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 the internet for granted. However, there […]
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 the Balto-Slavic languages, there is no […]
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 the Italian high school ‘Scientific Lyceum’ […]
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 10 years old or so, I […]
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 little frustrated, no I feel very […]
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 Urban Dictionary lists this as a […]
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. It enables us to teach in […]
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 already booked in to attend this […]
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 slightly offended, then I apologise, but […]