ELT365 · Day 155 — Gist Listening: The One-Question Rule
Idea — A gist task asks one broad question answered by the whole text. Its purpose is to give listening a reason before the detail work…
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ELT365 · Day 154 — Bottom-Up Processing: Sounds Build Meaning
Idea — Bottom-up processing starts with the signal — letters, phonemes, words — and builds up to meaning. It is essential when context is unclear or…
ReadELT365 · Day 153 — Top-Down Processing: Meaning Comes First
Idea — Top-down processing means using background knowledge, context, and expectation to interpret a text before analysing individual words. The brain predicts before it decodes. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — What Receptive Skills Actually Are
Idea — Receptive skills — listening and reading — involve taking language in, not producing it. Learners receive far more than they produce, so these skills…
ReadELT365 · Day 211 — Error correction — when and why
Idea — Immediate error correction interrupts fluency and can inhibit risk-taking. Delayed correction collects errors during the task and addresses them after. Match the type to…
ReadELT365 · Day 209 — Mixed levels together — pairing strategies
Idea — Pair stronger learners with weaker ones for production tasks; pair same-level learners for accuracy tasks. The goal determines the grouping, not class convention. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 201 — Receptive to productive — the skills bridge
Idea — Receptive input feeds productive output. Learners cannot speak or write language they have never encountered in listening or reading. Plan a reading-to-speaking or listening-to-writing…
ReadELT365 · Day 200 — Mixed-ability speaking groups — roles that equalise
Idea — Mixed-ability speaking groups fail when stronger learners dominate. Role cards that assign specific responsibilities force every learner to contribute regardless of level. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 191 — Delayed error correction — the board trick
Idea — Write anonymised errors on the board during a fluency task. After the task, learners correct them together. Class-built correction; no individual embarrassment. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 190 — Content feedback vs language feedback
Idea — Give content feedback first — validate the communicative act — before correcting language. This tells learners the message matters, not only the form. Example…
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