Our First Common Language and How to Use It To Make a Lasting First Impression
Have you ever thought of yourself as being a human transmitter and receiver? Well, through evolution and especially through the need to survive, this…
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Zen and the Art of Language Presentations
To teach new language successfully, and in a way that students are interested in, it can often help to point to something beyond the…
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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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5 Steps to Designing Equitable Instruction
5 Steps to Designing Equitable Instruction: Applying Universal Design for Learning in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom Classrooms across the world are…
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Personalising Your Online Teaching
English language teachers around the world are quickly transitioning from f2f teaching formats to video platforms and online learning management systems. The COVID 19…
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Give Me Words and Let Me speak
By Shimmi Sharma As an English teacher, I have worked in a private school in Lahartara Varanasi, the holy city of India for ten…
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Don’t stare – start writing instead
by Elizabeth Bekes Cuenca, Ecuador Book review on The PhD Writing Handbook by Desmond Thomas Palgrave September 2016 The opening scene of Sally Potter’s…
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The Uberfication of Online ELT
by Rachel Boyce Learning with computers is nothing new… ………..as they have been used in language teaching since the 1980s, if not longer in…
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Recently: the Time Adverbial that trespasses Grammar to Reach out for Difference
By Maaouia Haj Mabrouk: ELT inspector Tunisia Introduction Among the adjunct adverbials1 that kept puzzling me as a teacher, then as a teacher trainer,…
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Book Review: Why NNESTs? by Erzsebet Bekes and Marcela Carrasco
Book Review: Why NNESTs? by Erzsebet Bekes and Marcela Carrasco Thanks to Silvana Richardson’s plenary talk at IATEFL 2016 conference in Birmingham, the issue…
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