For three days (July 17, 18 and 19) Troikabr promoted one of the greatest ELT events I’ve ever been part of: TroikaXperience. This online event gathered prominent guest speakers in the field of ELT; offered 6-hour courses about 6 different trending topics to choose fr...

Writing this article was a struggle for me. I started searching about Dogme when I was asked to write an article and teach a lesson using an approach I had yet never used when taking the Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, also known as Delta. T...

In the first days of quarantine, I was adamant in saying there was no lesson to be learned in this period.  It is a moment of crisis, and thinking of coming out of this pandemia a “better person” seemed absurd. I didn’t want to be a better person, I wanted to be alive,...

Desde o início do período de isolamento social, quando muitas Universidades do país suspenderam as aulas presenciais, nós professores tivemos que enfrentar uma nova realidade: o ensino à distância.

Frente à situação atual da pandemia da COVID-19, o Ministério da Educaçã...

“You may not be remembered by your students for what you taught them,

but rather for how you taught them, and for the feelings you engendered in them.” 

(Mackay, Jenny, 2006)

Since the night I first read that sentence, I’ve dedicated my teaching to making my students awar...

DISCLAIMER: This article is based solely on my experience.

Today (03/27), as I scrolled down Facebook posts, I could see many teachers willing to help other teachers who were struggling to migrate to online classes. In times of COVID-19, when everybody should be confine...

Back on ‘BrELT on The Road 2019’ (an amazing event on English Language Teaching that took place in Casa Thomas Jefferson, in Brasília), I had the opportunity to talk to a few teachers about linguistic variation and English classes. Such a topic deals with lots of theor...

DISCLAIMER: I don’t mean in any way to disrespect or undermine trans people. In such cases, the social name is the one that should be used. For the purpose of the text I used expressions like real, given or birth name as opposed to anglicised, translated, English or we...

Muitos professores, em algum ponto de sua carreira, decidem dar aulas particulares. A mudança de cenário traz consigo um contexto de aprendizagem peculiar e deliciosamente desafiador, com possibilidades múltiplas. O ensino personalizado exige que o professor desenvolva...

A aprendizagem de línguas têm sua função sendo alterada segundo as necessidades educacionais que germinam com cada momento histórico. Diante de uma comunidade altamente letrada e tecnologizada, há a necessidade de se produzir e interpretar significados inovadores de qu...