Simon Moran on the Franchisee Option for ELT Entrepreneurs
Today’s guest is Simon Moran. Simon is the owner of www.modernenglish.net, and has been a successful franchisor for nearly 20 years. I chat to…
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Christina Rebuffet on Pricing, Positioning, and Building Systems to Grow Your Business
In this podcast, I sit down with Christina Rebuffet. Christina talks about how she got started with making her own YouTube videos to now…
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Olly Richards on Starting, Scaling, and Marketing Your Company for Success
Today’s guest is Olly Richards. Olly and I talk about his background and how he got started in entrepreneurship. Olly also gives invaluable advice…
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A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT
Acronyms in ELT : What they mean and where and how they are used. Like any profession or field, the teaching of English has evolved…
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Three Classroom Activities to Promote Interactional Competence
Most EFL teachers are probably familiar with the stilted nature of the learner to learner conversational interaction. Low confidence, lack of vocabulary or grammar…
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Book Review: A Descriptive Grammar of English
The question of whether to teach grammar prescriptively or descriptively has been much debated in the ELT community. On the one hand, teaching a…
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5 Ways to Teach through Laughter
I cringed at what the teacher had done: laughed at a student. It’s fun sometimes to joke about students when they’re in on the…
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Cambridge University Press: Dedicated Teacher Award
Cambridge University Press, the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, has awarded its 2021 Dedicated Teacher Award to Annamma Lucy, a social studies…
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ColloCaid: Helping with Academic English Collocations
Teachers, editors, proof-readers, or indeed anyone who regularly reviews texts can confirm that many writers struggle when choosing word combinations which sound natural. In…
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12 Steps to Hiring a Teacher Who’s World-Class
Hiring a teacher is a big responsibility. But hiring someone you’ve never met in ‘real life’ and persuading them to fly halfway around the…
Time Tracking Software for Educational Institutions
By Lori Wade What is the most valuable thing you can spend in whatever you are involved? Time! Wisely using available time in your…
How to Teach IELTS Writing Online
Five years ago, I was teaching IELTS Writing for the British Council in Vietnam. I started to put my lessons online so that students…
The Great Brexit Balls Up for ELT
Across the UK, English schools are standing empty, and teachers are being made redundant in increasing numbers. Host families are genuinely worried about keeping…
Turn Your Love for Language into a Translation Career
Do you love the English language? Are you looking for a job that will allow you to indulge in that passion? If so, a…
Are “Super-Tutors” Reshaping EFL?
By: Jacob Williams Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of private tutors, both globally and the…
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How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform for Your Purpose.
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Plagiarism, simply put, is using the work of another and trying to pass it off as your own work by not giving due credit…
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Teacher Roles Before and After the Pandemic
Awareness about the roles played by ESL/ EFL teachers in the classroom is key to a high quality development of the class. One lesson…
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Giving Teachers a Voice: Speak Out for Sustainability
Six years ago, the United Nations set out 17 ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be completed by 2030. With 169 targets covering education,…
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Trends in EFL Teaching, 2021
With the vast changes in teaching and learning that have literally been forced upon educators since early 2020, we as language teachers must stay…
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7 More Favourite EFL Books
EFL Magazine is delighted to highlight 7 EFL Book suggestions which we hope may be useful to you all. A big EFL Magazine Thank…
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10 Websites to Teach English Online
10 Websites to Teach English Online Choosing great websites to Teach English Online, may not be as clear cut as you first thought. There…
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Why Languages Don’t Need Grammar Rules
It is pointless to learn languages using grammar rules. Looking for a common denominator or a formula is a mathematical operation that makes no sense in languages.
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A Moral Dilemma in My Teaching Career
THE MORAL QUESTION Would you put your own job in jeopardy to highlight the needs of your students? Yes? Read the question again. Even…
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Mobile technology is an almost inescapable aspect of our contemporary culture. It seems that with very few exceptions, most aspects of our lives can…
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10 Great Warmers and Fillers for EFL Teachers
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The EFL Magazine Guide: Ten TEFL Online Courses
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10 Pieces of Advice for Beginner Teachers
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Our Thoughts Have No Official Language
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The growth mindset in the classroom Luckily, there are a host of easy ways to slip in the growth mindset in the classroom.Any teacher…
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My Tailor Is Not So Rich: Salaries and Conditions of ELT Trainers In France This post represents something of a departure for EFL Magazine….
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Lessons Learned from My Hybrid Classes in 2020
In this article I outline the lessons I’ve learned from my hybrid classes in 2020.Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) is the correct term for what…
10 Great Warmers and Fillers for EFL Teachers
10 Great Warmers and Fillers for EFL Teachers The tips are listed below as Warmers and Fillers and we here at EFL Magazine are…
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10 Pieces of Advice for Beginner Teachers: Are you looking Advice for Beginner Teachers? EFL Magazine recently posed a challenge of writing ’10 pieces…
How to Write a Great IELTS Essay
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Online Teaching Feature
Automated Essay Evaluation for Faster Formative Feedback
By Nicholas Walker Many ESL teachers still consider automated essay scoring and feedback to be an impossible dream. But with recent advancements in automated…
Using Moodle to Manage Online Teaching
Using Moodle to Manage Online Teaching Moodle is a perfect platform to house paid and free courses. Teaching online differs from teaching face-to-face in…
Teaching Resources
How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform for Your Purpose.
Assessment is an integral albeit sometimes not very popular and very conservative part of language education. Until last year, some progressive teachers experimented with…
Giving Teachers a Voice: Speak Out for Sustainability
Six years ago, the United Nations set out 17 ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be completed by 2030. With 169 targets covering education,…
Book Review
Book Review: A Descriptive Grammar of English
The question of whether to teach grammar prescriptively or descriptively has been much debated in the ELT community. On the one hand, teaching a…
7 More Favourite EFL Books
EFL Magazine is delighted to highlight 7 EFL Book suggestions which we hope may be useful to you all. A big EFL Magazine Thank…
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How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform for Your Purpose.
Assessment is an integral albeit sometimes not very popular and very conservative part of language education. Until last year, some progressive teachers experimented with…
How to Write a Great IELTS Essay
How to Write a Great IELTS Essay – Tips from an ESL Teacher: As an ESL teacher, I have coached hundreds of students and…
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Assessment is an integral albeit sometimes not very popular and very conservative part of language education. Until last year, some progressive teachers experimented with…
Lessons Learned from My Hybrid Classes in 2020
In this article I outline the lessons I’ve learned from my hybrid classes in 2020.Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) is the correct term for what…
