ELT in Brazil

Stop hiding behind coursebooks. Start teaching authentic, responsive, and conversation-driven lessons.

The Challenge of Traditional Teaching

Tired of your lessons being dictated by a pre-written script? Do you feel like you’re just ‘delivering content’ instead of building a real connection? Can’t stand another lesson where students’ real questions are pushed aside for “the plan”?

It’s time for a change.

Traditional, materials-heavy teaching often leads to artificial lessons and students who feel unheard. You deserve a more flexible way to teach, and your students deserve a more authentic way to learn.

The Solution: The DOGME ELT Approach

This is your opportunity to learn a proven, “unplugged” methodology that will elevate your skills and boost your teaching career.

In this four-module course, you will learn how to:

• Facilitate dynamic, conversation-led lessons that are truly learner-centered.
• Move past generic materials and build engaging lessons from the language that emerges in the room.
• Confidently harness emergent language and turn spontaneous moments into powerful learning opportunities.
• Deliver responsive, student-centered lessons that keep your learners motivated and talking.

What You Will Learn:

Module 1: Theoretical underpinnings that support Dogme ELT
Dive into the theory and research that support this ‘teaching unplugged’ approach. Understand the pedagogical principles that empower you to teach effectively with minimal materials.

Module 2: How to teach a Dogme lesson – the ETRER Framework
Time for action. In this module, we will work on how to turn the research findings and methodological principles explored in the first module into actual classroom practice.

Module 3: How to deal with emergent language
Discover how to effectively identify, respond to, and build upon the language that naturally emerges from your students, turning spontaneous moments into powerful learning opportunities.

Module 4: What does a Dogme course look like?
In this final module, we will explore a course design strategy to turn the ‘chaos’ of Dogme into a coherent, assessed, valid, and reliable course.

Why take this course?

This course isn’t about giving you more worksheets. It’s about empowering you to become a true facilitator and a genuinely responsive teacher.

By the end, you will have the skills to:

• Charge higher rates for specialized, conversation-focused teaching.
• Attract dedicated students who are serious about achieving real fluency.
• Teach based on proven principles of Second Language Acquisition.
• Feel confident and liberated knowing you can teach a great lesson anytime, anywhere, with no prep.
• Bury the rigid lesson plan.

Here’s what teachers who took the course had to say:

More than just introducing Dogme ELT, Bruno fills this course with important, research-based facts about how people learn languages. So, even if we, as teachers, move away from Dogme for any reason, we are left with game-changing information that can guide our practice. What’s more, Bruno has an amazing way of making complex topics easy to understand. The lessons flow smoothly, even when the content is dense. I recommend every course he offers.

The fact that the course was largely grounded in real classroom experiences made it truly worth the time and effort, especially for teachers engaged in continuous professional development.

The course is ideal for teachers who want to understand and develop flexibility in English language teaching, rather than strictly following a fixed curriculum.

Personally, I felt that I already had the necessary skills and experience to make Dogme ELT meaningful in my practice. However, listening to the varied experiences of the other participants and the speaker himself gave me greater confidence and a more positive outlook on applying it.

Are you ready to teach unplugged?

Enroll now and let’s get to it!

Live sessions on February 21st, 28th, and March 7th, 14th (Saturdays) from 10h to 11h (GMT-3)

All sessions will be recorded and available for 30 days.

We will also provide some suggested reading and curated videos to be explored prior to or after the live sessions.

Course Fee: 3x R$113,33 (R$340 total) – Get in touch for payment in other currencies!