Daniel Costa

Currently working as a Senior Language Educator for Woospeak, where he has taught several languages for business companies worldwide. He holds a CELTA, a BET, a COLT, an MA in English Language Teaching with distinction and a BA in Philosophy with First Class Honours.

Painting with words

Daniel Costa advocates and describes using various tools to create bespoke images but warns of some of the inherent drawbacks.

Animal-assisted ELT

The article describes some of the educational benefits to learning alongside animals.

Blending meanings

Daniel Costa stresses the importance of raising learners’ awareness of how words are formed.

The matrix of time

The article looks at a useful tool for time management, where tasks are prioritised based on their degrees of urgency.

The (un)critical period

In a wide-ranging article, Daniel Costa reviews the literature on this topic and comes to the conclusion that for many reasons there is no one critical period for learning a language.