Heather Belgorodtseva

Indulging my twin fascination with discourse analysis and social media. I'm also Director of Studies for Teacher Training in the field of ELT.

[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

Tag questions and persuasive language – when negatives are positive https://t.co/wU8GbloMOe

#ELTChat #languagenerds #TEFL

[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

"I apologize if the slang is a bit Gen X. I'm a bit Gen X. I also can't do this at all, because Gen X, not a Londoner and probably way too middle class".

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Audiolingualism is a methodology associated with the theories of B F Skinner, who once taught a two year old to be deathly afraid of his mother’s fur coat.

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#ELTChat #Duolingo #Audiolingualism

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Students do not come to class to learn about the present perfect, they come to class to learn how to speak English.

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I generally approve of not being so dogmatic in your approach to language teaching/ learning that you discount the idea that there might be other ways of doing it.

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I would be having conversations with the proper born and bred Londoners of my acquaintance, and finding them faintly off in some way, until I realised that what was actually happening was...

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There’s a lot of repeating what you hear, copying what you hear, translating in and out of your language but, and this is the interesting thing, quite a lot of it is not meant to be particularly challenging.

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#ELTChat #Duolingo #Audiolingualism

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Yeah, but his mum came out and was all, get in here and do your piano practice, Rupert.

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Because, yes, we can all see the gamification involved in the carefully structured levelling up, and the earning gems, and the being in different leagues competing against other Duolingo participants and so on.

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Tag questions with a falling intonation, force agreement.

Read more about this piece of persoasive language 👉 https://t.co/JFI7qJrfHx

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Am I alone in finding it annoying when people overuse my name when they are trying to sell me things?

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#GriceanMaxims #communication #SmallTalk

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@leoxical @NeilJMcCutcheon @aGhoulfromEldia I wonder if more exposure is needed post teaching. Most modern coursebooks take an exposure 1st, then teaching, then straight to practice route.

I find encountering things I've explicitly learned in texts later very helpful, and I almost never notice them without teaching first.

[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

@leoxical @NeilJMcCutcheon @aGhoulfromEldia The only thing that helps now is explicit instruction/ learning.

Isn't there some parallel with immersion school data there, or am I misunderstanding it?

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@bellinguist I'm so trying this out next opportunity I have.

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@languagejones My possible theory is that the NYT wants to be seen as providing challenging puzzles, especially if they are gonna stick it behind a paywall. It's like the difference between boasting rights for completing a cryptic and non cryptic crossword.

Assuming it's not random statistics.

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There you go - knew someone would have looked into it.

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Would be quite interested to see an analysis of how Wordle words place on frequency lists before and after the takeover.

Wordle 246 3/6

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[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

Appropriately enough her Instagram account is English Teacher Journey. Recommended!

[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

Dasha Fedorova is talking about how her approach to teaching listening has changed.

#ttt_meaningfulweekend

[Heather Belgorodtseva @ThoseSharpWords]

But also it was beautifully integrated into a description of how we all naturally gain a better understanding of teaching the more we learn, from different training experiences and just through experience of teaching.

#ttt_meaningfulweekend