What Does It Mean to Be an Aviation English Teacher?
What Does It Mean to be an Aviation English Teacher? For many, the world of aviation has a mystical element; an elevated status born…
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Phil Wade Interviews: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat
Phil Wade Interviews: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat is an independent Business English Trainer with a background in finance. Through her business English…
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Vocabulary Instruction through the Use of Pictures
Vocabulary Instruction through the Use of Pictures Introduction PWIM, or Picture-Word Inductive Model (Calhoun, 1999) is a strategy that uses pictures as a starting…
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Covert Syllabus: What Else Do We Learn From Textbooks?
Covert Syllabus: What Else Do We Learn from Textbooks? A chilling ice-breaker It is the beginning of a new term and we start to…
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A Life in the Day
A Life in the Day I have two young children and my wife works in the restaurant business so my day starts early, usually…
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Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course
Reflections on My Experience of the CELTA Course Why did I complete a CELTA course? Having decided to stop working as an assistant head…
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Cultural Capital: Experience as a Classroom Resource
Experience as a Classroom Resource Amidst all the uncertainties in the world of education, there is, what John Dewey calls, ‘one permanent frame of…
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Sailing the Sea of CTRL C + V
Sailing the Sea of CTRL C + V By now, I’m sure we’ve all seen the Melania Trump speech that plagiarized Michelle Obama. Finally,…
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Teaching though Drama – Gobbledegook
Drama in the Classroom – Gobbledegook We’re all talking gobbledegook, or nonsense, at times, even though we think everyone understands us so well! When…
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Monster Eyes – Using The Power of Modelling
Monster Eyes – Using the Power of Modelling My daughter was determined to wear her monster beanie to school. She wouldn’t let me help…
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