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Oh, the places you’ll go!

Starting out

Nearing the end of my undergraduate study, I was working on a small research essay and was having some trouble figuring out the direction it should take. It was in a unit on refugee law, which I was very interested in, but couldn’t quite decide what the essay should focus on. Then, by chance, I came across some articles that looked at communication and language-related challenges in refugee visa application processes.

And that was it: I was hooked. The...

En esta entrada quiero mostraros una infografía que he realizado, junto con mi compañera Cristina, para la asignatura de Las TIC en Didáctica de ELE.  Dado que para realizarla se nos puso como condición basarnos en uno de los temas tratados en clase, hemos decidido hacerla sobre cómo gravar un vídeo con el móvil en el aula. El motivo por el cual hemos decidido escoger este tema es, por una parte, porque nos parece interesante y puede ser una buena manera de familiarizar e introducir las TIC o el uso de los móviles en el...

Yucky worms or yummy treats?

When I arrived in the UK from Poland in 2004, I did not know that prawns even existed. During our first dubious encounter, I categorized the not-so-aesthetically-pleasing crustaceans as ‘worms’ and...

When a gamer beats a level of a game and moves on to the next level, it is called “Leveling up”. In certain games, you can increase your chances by earning more points, collecting coins, or obtaining specific weapons to help you defeat the opponent.  Gamers have their strategies on what they need to do to level up. Our students also need to know what strategies they have as language students so that they too can “level up” on the ACTFL proficiency levels. Does a novice student know what they need to do to work their way up to the intermediate level?

My initial inspiration for this posted started many months ago when I saw a tweet by Bethanie Drew (@lovemysummer) when she posted a link to her blog with...