The Importance of Motivation in Language Learning
A Personal Reflection as an Indonesian Teacher of English as a Foreign Language by Waliyadin Nuridin It is undeniable that motivation plays a key role in second or foreign language […]
Break Free From the Pitfalls of Acquiring English
by David Perrodin The symbolism used by the Greek philosopher Plato to describe our illusions of the world in “The Allegory of the Cave” focus on the fact that the […]
Foreign Language Teaching
a historical perspective By Giuseppe Carone The aim of this article is to outline the main features and development of ‘foreign language teaching’ (FLT) in the Western world, from ancient […]
Linguacuisine
Combining technology, languages, culture and cuisine by Sharyn Collins As editor of this magazine, I very much enjoy doing interviews with interesting people from the world of EFL. These interviews […]
6 Reasons Why I, as a Language Teacher, Don’t Want a Language Teacher
by Paul Finnerty I’ve been on both sides of the tracks when it comes to language-learning. I’ve worked as an English teacher for overseas learners for going on a decade […]
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started Since the main purpose of any language is to communicate and understand each other, as teachers, we should always pay attention to […]
Interview with Arkady Zilberman
Creator of the Training English Skills System by Sharyn Collins Hello Arkady, thank you very much for doing this interview. You seem to have had a very interesting life. Where […]
Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes
by Elizabeth Bekes Book Review Emma Riordan: Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher 2018, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1_1 “This book examines the spoken language […]
Why and How I Wrote a Dictionary of One-Word Puns
by Pablo Dominguez Let me say from the start, that I am a lover of puns and wordplay. I’ve always been. When I was 10 years old or so, I […]
What’s the Way Forward for Language Policy in Indonesia?
by Rasman Rasman Enacting language policies in Indonesia is no facile undertaking. The country’s remarkable language diversity complicates the effort of policymakers.There have been numerous policy developments since 1928 until […]