Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new … Continue r… - 9 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 11:22am -
Reducing Attrition In Urban Schools ‘By Listening To Our Teachers’ is the last post in my Education Week Teacher three-part series on teacher attrition in high-poverty schools. Today, Liam Goldrick and David Orphal are contributing responses, and… - 13 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 7:52am -
Dean Shareski and I just had a video conversation for a class he’s teaching. The topic was “All About Curation.” I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About Curation. - 18 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 2:57am -
The Washington Post has just republished a post I wrote last month on SEL. Here on my blog, I had titled it Let Them Eat Character. Their title is “The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning.” Here’s an excerpt I had … Continue reading → - 20 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 12:16am -
It’s that time — we all lose an hour’s sleep tonight. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Daylight Savings Time. - 22 hours ago, 8 Mar 14, 11:06pm -
There are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.” You can see others at A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics and by… - 1 day ago, 8 Mar 14, 2:25pm -
Here are two new additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet: 5 Fascinating Graphs That Show How We Use the Internet is from TIME. 25 years of the World Wide Web – An infographic by the team … Continue reading → - 1 day ago, 8 Mar 14, 2:17pm -
I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: 10 ways to use tongue twisters in your class! … Continue reading → - 1 day ago, 8 Mar 14, 2:11pm -
Daylight Saving Time begins in about nine hours from now on the east coast of North America. If you're looking for some quick lessons about Daylight Saving Time to share with your students, take a look at the videos below. These are the types of vide… - 14 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 7:01am -
Doing my best "Ellen impersonation."Good evening from Maine where I'm home after a great week in North Carolina for the NCTIES 2014 conference. Thank you to everyone that came to one of my workshops or presentations this week. And an extra big thank… - 14 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 6:27am -
I've been thinking about comic strip creation tools quite a bit lately so I decided to share a handful of ideas for teaching with comics and the online tools that students can use to create them.1. Character Analysis: Have your students choose a favo… - 14 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 6:10am -
One of the lesser-known features of Google Drive is the collaborative aspect of Drawings. Drawings in Google Drive allows you to collaboratively create drawings from scratch and or alter images that you upload to Drawings. By uploading an image you c… - 2 days ago, 8 Mar 14, 7:45am -
This week at NCTIES 2014 I've learned as much I've shared. One of the highlights for me was seeing teachers combine the use of multiple apps to create one finished product. One of the combinations that I stumbled upon this week was using Tellagami cr… - 2 days ago, 8 Mar 14, 3:57am -
Earlier today at NCTIES 2014 I shared an entirely new version of my popular Best of the Web presentation. In this version I shared only tools that are new-to-me since last year's NCTIES conference and or have released significant enhancements in the… - 3 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 7:30am -
The online programming education service Tynker has released an iPad app for students. The Tynker iPad app features stories that students animate by completing a series of programming challenges. The programming happens by organizing a series of bloc… - 3 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 11:42pm -
One of the fun things that we did earlier in my NCTIES workshop about Google Maps and Earth was to play a couple of rounds of GeoGuessr. GeoGuessr shows you a Google Street View image and a clue to try to guess where in the world the imagery was capt… - 3 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 2:31pm -
Earlier today in my NCTIES workshop about creating media with mobile apps we talked about having students create comics to tell a story. Two of the apps that we looked at for that purpose were Animation Desk and ABCYa Animate. Unlike apps that are de… - 3 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 2:17pm -
Back in the old days, when people wrote letters to each other, there was a distinct difference between formal and informal written English. Nowadays, people tend to use email rather than writing letters and the difference between the two styles hav… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 8:51pm -
One of the challenges to teaching intermediate to advanced level classes is encouraging students to start using the vocabulary they've been learning. In other words, students understand the vocabulary, but they don't necessarily use it. This lesson p… - 4 days ago, 5 Mar 14, 10:12pm -
Spring arrives on March 22. It might still seem like winter to many, but spring is just around the corner. Learn the different months and seasons, as well as which time words to use with each. For example, we say:My birthday is in April. BUT My b… - 6 days ago, 3 Mar 14, 11:30pm -
In the other room. Because it costs too much. We went to the show, and we had dinner, then we had a drink at a bar.Each of the sentences has a mistake. The first sentence is a sentence fragment. The second needs another clause to make a complete… - 9 days ago, 28 Feb 14, 10:17pm -
Practice conversations give you the chance to first practice a conversation about a certain topic. Once you've done this, you can improve your English by having related conversations with other students or friends. Here are some helpful dialogue reso… - 11 days ago, 26 Feb 14, 10:29pm -
Collocations are words that go together with specific verbs or other words. Here are some examples:Let's take a break. She made the bed. He does the housework on Saturdays. I took a shower this morning.These collections of combinations focus o… - 13 days ago, 24 Feb 14, 6:14pm -
One saying that I think is true is:A picture is worth a thousand words.I'd say this is certainly true. That's why I'm a big fan of using pictures of tense use to help explain usage. Here's an example with one use of the present perfect:Here a… - 16 days ago, 21 Feb 14, 8:51pm -
Reading can improve your English in a variety of way. You can certainly learn a lot of new vocabulary through reading, as well as improve your fluency, but you can also use these suggested exercises:Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversation SkillsR… - 18 days ago, 19 Feb 14, 6:32pm -
Asking English learners to use quotes as a basis for discussion is a great way to encourage students to explore their own preconceived ideas and expectations while improving conversational skills. Through the process of trying to describe their inter… - 20 days ago, 17 Feb 14, 8:29pm -
When talking with Drew Badger, it is soon obvious just how knowledgeable he is about marketing. He has built a successful online course that solves a big problem for English learners: becoming conversationally fluent. He also has a very successful Yo… - 38 days ago, 30 Jan 14, 9:53pm -
First of all, Happy (belated) New Year to all my wonderful readers! I receive many emails from fellow teachers each day, and love hearing about your situation, what you want to achieve, and your successes. Keep the emails coming! 2013 was a great yea… - 51 days ago, 17 Jan 14, 10:55pm -
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward. One of my students recently passed her IELTS exam on the first attempt. When she first came to me, sh… - 89 days ago, 11 Dec 13, 12:31am -
I’ve mentioned many times how important it is to have an email list if you teach online or have a website. But, what if you don’t teach online? Well, if you currently teach in a traditional setting, you should seriously consider getting in on the… - 12 Nov 13, 7:07am -
We love to feature people who are making a mark in the online world, and today I have another guest vlog from Mau Buchler. Mau recently launched his unique English learning platform Tripppin. To give you a taste of what this is like, take a look at t… - 31 Oct 13, 12:06am -
Today we welcome our second guest poster to the blog: Jason R Levine. Jason and I have been collaborating on a few things recently, and I really wanted him to share his knowledge of online teaching here at TeachingESLOnline. So, below you’ll find a… - 10 Oct 13, 7:44am -
One piece of advice that I give to teachers starting out in this online world of teaching is to create true connections with English learners, students, and fellow teachers. My approach to reaching out and connecting with others online has changed dr… - 1 Oct 13, 10:54am -
I love helping teachers create their own online platform. There are so many ideas and creative elements that we as teachers want to showcase, and building a site using WordPress (WordPress.org not WordPress.com) allows anyone to realize those ambitio… - 13 Sep 13, 10:33am -
Hands down, the number one question that I get asked from fellow online teachers is, “How do I find more students?” I have a big interest in all things marketing, so thinking about the different strategies that can be implemented to get students… - 2 Sep 13, 5:08am -
Just writing the word ELEVENSES makes me feel peckish. It has a lovely Pooh Bear quality to it, doesn’t it, redolent of hot buttered teacakes and steaming mugs of tea. But anyway, I digress. In case you’re wondering what on earth I’m on about t… - 61 days ago, 8 Jan 14, 7:41am -
Here’s only the second guest post on this particular blog. This time, it’s a post by a wonderful teacher I’ve been lucky enough to meet via the MA TESOL I work on at University of Westminster. Mumtaz Ayub has been teaching for the past 13 yea… - 27 Nov 13, 1:20am -
In 2008, a devastating earthquake measuring around 8 on the Richter scale hit the Chinese province of Sichuan, killing over 70,000 people. Despite their initially sterling work in responding swiftly to the disaster, the government soon started to com… - 6 Nov 13, 11:45pm -
In the two previous posts in this little mini-series, I have talked firstly about how I might tackle any given piece of vocabulary-based / lexical self-study material that you bring into class in terms of what I’d do, say, ask and write whilst chec… - 6 Nov 13, 8:40pm -
In the first part of this post, I explored some of the things that you can do as teacher – both in terms of preparation / planning and in terms of actual classroom practice – to help to take lexical self-study material off the page and to bring i… - 26 Oct 13, 4:41am -
This post is essentially a response to a request by one the blog’s readers, Patrick Gallagher, who emailed me recently and asked for ideas on using material that’s essentially written for self-study in the classroom. Now, initially I was struck b… - 24 Oct 13, 10:22pm -
It’s been way too long since I managed to post anything here. The last few weeks have come and gone in a bit of a blur: new writing projects, a new term at work, a plenary at the wonderful Poland IATEFL conference and so on. Anyway, yesterday my co… - 12 Oct 13, 6:04am -
Pronunciation is quite possibly the most neglected area of language teaching. In many of the classes I’ve observed over the years, I’ve seen little or no attempt to work on pronunciation and where it IS focused on it’s often instinctive attempt… - 20 Jul 13, 5:06am -
This post follows on from the one I bashed out last week considering the influence of advertising on speech, and the way in which this can sometimes make life hard for even the most fluent of non-natives. It also follows on from conversations and tho… - 6 Jul 13, 9:09pm -
As promised, blogging resumes shortly… but in a new site and with a new format. You can find the new blog here: it’s called The (De-) Fossilization Diaries, and charts the attempts I’m making to improve my faltering Spanish. Hope to see you the… - 23 Aug 13, 5:31pm -
So this is it, folks: I’m closing down the blog for the summer… and for good. After 3 years, 150 posts, nearly 7000 comments, and innumerable hits, visits, views, however you want to describe and count them, plus one e-book spin-off (but no sign… - 9 Jun 13, 3:00pm -
A teacher educator in Norway reports on how she has used ideas from my book How to Teach Vocabulary (2002) on an in-service course for local primary and lower secondary school teachers. Mona Flognfeldt writes: ‘I have shared with my students a lot… - 2 Jun 13, 3:00pm -
A couple of weeks ago the University of Barcelona hosted a week-long course on Gesture and SLA, run by Dr Marianne Gullberg, Professor of Psycholinguistics at Lund University in Sweden. Marianne has to be one of the leading experts on gesture and lan… - 26 May 13, 3:00pm -
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Wallace Stevens, ‘Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird’. It’s spring and the male blackbirds are in full throat. I wa… - 19 May 13, 3:00pm -
A recent ELT Chat on using corpora suggested that what might be helpful for teachers coming to online corpora (such as COCA- the Corpus of Contemporary American English) for the first time would be some kind of screencast, demonstrating some of the m… - 12 May 13, 3:00pm -
What you do need to know in order to be able to teach? The question concerns not only teachers, but also teacher educators and methodology writers, since the way we answer it impacts on the design of training programs and their related materials. Do… - 5 May 13, 3:00pm -
This was written by a young American woman, visiting Europe for the first time, and speaking the German she had learned at school. It describes an experience many second language speakers will attest to: the turning point – that moment when suddenl… - 28 Apr 13, 3:00pm -
Three excellent presentations at IATEFL this year, each of which referenced Dogme, got me wondering. The first, Conversation-driven or dialogic methodology? ELT Classroom talk, was given by Dr Phil Chappell, from Macquarie University in NSW. Phil sta… - 21 Apr 13, 3:00pm -
Today’s question for the Q: Skills for Success authors: How can I help students that have a hard time learning the language (despite their effort)? Charl Norloff responds. Do you have a question about teaching English for Academic Purposes that …… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 9:34pm -
Marie Delaney is a teacher, trainer, educational psychotherapist, and author of ‘Teaching the Unteachable’ (Worth). She will be hosting a webinar entitled “Teaching Students with attention, concentration and hyperactivity difficulties” on 11… - 4 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 12:52am -
Ian Brookes is a freelance writer and editor based in Scotland. He has edited a number of dictionaries and has written books about spelling, writing, and punctuation. In this post, he looks at the presence of silent letters in English … Continue re… - 5 days ago, 5 Mar 14, 2:12am -
Charles Vilina and Kathleen Kampa, authors of the new Young Learners series, Oxford Discover, share teaching ideas on an important 21st Century skill: creativity. Creativity is intelligence having fun.” Albert Einstein We’re very happy to be shar… - 6 days ago, 4 Mar 14, 1:34am -
Around the world, young people have waited longer and longer to get married. There are many reasons, such as careers, personal goals, and a fear of divorce. Many people also now see marriage as the last step in becoming an adult, whereas previous gen… - 10 days ago, 27 Feb 14, 9:03pm -
What makes teens and twenty-somethings happy? According to a survey, spending time with family made people in this age group the most happy. Time with friends came in second place, and time with a boyfriend or girlfriend came in third place. Almost n… - 12 days ago, 26 Feb 14, 6:54am -
Men make more housework for women. He may mow the lawn, shovel snow, or fix things around the house. However, he still adds seven hours per week to the load of chores. The information comes from recent research between 1996 and 2005. During this peri… - 15 days ago, 23 Feb 14, 7:31am -
Who do you think speaks more, men or women? Many people believe that women are more talkative. There are many jokes about how much, and what, women talk about. But new research which may be surprising shows that both men and women speak more or less… - 29 days ago, 9 Feb 14, 8:02am -
If you search for gender selection on Google, there are more than 500,000 hits. Some sites have simple calendars to follow a woman's cycle, and others have star charts. There are even some websites that sell unusualand expensive services to help choo… - 32 days ago, 5 Feb 14, 7:22pm -
Answer the questions below. Try to add more information.Do you like books? How often do you read books?Do you like fiction or nonfiction books? Why?Do you have a favorite writer? Who is he/she?Do you often read magazines and newspapers on the Int… - 33 days ago, 4 Feb 14, 9:00am -
New Entry: 'FCE (First Certificate in English) Use of English Part Two- Brainstorming Games' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com. - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 9:51pm -
New Entry: 'FCE (First Certificate in English)- Open Cloze Card Games' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com. - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 9:49pm -
New Entry: 'How to teach FCE Use of English Part Two open cloze' has just been added to the Articles area of UsingEnglish.com. - 3 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 10:37am -
New Entry: 'Presentations- Connecting with the Audience' has just been added to the Lesson Plans area of UsingEnglish.com. - 5 days ago, 4 Mar 14, 7:58pm -
Today’s guest post comes from Jeffery Nelson, the creator of a great new blog called Living Bilingual. After you enjoy the article stop by and visit. ———- Language skills are hard to measure. There is an innate subjectivity in analyzing a l… - 13 Aug 13, 12:27pm -
Today I am excited to share another great guest post from a regular EDLL reader, Arabic expert and language lover Saqib Hussain. You can find out more about Saqib and about Arabic at Arabic Studio. For now, enjoy the post! ————- OK, so… - 26 Jul 13, 5:06am -
I have been an admirer of Jana Fadness for a number of years now and so was excited to be able to interview her a few weeks back. Her blog, Adventures of the Directionally Challenged shares here experiences as a language learner, a traveler and a t… - 4 Jul 13, 5:11am -
Perhaps you are familiar with Tim Ferris’ “4 Hour” series of books. In today’s guest post, Allan Ngo of Money in Mandrin unpacks a few lessons he took away from The 4 Hour Chef. Enjoy! RIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!! Your alarm clock blares! POW… - 24 Jun 13, 11:16pm -
Today’s guest post is from Noel van Vliet, the writer behind SmartLanguageLearner.com. It was certainly a timely post for me as I’ve been struggling amidst part time jobs and being back in the states to stay connected with learning Turkish an… - 10 Jun 13, 8:20pm -
It’s not everyday that I get a postcard with a picture of an elephant trying to get on a double decker bus, but when I do, I like to share about it. The picture itself is so great – an apt metaphor for life as we know it. Much of what we do is fi… - 31 May 13, 5:11am -
My Middle School is using blogger (part of Google) as a platform for our students’ blogfolios. The blogfolio (term coined by Andrea Hernandez) is part blog and part digital portfolio. Students not only showcase their best work, but document thei… - 21 days ago, 17 Feb 14, 12:24am -
Silvana Meneghini and I work as Academic Technology Coordinators at Graded, the American School of São Paulo. ” A flashlight in the fog of technology integration“, initially the title of a conference workshop proposal, quickly developed into t… - 22 days ago, 15 Feb 14, 9:06pm -
I am continuing to document using Google Glass at Schools. What are some ways we can use Google Glass in schools to document learning, reflections, practices and just life at schools? I brainstormed a few scenarios, I wanted to try out: teacher plann… - 24 days ago, 14 Feb 14, 6:32am -
I have a new favorite designer tool : Canva Key Features: A simple new way to design. Easily turn your ideas into designs for Web and print. Search and drag simplicity. Search Canva’s integrated library of stock photographs, graphic elements an… - 27 days ago, 11 Feb 14, 5:25am -
The impact of the SELFIE on our culture has started to intrigue me. As I see my little granddaughter love looking at (and taking) pictures and videos of herself on the iPhone and iPad… I wonder what the long term impact will be. There are very few… - 28 days ago, 9 Feb 14, 11:35pm -
Google Glass Reflection: In the first few days, I made it a point to wear Google Glass all day at school (…well as much as the battery life permitted). My main point was to get used to the feel of them on my head, to increase my fluency. (Happy to… - 29 days ago, 9 Feb 14, 6:29am -
“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.” ― George Orwell, Why I Write I’ve been… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 7:16pm -
I’m presently enjoying life deep in the highlands of Guatemala. It’s why I haven’t been posting regularly and fanatically. All things at their own time and pace but I’ll be back in the new year – loud, clear, full of posts! I’m taking Spa… - 79 days ago, 21 Dec 13, 7:33am -
Over the years, spending time with thousands of new or budding teachers – I’ve thought and thought and thought about the major factors that make a “great teacher”. It’s not an easy thing to pin down, given that there are so many differen… - 11 Oct 13, 9:26pm -
I’ve been working on a new post this weekend, a reflection on my own development as a teacher and all the footprints that truly led me to where I am right now. Something for myself but which other teachers might find some truth therein. I’m not e… - 5 Oct 13, 6:51am -
This story comes from my time teaching at Bloor and Bay, 5th floor, N.E tower – Language Connections International. I was teaching new immigrants to Canada part of the day, foreign students the other half. Small classrooms with one wall all windows… - 22 Sep 13, 5:06am -
Last week, a journalist asked me a question in connection with the recent flurry of stories on changes in childhood obesity percentages in the period from 2001 to 2012. When I looked into it, what struck me was that a category defined as "BMI at or a… - 1 hour ago, 9 Mar 14, 7:16pm -
You would be wrong if you thought Language Log hadn't taken note of the beautician in Blackpool, UK, who unwisely ventured into the geopolitical realm with this tweet: You are also wrong if you think Language Log has decided what comment it could pos… - 1 day ago, 8 Mar 14, 7:51pm -
I was a guest yesterday on Radio Times ("What language says about who we are and where we live", 3/6/2014), and the host, Marty Moss-Coane, brought up the movie In a World, and Lake Bell's assertion that "There is a vocal plague going on that I call… - 1 day ago, 8 Mar 14, 11:20am -
Even though I've been reading that headline on my portal page for 3 days now and know what it's really supposed to be saying, I still can't read it the way they intended. The first sentence of the actual article: The World Health Organization says yo… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 10:11pm -
Michael Janda, "Gina Rinehart takes aim at Austalia's 'entitlement' mentality, points to Thatcher", 3/7/2014: Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart has attacked Australia's entitlement mentality and called on the nation's leaders to emulate former… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 9:38pm -
I was reading the Guardian yesterday and came across a short interview with the singer Sheryl Crow during which she responded to the question ‘what have you sacrificed for your art?’ with the answer “my love life. I think whatever you give your… - 25 days ago, 13 Feb 14, 3:31am -
I was very taken with Luke Meddings’ recent blogpost about the tensions between education and big business (amongst other things). He suggested that whereas we teach to reach students, to help students reach their potential, others see teaching as… - 83 days ago, 17 Dec 13, 1:05am -
Someone (let’s call him Marc Prensky!) once came up with a rather neat description of the difference between some kids and some older people. The former, he suggested, were digital natives who grew up with technology all around them as a given –… - 23 Nov 13, 4:01am -
As October faded into November I found myself giving talks at the fabulous TELLSI conference in Mashad, Iran, immediately followed by a stint at the IGA conference (Instituto Guatamalteco-Americano) in Guatemala City, and then MEXTESOL in Queretero,… - 19 Nov 13, 1:44am -
I wonder if you have seen the Roman Polanksi movie The Ghostwriter, or read the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris that it is based on. The premise of the film and novel is that the central character is hired to ‘ghost’ the autobiography of a past… - 30 Sep 13, 6:01am -
Something big is happening in the small country of Uruguay (with a population of approximately 3.5 million, it comes in at number 134 in comparison with other countries – remember, China has 1.3 billion inhabitants!) But Uruguay has always ‘punch… - 23 Aug 13, 9:27pm -
Photo by @aclil2climb via eltpicsBinomials are two word expressions (strong collocations) such as "dead or alive", "give and take", "law and order". In this activity inspired by a short film activity on FilmEnglish, students become more aware of bin… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 6:37pm -
Photo by Tzvi MellerAs much as it seems counter-intuitive, teaching new vocabulary in semantic sets (e.g. jobs: doctor, teacher, lawyer etc. or colours: red, blue, yellow etc.) does not facilitate learning. As far back as in the 1990s, research show… - 6 days ago, 3 Mar 14, 6:44pm -
As the year draws to a close it’s time for various top 10, 20 etc lists. I am going to limit myself to 3 and share the web tools that have undoubtedly been my favourite this year. Three different tools - three different uses.Lyricstraining – List… - 8 days ago, 1 Mar 14, 10:12pm -
Traditional quiz for your first lesson in 2014By lasanta.com.ec via Flickr[CC BY 2.0]For some reason I had a hard time coming up with news items for this year's quiz. Not that the year was uneventful but somehow there were no sex scandals, jumps fro… - 8 days ago, 1 Mar 14, 10:04pm -
Images by Tim Evanson, Gene Hunt& Alex Alishevskikh via FlickrAs usual, as a follow up to the traditional end-of-year news quiz, here are language-focused activities aimed at reviewing and consolidating lexis from quiz. If you haven't seen the n… - 8 days ago, 1 Mar 14, 10:01pm -
By @eannegrenoble | eltpics on FlickrIn the middle of the market where I go for my weekly vegetable shopping there is a stall where I buy olives. The owners of the stall are a husband and wife team who know I am an English teacher. The other day th… - 52 days ago, 16 Jan 14, 7:13pm -
In our recent series of interviews with adaptive learning powerhouse, Knewton, a number of interesting points were raised by our readers, which we thought were worth exploring further. So, we compiled some of the more challenging questions and David… - 2 days ago, 7 Mar 14, 7:08pm -
Following on from our previous posts on Pearson's Catalyst incubator and Kaplan's joint initiative with TechStars, this week we're taking a look at another publisher-turned-accelerator sponsor. - 3 days ago, 6 Mar 14, 5:57pm -
In this the final part, I will give you my recommendation for how to make this vital decision. Then, if you dare, I’ll get a bit more technical and explain some of the details I skipped over in the first two posts. - 10 days ago, 27 Feb 14, 8:48pm -
Guest post by ELT publisher Janet Aitchison, in response to Steve Elsworth's post, The monetary value of ELT authors.Not all publishers think there is no place for writers in the digital future. The writers’ role and the means of remuneration wi… - 12 days ago, 25 Feb 14, 6:00pm -
The second of a two-part series, by Scott ThornburyTextbooks, generally speaking, don’t score high on the originality stakes. And for good reason. - 17 days ago, 20 Feb 14, 8:47pm -
In this honest, insightful and helpful guest post Phil Wade shares his experiences of taking an iPad into the classroom ... - 18 days ago, 19 Feb 14, 6:00pm -
To deny that there is a conflict in contemporary ELT, particularly but not exclusively in the ‘importing’ of new techniques associated ... Continue reading - 9 days ago, 28 Feb 14, 8:00pm -
I was kindly invited to submit a lesson idea for the Disabled Access Friendly Campaign in April 2013. Many ... Continue reading - 54 days ago, 14 Jan 14, 7:21pm -
1. Is it the role of language teachers to address social issues in the classroom? Why (not)? 2. If languages ... Continue reading - 59 days ago, 9 Jan 14, 10:33pm -
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity” (George Bernard Shaw in the play The Doctor’s Dilemma) Historically more commonly (documented) ... Continue reading - 25 Nov 13, 12:45am -
Let’s start this by saying I don’t agree with the distinction people make sometimes between teacher training, teacher development, and ... Continue reading - 7 Sep 13, 1:40am -
Talk given as part of the British Council Seminars (London, 31 April, 2013). source of recordings and an abstract can ... Continue reading - 14 Jul 13, 4:00pm -
I would like to highlight an upcoming online event next weekend which may be of interest to my readers, especially those of you who are bloggers, or are interested in becoming bloggers. Below is an extract from the introduction to the session in… - 18 hours ago, 9 Mar 14, 2:47am -
Sunday February16th marked the final day of the exciting five-week EVO Crafting the ePerfect Textbook session. It has been a truly exhilarating and educational experience, connecting with over 500 teachers from around the globe. I was helping the… - 15 days ago, 22 Feb 14, 7:32pm -
This weekend Friday 7th February to Sunday 9th February promises to be an exciting couple of days for educators around the world.It is the Connecting Online's 2014 E-conference, which is free to attend. It is all hosted on the WizIq platform. Speak… - 31 days ago, 7 Feb 14, 12:58am -
You can now register for free to participate in this year's Electronic Village Online sessions! The registration period is from January 6th - 12th. Week one kicks off on Monday January 13th. Each session lasts 5 weeks until February 16th. This will… - 58 days ago, 10 Jan 14, 9:36pm -
2013 will go down in my personal history as a year of being preoccupied with an event from the past. At times this year, I could think of nothing else, and it threatened to overshadow any of the joys that 2013 actually managed to bring. I am ha… - 68 days ago, 1 Jan 14, 2:26am -
......years ago I started blogging, and it was an event that changed my life in quite a dramatic way. Janet's Abruzzo Edublog is now officially over five years old and I would like to say what a joy it has been to blog and to share my ideas, lesson… - 71 days ago, 28 Dec 13, 7:48pm -
Dogme ELT has been around (in the sense of having a name and a movement of people who recognize it as a legitimate and defined approach to teaching languages) for the best part of 15 years at this point of writing; what this means is there are a sign… - 49 days ago, 19 Jan 14, 10:32pm -
Usually when (it) is so simple we say, “Oh, I know that! It is quite simple. everyone knows that.”But if we do not find its value, it means nothing. It is the same as not knowing. - Shunryu Suzuki in “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” - I am not s… - 9 Oct 13, 6:22pm -
Movement is the destruction of balance. I don’t know who I originally heard this from, but it was in the context of running theory. The idea is that in order for a physical body to move in any direction, it cannot be in a position of balance. That… - 22 Jul 13, 2:34am -
A 20-minute exploration of how conventional treatment of the”rules” for using the passive voice (as, for example, presented in coursebooks or standard student grammar books) misses the chance to introduce learners to a simpler, more elegant and m… - 17 Jun 13, 5:00am -
A couple of days ago I taught a short (35 minute) lesson to the teaching practice students on the CELTA course we are running in Hamburg at the moment. I had used a personal story to introduce the structure “used to” and, while setting up some… - 14 Jun 13, 3:50am -
