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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Cuisenaire Rods in Language Learning Classroom, Part 1
by Steve Hirschhorn After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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