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This article is about instilling discipline and disciplinary action in the classroom. For a definition of descipline and the causes of indiscipline visit the link below:
Definition of descipline and the causes of indiscipline
Classroom Rules
In a previous article I defined discipline as a code of conduct that both teachers and students agree upon and cooperate in its enforcement. As I said I insist on cooperation and agrreement in classroom management because when  the rules are set by all learning and teaching participants, it will be hard for them …

Importance of discipline
Discipline is paramount for every learning . It is very essential for any teaching. It is also very important for peace and harmony in any learning environment: peace between students, teachers and administration. That’s why it is always necessary for discipline to be instilled in students to get the best out of your students.
In this article I will present a definition of descipline and the causes of indiscipline. In the next article I will suggest ways to instill discipline and how disciplinary action should be …

Shaping the Way We Teach English
Learning Strategies
What is the goal of learning strategies?
what are the different learning strategies?
How can we understand and facilitate learning for students of all ages?

Difficulties to develop communicative tests
If teaching is carried out according to the communicative approach, then tests must be designed accordingly. However a lot of teachers believe that communicative tests are hard to prepare. In fact various challenging difficulties emerge when teachers develop communicative tests.

One crucial concern is the problem of developing useful assessment instruments which can be employed accurately and efficiently in a range of typical classroom situations.
Another challenge is to develop a  framework  which is based on attending to the theoretical requirements of …

Acquiring two languages at once?
This is a question I have been asked many times. Is it harder for a child to acquire more than one language at the same time?
There is no evidence to suggest that learning two languages at the same time is a hard task for a child! If parents and/or the people in the close environement of the child are regularly speaking with him or her in both languages, the child will have no difficulty learning them both. This is true for every child regardless of his …

Blooom’s taxonomy refers to a classification of the different learning objectives. It was first presented in 1956, but many changes were later added to the initial classification.
Domains
Bloom classifies educational objectives into three domains, namely:

the affective domain,
the psychomotor domain,
the cognitive domain.

Bloom focused on the cognitive domain leaving experts to identify the categories for the other domains.
The cognitive domain
The cognitive domain refer to categories related to knowledge, comprehension, and critical thinking of a particular topic. Bloom classified these categories into six levels, moving through the lowest order processes to the highest:
Knowledge
Recalling …

Preparing for an EFL or ESl school year
For EFL and ESL teachers the first day of the school year is crucial. It can be stressful but experienced teachers know that having a clear and global  view of their job will contribute to the success of their mission. Preparation must begin in the early days of the year.  It  involves thinking about and planning the school year in advance.
Preparation
To start with, teachers must have a clear view of what they will be teaching. Preparing the content involves choosing the best EFL …

Pygmalion effect
The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal effect, refers to the phenomenon in which theere is a parallel between teachers expectations and the students performance. The effect is named after a narrative by Ovid in Greek mythology in which Pygmalion is a sculptor who fell in love with the ivory statue of a woman he had carved.
Education
In education the pygmalion effect is said to play a crucial role in the students’ performance. Good or bad, what teachers expect from students they generally get. For exapmle negative expectations, which are often …

Why most people fail and how you can succeed to learn a language?
This is a great slideshow that describes why most people fail to learn a language and how it is possible to learn it using specific strategies.
Language Learning: Why Most Fail and How YOU Can Succeed [COMPLETE]
View more presentations from John Fotheringham.

Teaching idioms
The English language has thousands of idioms. Being a fluent English speaker entails being able to understand and use English idioms.
Facts about idioms
These are some facts about idioms (source: Wikipedia)

Although some idioms may have a universal dimension, idioms are first and foremost local, pertaining to the target language culture.
idioms are not generally translatable
People also have a natural tendency to over exaggerate what they mean sometimes, also giving birth to new idioms by accident.
Many idiomatic expressions are based upon conceptual metaphors. (cf kick the bucket, face the music, keep …