The Future of English Language Teaching is Liberal Arts
Our disrupted world is poised for more disruption. New technologies have already upended many industries and professions. English language teaching and education more generally have not been an exception. Language […]
Mistakes Are Opportunities to Learn
Mistakes Are Opportunities to Learn When we’re learning a foreign language, we are bound to make mistakes. As a teacher, I encourage my learners to take risks and praise them […]
Teaching and Exploring in a New Culture
By Alyssa Micek This article is designed to facilitate discussion regarding the cultural challenges of teaching abroad as well as the valuable lessons one can learn through the process. It […]
Penny Ur : 100 Teaching Tips – Book Review
by Penny Ur Cambridge University Press 2016 Reviewed by Scott Zimmermann, D.A. Few authors in the field of EFL are as eminently qualified as Penny Ur. Her practical book, Penny […]
Interview with Nicholas Walker
By Sharyn Collins Hello, Nicholas, could you tell me about your background and how you got into EFL? I’m English, but I was born in Singapore. My father was in […]
Immediate or Delayed Error Correction? Fix Learners’ Mistakes
By Gabriel Clark Let’s start this article with a bit of well-grounded research. According to John Hattie’s epic meta-study on factors that impact learning the most, Visible Learning, providing feedback […]
An Introduction to the Benefits of Using Sign Language for Function Words
An Introduction to the Benefits of Using Sign Language for Function Words Error-correction has long been a domain for debate and a persistent bane of teachers’ life. In fact, error-correction […]
False Friends in the Dutch and Spanish Classroom
False Friends in the Dutch and Spanish Classroom This piece is all about false friends: what they are and how they can be used in lessons and beyond. It will […]
Book Review: Penny Ur’s 100 Teaching Tips
I received a small package from Cambridge University Press last week and was eager to open it up and see what I had received. Sure enough, as I was expecting, […]
Write Right: Teaching Composition Skills
Teaching composition skills Nine years ago, I found myself having to rediscover how to teach writing to sophomores and higher level students for the first time since I did my […]