Venie Gaki, is an English as a Second/Foreign Language teacher at ACS Athens, who joined the school 15 years ago. We are discussing:
- Teaching English as a Second Language
- How to achieve English language immersion in less than 3 years
- The zoning out and the cultural shock that foreign language students go through Translanguaging as a method to connect with the student
- Content-based approach to English language acquisition
- What's the difference between communicative and academic English
- Helping students through the stress, frustration and depression of learning a new language
- The idea of feeling at home while learning and using English at school
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