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Questions tagged [pedagogy]

This tag is for questions about practices of teaching English to language learners.

Pedagogy is the science of education. It researches tools, methodologies, and practices of effective delivering the knowledge to the learners. These tools may be of a formal, academic nature, or informal practices like .

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What is the official criteria to measure current level of English?

I want to improve my English, especially writing and speaking. Therefore, I need an indicator of my current level of English competence. Having a reliable metric in hand, I would be able to see how my English skills improved with time. Is there an…
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How can I increase my focus and pleasure in reading English?

After working on my oral skills in English for a couple of years, I am now more interested in learning written English, specially by reading. I have been reading a couple of books over the last months (Game of Thrones, the whole Sherlock Holmes,…
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In what order to learn English?

If I had to teach someone English, I'd probably start with the alphabet, some pronunciation for interaction, and that'd be a first basis to learn the language, along with a few basic words (objects, colors, numbers). That being done, building a few…
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Ways to organize an ESL course?

I'm working on a game to learn English, and grappling with the best way to organize the course. It would be great to hear from people what they've liked when using other apps. I guess there are a few approaches: by difficulty level split grammar…
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Online Resources for Learning English

I teach a module that includes technical writing. More than 50% of the students are non-native English speakers. I'd like to provide some pointers to online resources that may be useful to students like this. I welcome your suggestions and the…
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Extent of topic complexity for 15-minute demo lesson

Following a recent job interview, I was invited to give a demo lesson. As is mostly the case, I suppose, the hiring staff are going to pose as students. The school did not give any specific instructions except that it should be between 10 and 15…
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'Where is the number 1'? or 'Where is the digit 1'? or simply 'where is 1'?

While practicing numbers with children, what's the natural way to ask them about identifying numbers among mixed numbers? 'Where is the number 1'? Vs. 'Where is the digit 1'? Vs. simply 'where is 1'? Or other ways?
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