Mathematics: it’s the language that counts
By Tony Grice Can you speak mathematics? Some linguists claim that mathematics has the design features of a language. Equations are the equivalent of…
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What We Lose When We Ban Students, Countries
Enduring Lessons from a Welcome Center by Walter Fernando Balser, Ed.D. In the summer of 1999, I emerged from graduate school as a young…
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Supporting in-sessional students in higher education
By Mark Lawrence Context The university where I work, Sheffield University, has a huge number of international students and we offer a lot of…
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Lifting a fourth-grade language learner
By Fred Gamble According to Pellino (2012, para. 1), “Students with English as a second language (ESL) constitute a significant percentage of the population…
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“Comma knowledge”: Some points about punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese,…
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The Wiki as a Collaborative Tool: why to use it, how to use it
By Rita Zeinstejer A wiki can be described as a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit, delete or…
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Sentence Structure with a Dash of Zombie
By Terry McLean As an English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher, I find that many students struggle with the use of sentence variety….
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Beyond the “Square Mile”
By Peter Read Teaching Modern Business English in a rapidly changing global market – the need to adopt a practical approach. Teaching Modern Business…
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Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language
by Richard S. Pinner 2016 Multilingual Matters Taking a position on the authenticity continuum Book review by Erzsébet Békés I came across the issue…
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Post Academy Life
By Troy Nahumko Open a job search for ESL job openings around the world at any time of the year and a sunny southern…
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