Today, my students managed to drain all my energy. I thought the day would go smoothly because we had just come back from a four day holiday, but I was entirely wrong. Firstly,
Today I just have some thoughts I'd like to share with whomever is reading this. Maybe you're going through the same things, or maybe you haven't stopped to think about them yet.Preparing online
* This was originally posted on my old blog on 3rd June 2017.Dogme ELT is a teaching philosophy started by a group of teachers who considered that there seemed to be an over-reliance on materials
What is Baamboozle?It's a website where teachers can create their own educational games or use one of the countless already made by other teachers. My students from all ages and levels love it
* This was originally posted in my former blog - Today, my students - on 30th May 2017.I became interested in Dogme after attending a three-day course with Luke Meddings in Brazil in 2012.
This is the first post of a series I will begin taking about some online teaching tools that are certainly very useful for English teachers.Wordwall websiteWhat is Wordwall?The first tool I will present
Coming from an ELT general English teaching context, I could find some similarities and differences between both fields. Some people would say that EAP (English for Academic Purposes) is a "more specialized" sector
Today, I'm going to tell you how I got into EAP and some basic concepts around this field that I am beginning to study for my current teaching practice.I have never been a
* This text was originally posted on my former blog - Today, my students... - on 16th February 2021.I should have written this post about one year ago when it all started. However,
I know I should have created this blog in the beginning of the pandemic, but I couldn't. There was too much going on and it was too much for me (and all of
About Me
I'm Duda Costa, an English teacher from Recife, Brazil. I have started teaching in 2009. I am graduated in Letras and I hold a Master's degree in Linguistics focusing on Language Acquisition. I hold a CELTA and DELTA Module 1. I like teaching children, teens and adults of all levels. In this blog, I will share experiences, things I like to study, and mostly some random thoughts about education and teaching English in the 21st century. I hope you enjoy and leave a comment! :)
