Video is so ubiquitous in modern life that we sometimes take students’ comprehension for granted and fail to explore it to the fullest in class. This might happen because we’re not always clear about our goals. What exactly are we trying to achieve? Is it primarily for listening comprehension or something else? There’s nothing wrong, … Read more
Procedural knowledge is, in a nutshell, knowing how to do something. It contrasts with declarative knowledge, which is knowledge about something. For example, I may read about the importance of perfect arm strokes and coordination while swimming and yet drown like a stone when inside the pool. This may sound obvious, I know, but as far as language learning goes, there’s … Read more
Of all the ELT buzzwords I’ve heard, thought about and used over the past decade, noticing is by far the most frequent. Fortunately, noticing is nowhere near as broad and ambivalent as communicative, for example, which makes it much easier to pin down conceptually.
So, what is noticing, anyway, and how does it impact language learning?
If you’ve been in the profession long enough, chances are that you’ve been told, perhaps more than once, that your teacher talking time (TTT) was too high.