Marjorie Rosenberg

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Marjorie Rosenberg has been teaching in Austria for over 40 years, working at tertiary level, with adults and with teachers. She has written several methodology books on learner preferences and materials in the area of business English. Marjorie is an NLP trainer and has used the techniques in the classroom as well as in teacher training courses.

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Encouraging learner-generated content

As an ELT trainer in adult education, I have found that giving my learners space to provide content has a number of advantages. It helps learners to stay engaged and provides motivation, as it is personal and gives them the opportunity to acquire and use language they need. Giving learners space to come up with ideas for using language often leads to creativity. In addition, frameworks to be filled with learner-generated content make use of different types of input and output by giving learners the chance to both speak and listen to others. As the bulk of the lesson...

A research project on learning styles and learner strategies

This article discusses the implications for teachers from a small-scale research project carried out at the language institute of the University of Graz, Austria, and was run in four general English classes of B1 level. The aim of the study was to determine if the strategies learners used was reflected in their primary learner preferences. At the beginning of the semester, learners were given a questionnaire to determine their preferred modes of learning. These were based on three different models which were also discussed in class. All together, 66 students took part, the majority being female (48) and from Austria...

Teacher wellbeing and techniques to achieve it

Marjorie Rosenberg describes ways of getting a good work-life balance along with ways of behaving in the classroom.