Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency
Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency My Speaking Score’s second biggest market outside of the US is South Korea. The peninsula’s slipping ranks in English […]
The IELTS Is Not Academic Writing
The IELTS is not academic writing The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is the most popular English language proficiency exam in the world. According to their official website, there […]
TEFL Books for Teachers – A Starter Library
TEFL Books for Teachers – A Starter Library In this day and age, we take the endless sea of useful (and sometimes less than useful) information available on the internet […]
Plagiarism in Higher Education: What Do Students Need to Be Aware of?
Plagiarism in Higher Education: What Do Students Need to Be Aware of? Plagiarism, simply put, is using the work of another and trying to pass it off as your own […]
Phonetics and Phonology in the Teaching of Pronunciation
Phonetics and Phonology in the Teaching of Pronunciation Introduction The teaching of pronunciation has witnessed remarkable changes throughout the history of language teaching and learning. As one of the most […]
Synthetic Phonics for EFL/ESL Learners
Let us begin with the most basic question: what exactly is “synthetic phonics”? To “synthesize” means to combine parts or elements together. Using the term “to synthesize” in a literacy […]
Teaching Conversational English in Japan: Is AI the Solution?
Teaching Conversational English in Japan: Is AI the Solution? If you had ever visited Japan before the age of Google Maps (and before or after the period of mandatory 2-meter […]
Grammar Teaching and The Problem of Terminology
Grammar Teaching and The Problem of Terminology “What’s in a word?” Shakespeare once asked. And his answer: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In other words, […]
An Interview with Basil Tonks the Founder and CEO of Two Education Companies in Japan
Born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1966, Basil moved to Canada in 1969. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he pursued Asian Studies at the Graduate School of the […]
Edinburgh’s EFL revival?
Following the twin blows of Covid and Brexit, there are signs of renewed life in Edinburgh’s EFL scene. While several schools have closed for good in the last three years, […]