Conference News: Celebrating Women in ELT

Conference News: Celebrating Women in ELT

Conference News: Celebrating Women in ELT In the 80s there was a UK-based group called Women in TEFL. Pre-email and social media, they organised conferences and events, mostly aimed at […]

Phil Wade Interviews: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat

Phil Wade Interviews: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat

Phil Wade Interviews: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat is an independent Business English Trainer with a background in finance. Through her business English with a Twist, she teaches professionals […]

Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets

Quizlet - Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets

Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets Introduction Vocabulary acquisition is an essential aspect of language teaching and learning. Quizlet is an app used to learn and practice new vocabulary. […]

English Teaching Belongs to Everyone

English Teaching Belongs to Everyone

English Teaching Belongs to Everyone INTRODUCTION Norton (1997, p 427) states that ‘English belongs to all people who speak it, whether native and non-native, whether ESL or EFL, whether standard […]

Using Coaching Techniques In ELT

Using Coaching Techniques In ELT

Using Coaching Techniques in ELT I have been a language trainer here in France for over 20 years now, having started by learning Lozanov’s suggestopaedic method back in the early […]

Copernicus Goes to France

Copernicus Goes to France

Copernicus goes to France (Actually, North London) Here’s a question for your students: what is the most widely learned foreign language in the world after English? Despite a big recent […]

Teaching Business Writing Online

Teaching business writing

Teaching Business Writing Online Online teaching is becoming a key skill in Business English training. I’ll be talking specifically about live face to face lessons delivered via video conferencing technology, […]