Idea — L1 phonological systems can interfere with listening in English. Learners may systematically mishear phoneme contrasts that don’t exist in their first language, no matter how many times they listen. Example — Japanese learners…
ELT365 · Day 179 — Connected Speech and Listening
Idea — Native speakers link, reduce, and swallow sounds in ways that standard pronunciation syllabi don’t cover. Learners trained only on careful speech are unprepared for real connected speech. Example — ‘What are you going…
ELT365 · Day 178 — Using Video in Class
Idea — Video adds a visual channel to listening, which can support or distract depending on the task. Watch without sound first to build prediction; then watch with sound. Or use sound only first, then…
ELT365 · Day 177 — Checking Comprehension Without ‘Did You Understand?’
Idea — Asking ‘Did you understand?’ after a listening is useless: learners who didn’t understand don’t know they didn’t understand, and those who did understand have nothing useful to say. Example — Instead, ask a…
ELT365 · Day 176 — Predicting Before Listening
Idea — Prediction activates schema, reduces anxiety, and gives learners a purpose for listening. When learners predict and then check their predictions, comprehension improves even when they are wrong. Example — Show the title of…