Lindita Selaci's Blog

 Foreign language instruction should begin in kindergarten. It is known that adults have more difficulties in learning a second language than children. Below I will give a list with some reasons.   1.       1. This happens because every kid is born with the ability to learn the sounds of any language. That is why children learn the mother tongue without any difficulties and become fluent speakers in it. So, if we want our kids to learn a second language, it is the best thing to introduce it in the first year of life.   2.        2. Children develop an “ear” for languages. So they will have better pronunciation and fluency later in life.   3.       3. Children who learn a second language early in life have a huge head start both cognitively and linguistically. This will give them the chance to become bilingual.   4.        4.  Learning a second language in kindergarten i...

  Some books to better learn English vocabulary, grammar, idioms and phrasal verbs.   Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well J I know that the end of this semester has found us full of assignments and projects and that we are all stressed about our finals, but today I want to share with you some books that I have found useful (and the best) for your future students. The books that I will mention below have everything your students need to improve their English vocabulary and grammar. You can suggest them to work with them during the summer holidays, so they will not stop learning English for three months. The first books are “Grammar in Use” (There are three books elementary, intermediate and advance). You can give your students the one according to their English level. The second books are “English vocabulary in Use” (There are also three books according to the English level of your students.) The third one is “Idioms in Use” (I highly recommend this one fo...

  Some problems to deal with during teaching Every teacher has to deal with different problems in the classroom. I would name these problems “Classroom challenges”. Every teacher should have the courage to overcome all these challenges in the best way. Below I will mention and explain some of these challenges faced by the teachers nowadays. 1.        Lack of time for planning Teachers nowadays have to handle multiple roles in the classroom. They have to update the subject to new demands, to correct materials, to manage fields trips as well as bringing in new create approaches to meet the present educational trends.   All these things mentioned above add a lot of pressure and the lack of time doubles it. 2.        Balancing diverse learning needs In every classroom the type of students will be different and they will have diverse learning needs. It is a serious challenge to satisfy all of them in the same ...

Hello everyone :)  I hope you are doing well. 😃😃 Today I want to share with you some very interesting and useful technology tools for teaching grammar.  Lately, I have been working on a project about teaching grammar and I have searched about some ways and tools that can help us to make our lessons more interesting and fun for our pupils or students. As we already know, teaching grammar isn't difficult bur for our students or pupils it is difficult and sometimes it gets boring when you use the same method every single time you have to explain a new grammar. That's why I decided to share and give you some technology tools to teach grammar ( but not only grammar, you can use them for other skills, too) better. 1) Grammar Mind Maps Grammar mind maps can make your grammar lessons more visual. The goal of grammar mind maps is to appeal to both the left and right sides of your brain and hopefully thus enable students to learn concepts more successfully. The website GrammarMindMap...