Gretchen Clark is currently an assistant professor of English at Kyoto Notre Dame University in Kyoto, Japan. She was awarded a Masters in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham. She has lived and taught English in various capacities in the Kansai region of Japan for over 20 years. Her research interests include ELT pedagogy, NeuroELT and how social justice and critical thinking operate within language teaching.
Interactional Competence – Three Classroom Activities Most EFL teachers are probably familiar with the stilted nature of the learner to learner conversational interaction. Low confidence, lack of vocabulary or grammar […]