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"Reflections of a language teacher.
Always learning."
Silvia Bastow
Mar 6, 20216 min read
Feedback reflections
Recently, I have read ‘The Feedback Pendulum’ by Michael Chiles which analyses different types of feedback and its research based...
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Silvia Bastow
Feb 20, 20215 min read
Dual coding – how can it be used in Languages
We – teachers spend a lot of our time planning and designing engaging resources for our students. However, the question I will pose...
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Silvia Bastow
Feb 1, 20217 min read
Metacognition, self-regulated learning and revision
Many educators have been talking more and more about the importance of metacognition (thinking about one’s thinking) and metacognitive...
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Silvia Bastow
Jan 16, 20216 min read
Listening or breaking the 'fear' barrier…
On this post, I would like to concentrate on the listening skill, which based on a survey I did with my students, they find the hardest...
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Silvia Bastow
Jan 1, 20215 min read
Translation – tangled, rock climbing, bubble, mosaic, ping-pong….
My students don’t actually realise that I teach them a ‘foreign’ language through a ‘foreign’ language. As I am not English, speak with...
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Silvia Bastow
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Achieving grade 9 in the 150 word extended writing task
Following the amazing response to my post on ‘Preparing students for GCSE extended writing task’ (the post had almost 900 views on the...
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