4 Ways to Decolonize Your English Classes
In today’s world, it’s hard to deny that the ability to speak English can offer students real professional and academic advantages. However, English education as an institution, has a dark […]
American, British, and Euro-English
Compared to other Indo-European languages, English grammar is rather uncomplicated. Verb conjugation by person, for instance, is virtually nonexistent; and unlike in German and the Balto-Slavic languages, there is no […]
Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.” (Underhill, 1994 p. 58) Why do […]
How to Publish a Book (and How NOT to!)
Every teacher dreams of compiling their best teaching ideas into a solid book at some point in their career, I suspect. It might be to use as a textbook for […]
Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT
Elocution Teaching and Its Place in ELT Tiptoeing through the minefield of international business communication in itself is already stressful enough, as speaking another language is not merely about learning […]
Multiplayer Video Games: a Language-learning Opportunity
By: Terry Fredrickson Ask your students what they do in their spare time and, chances are, many of them will tell you they play video games. This is fun for […]
What Can Cinderella Tell us about the Role of Pronunciation in L2 Teaching?
By Vasiliki Lismani The well-known fairy tale of Cinderella with its adorable, yet miserable and unfortunate heroine has always been one of my favourites. In very few words, we have […]
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority As a second language learner, I spent 20 weeks in ELICOS classrooms in two different institutions but out of those 400 […]
Awakening to Global Englishes
Xue Wang, University of Hong KongFan Fang, Shantou University NS ideology With English becoming a lingua franca on a global scale, the number of so-called non-native English speakers has surpassed […]
Being Mistaken for a Native Speaker… Mission Accomplished?
by Laura Polanco As foreign language teachers, we are aware of how big the “native speaker” controversy has become and somehow, we, consciously and unconsciously, reflect this in our teaching […]