A Teacher’s Starter Library
A Teacher’s Starter Library: In this day and age, we take the endless sea of useful (and sometimes less than useful) information available on…
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American, British, and Euro-English
Compared to other Indo-European languages, English grammar is rather uncomplicated. Verb conjugation by person, for instance, is virtually nonexistent; and unlike in German and…
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Language Doubts of a Retired English Teacher
Only his? By Giuseppe Carone I am a retired native Italian EFL teacher. Before retiring, I spent more than three decades teaching English in…
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Why and How I Wrote a Dictionary of One-Word Puns
by Pablo Dominguez Let me say from the start, that I am a lover of puns and wordplay. I’ve always been. When I was…
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Some Thoughts on English Language Teaching in Indonesia
By M. Faruq Ubaidillah “It is the uncontested America’s socio-economic factors that make English a language of international communication”, David Crystal I feel a…
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My bigly bad…
by Rachel Boyce In 2017 there was one new phrase that I kept hearing, from students, on TV and social media. My bad The…
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Oh No! Videos are not just for watching
Oh No! Videos are not just for watching In the present learning situation, technology is becoming ever more useful to both teachers and learners….
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The 50th Annual IATEFL Conference
The 50th Annual IATEFL Conference The date for the 50th Annual IATEFL Conference is soon approaching. Some 2,500 delegates, speakers, exhibitors and sponsors are…
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Contributor Opinion: The Native Speaker Delusion
Contributor Opinion: The Native Speaker Delusion If the title has shocked you, then I’m glad. If as a native English speaker (NS) you feel…
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