Social Reform, ‘Woke’ and ELT
‘Woke’ activists have been telling us to ‘wake up’ for the past two years: Wake up to issues of discrimination concerning gender, sexual orientation…
Read MoreOpinion
Why Languages Don’t Need Grammar Rules
It is pointless to learn languages using grammar rules. Looking for a common denominator or a formula is a mathematical operation that makes no sense in languages.
Read More
The Great Brexit Balls Up for ELT
Across the UK, English schools are standing empty, and teachers are being made redundant in increasing numbers. Host families are genuinely worried about keeping…
Read More
Native Vs Non-Native: My Opinion and Experience
by Steven Nickodemski I had a nice, well-dressed 30 something stop by our language academy the other day, CV in hand asking to see…
Read More
The Gaming of the IELTS Test
by David Buckley For the last 20 years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of Chinese students taking the IELTS test…
Read More
What Generates the Global Desire to Learn and Speak English……?
By Peter Read As EFL teachers the world over, we are acutely aware that English is the world’s dominant language and is spoken by…
Read More
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority in a Second Language Classroom
A language learner/aspiring teacher’s view by Stefan Szocs As a second language learner, I spent 20 weeks in ELICOS classrooms in two different institutions…
Read More
What’s the Way Forward for Language Policy in Indonesia?
by Rasman Rasman Enacting language policies in Indonesia is no facile undertaking. The country’s remarkable language diversity complicates the effort of policymakers.There have been…
Read More
Starting a revolution in Korean ESL
by Allistair Elliott The great question I was once asked in an interview ‘how I could revolutionise the teaching of English in Korea’. Having…
Read More
The Essence and True Purpose of Education
by By Rooman Raza Qureshi – aka RRQ “Give me a fish and I’ll eat for a day, teach me to fish and I’ll…
Read More