12 Steps to Hiring a Teacher Who’s World-Class
Hiring a teacher is a big responsibility. But hiring someone you’ve never met in ‘real life’ and persuading them to fly halfway around the…
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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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Foreign Language Acquisition – The Challenges of 2020
challenges of 2020 As a new decade dawned on 1st January 2020, there was a huge wave of hope that filled many with positive…
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Abandoned Anxiety Attitude (AAA)
As many of you know, Asian students in particular, usually are painfully shy, especially when speaking in public, Figure 1. I recently delivered a…
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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.”…
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Incorporating the Best-Available Social Network into your Course Design
By: Elliot Patton When I came to Japan to teach at my current university in 2011, the application known as LINE did not yet…
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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…
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Are “Super-Tutors” Reshaping EFL?
By: Jacob Williams Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of private tutors, both globally and the…
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From Confucius to Plato
by Peter Hughes As like many Universities in China, Open Lectures are often given by foreign teachers. I teach Civil Engineering and English to…
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Interview with Steve Hirschorn
by Sharyn Collins 40 years teaching and training, specialist in the history of ELT methodology, mentor to countless teachers and trainers, still innovating…
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