ELT365 · Day 153 — Top-down processing: using what you know
Idea — Top-down processing means using prior knowledge — topic, context, genre — to make sense of a text before fully decoding it. It is fast…
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ELT365 · Day 158 — Pre-listening: activating schemata
Idea — Before listening, learners should switch on what they already know about the topic — their schemata. Activated background knowledge fuels top-down prediction and makes…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — What ‘receptive’ means in ELT
Idea — Receptive skills are listening and reading — skills where learners receive and decode language rather than produce it. Understanding them is the first step…
ReadELT365 · Day 157 — Inferring meaning while listening
Idea — Speakers leave a lot unsaid; listeners infer attitude, relationship and intention from tone, stress and context. This sub-skill is often neglected but central to…
ReadELT365 · Day 212 — Month 7 review and what’s next
Idea — Productive skills (Days 182-211) rest on a few moves: separate fluency from accuracy, travel controlled to freer, raise student talking time, and treat writing…
ReadELT365 · Day 156 — Listening for detail
Idea — Intensive or detailed listening targets precise meaning — exact words, grammar, attitude. It is demanding, so it usually comes last, after gist and specific-information…
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 155 — Listening for specific information
Idea — Here learners scan a stream of speech for particular items — a price, a time, a name — and ignore the rest. The task…
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 154 — Listening for gist
Idea — Gist listening means catching the overall message — topic, mood, purpose — without every word. It is the first pass, and learners often skip…
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