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?
Before you scroll down for the two videos, here’s some food for thought.
Students of all ages and levels often get the third person S wrong, and it seems important to understand why this happens so we can intervene. Here are a few issues to keep in mind:
Here’s a 10-minute video containing eight song excerpts filled with second conditional examples. If you want to use them, just Google the song title + lyrics and have fun. YouTube will have all the original clips, of course. Have fun! Be warned, though, that some of the songs are pretty cringe-inducing, especially Bonnie Tyler’s 1986 … Read more