Inglés Programación Didáctica. Nueva edición febrero 2025
Foreword The very first edition of Inglés Programación Didáctica the author published with MAD was in February 2005. In those days, the legislation on which the syllabus in the book was based was the so-called LOCE. This Education Act would never be implemented as it was repealed by LOE in May 2006. The necessary changes […]
English pronunciation: teaching unfamiliar sounds and phonological patterns
English pronunciation: How do you go about teaching sounds and phonological patterns? Three of the topics included in PoppieS Foundation 1-2-3 have to do with Phonological Competence. We hope that the contents of this post give you ideas so that you can not only include a section in your topic essay dealing with how you [...]
LOTS & HOTS in our learning process to Mastery
LOTS & HOTS will lead us -and hence our students- to Mastery. This post was first published on 14th September 2015. The links were then updated in November 2020 and again, in October 2025, to ensure that everything is working and update whatever may be needed. Poppies Foundation 123-III-Teaching-Principles-Approaches deals with Methodology, teaching principles based [...]
How to approach text analysis in the “Oposiciones a Profesores de inglés”-Focus on Genre
When approaching text analysis, we can do so from 3 wide angles: Genre, Register & Language. GENRE is concerned with the social function of the text, i.e., its socio-cultural context. It therefore takes into account its structure and layout conventions. REGISTER is associated with a specific situation, i.e., the situational context in which the text –or […]