Owlcast 2 - with Venie Gaki

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