ELT365 · Day 193 — Delayed Feedback: The Hot Correction Slot
Idea — Delayed feedback collects learner errors during a fluency task and addresses them immediately after — while the language is still warm. It protects flow…
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ELT365 · Day 192 — On-the-Spot Error Correction: When and How
Idea — Immediate correction suits accuracy-focused tasks — drills, written exercises. During fluency tasks, it breaks flow and discourages speaking. Decide the task aim first, then…
ReadELT365 · Day 191 — The Task-Based Speaking Cycle (Willis)
Idea — Willis’s TBL cycle: pre-task (introduce topic, activate language) → task (meaning first) → planning and report (prepare to present) → language focus (reflect on…
ReadELT365 · Day 189 — Discussion Tasks: Grading the Demand
Idea — Discussion tasks vary in cognitive and linguistic difficulty. Match the demand to the level: A2 needs concrete familiar topics with scaffolding; C1 can handle…
ReadELT365 · Day 188 — Role-Play: Context, Cards, Correction Window
Idea — Role-plays succeed when learners know their character, situation, and goal before they begin. Context cards do this work. Correction happens after — never interrupt…
ReadELT365 · Day 186 — Drilling: Choral → Individual → Substitution
Idea — Drilling is repetition for pronunciation and automatisation. Move from choral (everyone together) to individual (one learner) to substitution (swap one element). Never drill before…
ReadELT365 · Day 184 — Controlled Practice: The Purpose of the Cage
Idea — Controlled practice limits what learners can say to focus attention on one language point. It is not natural language, but it reduces cognitive load…
ReadELT365 · Day 177 — Listening to Accents: Exposure, Not Drilling
Idea — Research (Derwing & Munro) shows that listeners adapt to unfamiliar accents through exposure, not accent-drilling exercises. Variety builds tolerance; correction builds anxiety. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 176 — Discourse Markers as Listening Anchors
Idea — Discourse markers — “however,” “the key point is,” “moving on” — signal shifts in topic, contrast, and emphasis. Training learners to hear them reveals…
ReadELT365 · Day 174 — Ordering Tasks: Sequence and Cohesion
Idea — Ordering tasks ask learners to reconstruct the sequence of events, arguments, or steps from a text — testing comprehension of discourse structure, not just…
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