'False friends' or 'Useful friends'?
Are false friends really an impediment? Throughout my school life I have been told that I had to be very careful with them... But, is...
Moment of clarity. My language.
Last day I was bored lying on the sofa and I started to think about how my tongue language, which is Valencian, is losing speakers...
Songs as an English learning mechanism
Today I would like to write about an experience that I had as an English teacher trough my last practice period. I attended to a CAES...
Don't insist on English. TED Talk.
In this video Patricia Ryan shows us how we are abusing in the English learning and how we are leaving behind other languages which are...
AMCO Method in use and education.
Today I want to write about AMCO method. We in class have already heard about it, thanks to our mates’ exposition and practice in class....
Are Spanish people just lazy about English?
It is so embarrassing. Many of Erasmus students that visit every year our university speak better English than Valencian ones but why?...
Threshold hypothesis o “Hipòtesi dels llindars”
This hypothesis, developed by Baker in 1997, helps us to explain under what conditions positive, negative or neutral consequences for...
GO AHEAD, MAKE NEW WORDS!
https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_go_ahead_make_up_new_words#t-398183 In this video, we can observe that creation and imagination is...
How to learn Valencian through an orchard project?
During my last teaching training period I was in a classroom where the most part of the students were Spanish speakers and they had a bad...
Is it better to learn by ourselves or to have a teacher?
In this essay I shall try to attempt the following topic: is it better to learn by ourselves or to have a teacher? Firstly, I will give...
