5 Things That Caught Me Off Guard While Teaching in Rural Japan
Teaching in Rural Japan: I lived in Japan for seven years until November 2019 where I started off working in a fishing village as…
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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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Teacher Roles Before and After the Pandemic
Awareness about the roles played by ESL/ EFL teachers in the classroom is key to a high quality development of the class. One lesson…
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Trends in EFL Teaching, 2021
With the vast changes in teaching and learning that have literally been forced upon educators since early 2020, we as language teachers must stay…
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A Moral Dilemma in My Teaching Career
THE MORAL QUESTION Would you put your own job in jeopardy to highlight the needs of your students? Yes? Read the question again. Even…
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Enhancing Performance in B1-B2 exams for Dyslectic Learners
by Maria Argyriou In general, the performance of adolescent students preparing to sit for B1/ B2 exams is reinforced by the teacher’s methodical planning…
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Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy
A collection of instructed second language acquisition studies Masatoshi Sato & Shawn Loewen (Eds.) New York, NY: Routledge 358 pages ISBN-10: 0815392532 ISBN-13: 978-0815392538 Instructed second…
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The Value of Attending Conferences
Having been fortunate enough to attend a number of ELT conferences this year, I have decided to provide an overview of the last two,…
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A Journey into Student-Led Learning
by Louise Potter Books, bells, desks, students sitting in rows, teachers talking and writing on blackboards. This has been going on for centuries and,…
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Literature
By Giuseppe Carone ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ (‘Endymion’, l. 1, Book 1, 1818, by J. Keats) Literature and society Dear…
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