Decoding the IELTS and TOEFL Essay Rubrics
IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics As teachers, it is helpful to use IELTS and TOEFL essay rubrics to guide our students to get top…
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Valuing Teachers: What Are They Really Worth?
That attempt to value the position of ‘Housewife’ popped up in my Facebook feed again. I cringed because the attempt to translate a position…
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How to Activate Your Classes with Drama
Many teachers are well aware of techniques like dialogues or roleplaying as standard parts of many textbooks for teaching ESL/EFL conversation, for example. However,…
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Our First Common Language and How to Use It To Make a Lasting First Impression
Have you ever thought of yourself as being a human transmitter and receiver? Well, through evolution and especially through the need to survive, this…
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A Chat with Sakurako Oshima: Entrepreneur, Teacher, and Successful Author
In 2007, Sakurako Oshima set up her own company specialising in English education for adults. Her mission is to provide powerful support to as…
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Five Icebreaker Activities for EFL Students
At the beginning of a course, students are often meeting each other for the very first time. Therefore, it’s advisable to use icebreakers or…
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Zen and the Art of Language Presentations
To teach new language successfully, and in a way that students are interested in, it can often help to point to something beyond the…
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Lessons in Business from Building a Thriving Test-Prep Company
After nearly 30 years of intensive experience in every aspect of test preparation, Mike Bergin knows what works in tutoring and what doesn’t. A…
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EFL Business and Digital Accessibility: Is it Worth the Effort?
Introduction It seems that we are still dependent on technology to ensure our institutions deliver language instruction as we move through 2022. Instructors, students,…
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5 Activities for Learning Names
When you start teaching a new group of students, it’s important to begin learning their names right away. As Lang (2020) puts it, “learning…
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