9 Creative and Interactive Teaching Resources for ESL Online
Online teaching always seems to be lacking something. Regular exercises and textbooks are boring and mundane because they lack ’real language situations.’ Let’s make…
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Teaching English without a Book – EFL
Time to stop quoting sentence fragments from a book! Find out Teaching English without a book with these foolproof tips from a teaching legend….
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Teaching Strategies for Multi-Level ESL Classes
When I began my first position teaching English as a Second Language, I hadn’t anticipated some of the challenges I would face teaching multi-level…
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The Future of English Language Teaching is Liberal Arts
Our disrupted world is poised for more disruption. New technologies have already upended many industries and professions. English language teaching and education more generally…
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How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform for Your Purpose.
Today we talk about “How to Choose the Right Assessment Platform” Assessment is an integral albeit sometimes not very popular and very conservative part…
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Giving Teachers a Voice: Speak Out for Sustainability
Six years ago, the United Nations set out 17 ambitious sustainable development goals (SDGs) to be completed by 2030. With 169 targets covering education,…
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4 Resources to Teach the Four Skills Online
2020 was a year of profound reckoning for all teachers. Language teachers have been set the formidable task of teaching all of the four…
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Lessons Learned from My Hybrid Classes in 2020
In this article I outline the lessons I’ve learned from my hybrid classes in 2020.Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) is the correct term for what…
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Three Underutilised Aspects of Zoom
The internet abounds with stories of teachers moving their lessons online; they reflect on their experiences, and then they write about them. By this…
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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.
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