Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) at the Dawn of the 21st Century
By Giuseppe Carone How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t! William Shakespeare, ‘The Tempest’ Some time ago, […]
English UK South West Annual Conference
by Sue Fulford A last-minute decision to attend the English UK South West Conference was well worth the early morning defrosting of the car following the first severe frost of […]
Lifting a Fourth-Grade Language Learner
By Fred Gamble According to Pellino (2012, para. 1), “Students with English as a second language (ESL) constitute a significant percentage of the population of our nation’s schools. This population […]
Finding The Comfort Zone
Finding the comfort zone How do you sleep? My position of choice starts with the following steps: 1. Stack two pillows just right. 2. Lie on my right side, […]
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning Cooperative learning is a technique which is based on ideas by the educators John Dewey, Kurt Levin and Morton Deutsch in the 1930s and 40s. In 1994 David […]
Cooperative Learning in the EFL/ESL Classroom
Cooperative Learning in the EFL/ESL Classroom How much talking do your young learners do in class? We know that children love talking in their mother tongue – in fact it […]