Teacher Professional Development: A Guide to Lifelong Learning
UNIT 7: Teacher Professional Development
7.1 Introduction: Planning Your Professional Development
Lifelong learning means that learning doesn’t stop when you leave school or college. Learning can take place in formal and informal contexts, and we can learn from our peers, students, and more. Using a professional development portfolio is one way we can plan and organize our learning at this stage in our professional life.
7.2 Creating Your Development Portfolio
What is a Professional Development Portfolio?
Read MoreFostering Young Learners’ Reading Habits: Practical Ideas for Primary School
1. Propose some practical ideas that help foster young learners’ reading habits
This essay aims at putting forward practical ideas and activities which help increase Primary School learners’ reading habits. We will first outline our approach to reading and the use of literary texts in foreign language teaching. Then, some practical suggestions on how to use reading materials will be proposed.
As stated in our curriculum, reading constitutes a key factor in the development of the basic competences.
Experienced Export Coordinator Seeking New Opportunities
About Me – Professional Profile
I currently work at Norel, an animal nutrition company, as a Coordinator for the Export Department.
My role is varied and involves sales and service support, administration support, order processing, and liaison with manufacturing and service divisions, including direct customer support.
I follow up on sales and service opportunities to secure business, create customer quotations, manage order processing, carry out export control checks, coordinate international logistics
Read MoreUnderstanding Lexical Structure and Text Types in Linguistics
UNIT 6: The Structure of the Lexical Word
Lexical Components
- Lexeme (Radical or Root): Contains the basic meaning of the word.
- Markers (Derivative Affixes): Modify the basic meaning of the lexeme.
- Grammatical Morpheme: Occurs in grammatical categories with formal variation.
Morphology and Lexicology
Morphology is the branch of linguistics that deals with grammatical morphemes and verb/noun inflections.
Lexicology studies the combination of lexemes and derivative morphemes.
Suffixation
Suffixation is the
Read MoreUnderstanding English Grammar: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and More
Nouns
Concrete Nouns
Concrete nouns are the most typical and central members of the class of nouns. They refer to people, things, and substances.
Abstract Nouns
Abstract nouns are related to ideas, concepts, and intangible objects.
Countable Nouns
Countable nouns refer to discrete, numerable objects.
Mass Nouns
Mass nouns refer to liquids, substances, powders, or qualities.
Common Nouns
Common nouns classify things into types (e.g., “horse” refers to all breeds of horses).
Proper Nouns
Proper nouns do not denote
Read MoreTeaching Vocabulary to Children: Strategies and Techniques
Teaching Vocabulary to Children
4.1 What Do Children Need to Know?
Issues to take into account:
4.1.1 Meaning
Two objectives:
- Meaning in context: Words frequently have more than one meaning (that appears in the dictionary), so students will have to look at the context to select one meaning.
- Sense relations: Sometimes words have meanings in relation to other words and the context, for instance: general and specific words (word families), synonyms, antonyms, etc.
4.1.2 Word Use
- Metaphor and idiom: Word meaning