5 ways to use social media to teach English

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Social media is everywhere – most of us use it, quite a lot of our time! We simply can’t escape it!

But, have you ever thought of taking advantage of what social media offers in your teaching? Can using social media in class help with your students’ learning? Have you ever considered whether it could even help you with your own professional development, and, if so, how?

In his latest vlog for Pavilion ELT, Rubens Heredia shares ideas of how you can make lessons more interesting and even keep developing your teaching skills with a healthy dose of social media –relevant for any teacher who is working live online, dealing with face-to-face lessons (and perhaps social distancing), or doing a mix of the two in hybrid teaching.

 

Useful links

Bauducco, D. (2020). ‘An A–Z of critical thinking activities’. Pavilion ELT vlog. Shoreham-by-Sea: Pavilion Publishing and Media.

Heredia, R. (2021). ‘5 tips to reduce lesson preparation time’. Pavilion ELT vlog. Shoreham-by-Sea: Pavilion Publishing and Media.

Hughes, J. (2014). ‘Steps to critical thinking’ English Teaching professional 91.

Tulk, S. (2021). ‘The power of community in ELT’. Modern English Teacher 30 3.

 

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Rubens Heredia
Rubens Heredia
Rubens Heredia has been a vlogger for Pavilion ELT since December 2019. His vlog posts draw upon his experiences as a teacher and teacher trainer, as well as the ones as a student of Catalan and they provide a huge variety of teaching tips and techniques to use in the classroom, in flipped learning and in live online classes. Rubens is currently working as a freelance CELTA trainer, based in Barcelona, and he is the co-founder of whatiselt.com, a website and social media platform dedicated to helping English teachers and teacher trainers with definitions of common ELT concepts as well as examples and tips on how to use them more effectively in lessons. He began his teaching career in Brazil, where he taught one-to-one lessons and groups of children, teens and adults. Rubens has been involved in teacher training and course design for the last eight years. He's also a frequent speaker at international conferences and you can catch more from him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @whatiselt.