10 Tools To Maximize Distance Learning
Distance learning is becoming more popular by the day. It is convenient, accessible, and many of the tools are free. It may not yet have attained the desirability of conventional […]
English Teaching in Japan: My Experience
English Teaching in Japan: My Experience When I started pondering what I could share about teaching English in Japan, I felt uneasy. My story is experienced within and limited by […]
Teaching Listening Skills is the Heart of Our Work
Teaching Listening Skills is the Heart of Our Work Listening is one of the most important skills used in learning languages, and is also one of the least understood. Listening […]
Book Review: Brainstorming By Erasmus and Houston
Book Review: Brainstorming by Erasmus and Houston “Brainstorming”, written by Gerhard Erasmus and Hall Houston, is a new eBook published by the round this year. The main focus of this […]
Podcast Interview With Professor Mark A. McDaniel
Podcast interview with professor Mark A. McDaniel Mark A. McDaniel is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences (1980 Ph.D., University of Colorado), and the founding Co-Director of the […]
Using Coaching Techniques In ELT
Using Coaching Techniques in ELT I have been a language trainer here in France for over 20 years now, having started by learning Lozanov’s suggestopaedic method back in the early […]
Entrepreneurs: Interview with Duolingo Founder
Entrepreneurs: Interview with Louis von Ahn Welcome to the first in a new monthly series we’ll be running. In it the founder and owner of EFL Magazine, Philip Pound, will […]
The Freelance Teacher: How do I Make or Achieve a Brand?
The Freelance Teacher What Is A Brand? Our fictitious English teacher, Sally, had a brand. One could see it instinctively but couldn’t define what it was. She was doing something […]
Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning Cooperative learning is a technique which is based on ideas by the educators John Dewey, Kurt Levin and Morton Deutsch in the 1930s and 40s. In 1994 David […]
Teaching the Writing Process
Teaching the Writing Process When you read a piece of good writing in The Economist, Folha de São Paulo or The New Yorker, you will probably wonder about the special […]