Simon Moran on the Franchisee Option for ELT Entrepreneurs
Today’s guest is Simon Moran. Simon is the owner of www.modernenglish.net, and has been a successful franchisor for nearly 20 years. I chat to…
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A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT
Acronyms in ELT : What they mean and where and how they are used. Like any profession or field, the teaching of English has evolved…
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Plagiarism in Higher Education: What Do International Students Need to Be Aware of?
Plagiarism, simply put, is using the work of another and trying to pass it off as your own work by not giving due credit…
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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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