Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults
Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults Part 1 A description of adult strengths and weaknesses If you’ve read my previous article titled ‘Useful thoughts on teaching adults’, […]
Teaching Practice as a Motivational Tool
by MS ROGERIO QUIJANO SOTOMAYOR BA SAMUEL IGNACIO BENITEZ OSUNA Motivation plays an important role in the quality of our performance in every single activity we do throughout our daily […]
Cambridge University Press is Looking for Its Next You Tube EFL Star Presenters
Cambridge University Press is looking for its next You Tube EFL Star Presenters. Cambridge University Press has launched a global competition to find four presenters or its new YouTube channel. […]
Examining Adult Learners in More Detail
By Maroussa Pavli PART 1 A description of adult strengths & weaknesses If you’ve read my previous article entitled ‘Useful thoughts on teaching adults’, you’ll have seen a discussion on […]
Penny Ur : 100 Teaching Tips – Book Review
by Penny Ur Cambridge University Press 2016 Reviewed by Scott Zimmermann, D.A. Few authors in the field of EFL are as eminently qualified as Penny Ur. Her practical book, Penny […]
Reflection as an act of sharing and caring
By Vasiliki Lismani “Sharing is caring”. You might think “What a cliché!” but, as teachers we know that this is (or at least should be) our motto. Sharing is, by […]
English Language Teaching to Adults – Some Thoughts
English Language Teaching to Adults – Some Thoughts Have you been teaching English to children and teenagers and you’re now interested in working with adult learners? Do you know what […]
“Comma knowledge”: Some Points about Punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese, Polish or Spanish native speaker, and […]
English as a Lingua Franca in University
I. Introduction: Conceptualizing English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Any lingua franca through time has made possible the communication of people who have different mother tongues. Jenkins (2006, p.11) indicates […]
Some Approaches to Teaching Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs are often confusing for students, due to their idiomatic nature. Unfortunately, there is no quick formula for students to learn and understand them. There is no one rule […]