One-to-One: Creating Comfort
One-to-One: Creating Comfort In the purely linguistic sense, the notion of creating comfort is pretty much the same in one-to-one and group contexts. It is linked to the concept called […]
Teaching English in Turkey: A Brief Guide
Teaching English in Turkey: A Brief Guide I’m from a small town of 60,000 people in the middle of Wisconsin called Oshkosh, famous for Oshkosh B’Gosh. Very few people from […]
Copernicus: Assessing English Skills
Copernicus: Assessing English Skills “The heavenly bodies do not all move round the same centre.” This is the first of seven axioms written down by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus […]
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom ‘The map is not the territory: we all have different maps of the world.’ This phrase used by NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioners nicely […]
The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation
The IPA Vowel Chart and Teaching Pronunciation One spring afternoon in 2001, I was ten steps away from entering my Adult ESL class when a little idea popped into my […]