From Explorer to Teacher: The ACA Teacher Training Program
As we close out another week of lessons for the ACA Explorers, I am want to think about what the future holds. The coming week is clear enough:…
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La Metodologia de ACA: Como enseñamos de manera diferente?
Aca en ACA, no enseñamos como ustedes a lo mejor aprendĂan en el colegio. Obvio, como ustedes están aquĂ con nosotros buscando a mejorar su inglĂ©s, esta metodologĂa…
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Motivating Students with Cumulative Exams and Cumulative Learning
We've mentioned before the Testing Effect - that its more efficient/effective to use your study time testing yourself rather than performing simple review. And that works great with flash…
Read articleThe ACA Explorers Musical Repetoire
Here at ACA, we have grown and developed so much throughout the past two years. Two years ago, I wasn't part of ACA. I was studying at the…
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La E Epentética: Mejora Tu Inglés Quitando Este Mal Hábito
Cuál es el error más comĂşn con los hispanohablantes cuando intentan hablar inglĂ©s? En este post, te explico un poco de la lingĂĽĂstica española, por quĂ© se causa…
Read articleThe Exploratorium: What We Need
We're moving into our new place and we have this great room with big shelves that we are going to make the Exploratorium! The idea is to have…
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Wednesday Project 2: Vocals, Sound Waves, Paper Squawker
Today is Wednesday which means the special Explorers-only class in our new house, the Exploratorium! Wednesday Project: Vowels Lesson.pdf Michael helped Sophie get caught up with last week's…
Read articleMusic: A Great Tool for Language Acquisition and Memory
Music is a great tool for learning! Here at ACA Explorers, we use music so much to help us teach English. We love using songs as tools for…
Read articleP and B Minimal Pair Exercise
This week, we want to introduce the P and B minimal pair exercise as we did with T and D last week. We will go over the T…
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