ELT365 · Day 199 — Drafting
Idea — First drafts are for getting ideas down — fluency over accuracy. Teaching learners to draft without self-editing first is a skill in itself. Example…
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ELT365 · Day 198 — Planning a Piece of Writing
Idea — Planning before writing improves coherence and reduces mid-draft paralysis. Teaching learners to plan is itself a productive-skill lesson. Example — A mind map, a…
ReadELT365 · Day 197 — The Process Approach to Writing
Idea — Process writing treats writing as a cycle: plan, draft, revise, edit. The product is secondary to the thinking behind it. Example — Learners brainstorm,…
ReadELT365 · Day 196 — Delayed vs On-the-Spot Correction in Speaking
Idea — On-the-spot correction interrupts fluency — use it sparingly for accuracy tasks. Delayed correction preserves communication in fluency tasks. Example — In a gap-fill drill,…
ReadELT365 · Day 195 — Content vs Language Feedback in Speaking
Idea — After a speaking task, respond to the content first — what learners said. Then address language. Reversing this kills the communicative purpose. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 194 — Monitoring Speaking Tasks
Idea — While learners speak, the teacher circulates and notes language — good examples and errors — for feedback after, not during. Example — A teacher…
ReadELT365 · Day 193 — Drilling for Speaking
Idea — Drilling is not mindless repetition — done well, it builds accurate pronunciation and intonation before a pattern becomes automatic. Example — Choral drill first:…
ReadELT365 · Day 192 — Discussion Tasks
Idea — A discussion task produces language through sustained speaking, but needs a clear structure or it collapses into silence. Example — A ‘balloon debate’ —…
ReadELT365 · Day 191 — Roleplay — Setting It Up
Idea — Roleplay works when learners know the scenario, the relationship between characters, and the goal. Vague setups produce vague language. Example — ‘You are a…
ReadELT365 · Day 190 — Reasoning-Gap Activities
Idea — Reasoning-gap tasks require learners to process information, draw conclusions, and justify them — not just exchange facts or opinions. Example — ‘You have a…
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