Cuisenaire Rods for Language Teaching, Part 1
Cuisenaire Rods for Language Teaching, Part 1 After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided to write […]
Book Review: English from Afar
Author: Bruce PatersonPublished by MatadorISBN: 9781789013 566 Review by Steve Hirschhorn English from Afar is an odd ball! It has around 150 pages divided into 2 parts having 35 Chapters […]
Communicative Language Testing
by Steve Hirschhorn Testing Language Language tests exist for several main purposes, some of these are: for placement into a language course, to assess the suitability of job candidates, to […]
Punctuation without Tears
Author: Dominic SelwoodPublished by Corax ISBN: 978-0-9926332-9-5Review by Steve Hirschhorn Perhaps James Joyce might have read this little book and saved us all the trouble of reading and rereading the […]
Why Use the IPA in Class
By Steve Hirschhorn The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the result of work by 19th and early 20th century phoneticians such as Henry Sweet, Otto Jesperson and later Daniel Jones […]
Cuisenaire Rods in Language Learning – Part 2
by Steve Hirschhorn A rod by any other name… Figure 1 Two boxes of Cuisenaire Rods, the top one a new set and the other, an original from 1981! The […]
Book Review: Her Own Worst Enemy
A serious Comedy about Choosing a Career Author: Alice Savage Published by Alphabet Publishing ISBN: 97819492034 Review by Steve Hirschhorn ‘Her Own Worst Enemy’ is one of a series of original […]
Mobile Learning ‘Book Review’
By Shaun Wilden Mobile Learning Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-420039-4 This slim volume of around 100 pages is all about helping teachers to come to terms with and exploit mobile […]
Impress in English
Presentation skills for Non-native Speakers Matterhorn Languages Susanne Lewis ISBN 9781977034779 Review for EFL Magazine by Steve Hirschhorn It seems to me that public speaking and associated skills are becoming […]
How Vocabulary is Learned
Webb, S. & Nation, P. Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-440355-9 Review for EFL Magazine by Steve Hirschhorn, January 2018 How Vocabulary is Learned is divided into 10 key chapters which […]