Student-Led Learning – Some Tips for Success
Student-Led Learning – A Journey Books, bells, desks, students sitting in rows, teachers talking and writing on blackboards. This has been going on for centuries and, although teachers and experts […]
A Paradigm-Shift in English Teaching in Pakistan
Teacher friendly English classrooms by Irum Butt Most Pakistani English language classrooms (PELCs) use the traditional lecture method (Waseem, 2009), or teacherexplanation along with the whole-class teaching strategies. Though, the […]
60 Positive Activities for Every Classroom is more than just fun and games!
By Patrice Palmer 60 Positive Activities for Every Classroom by Teresa X. Nguyen and Nathaniel Cayanan is a fun-filled resource with activities that can easily be used as fillers, enders […]
Oh not Again! Advice for Preparing for any Eventuality
by David Beltrame As a teacher in Asia, I’m sure we share the same routine each morning: wake up, bathe, get computer, have breakfast, get to work and BANG! You […]
Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) at the Dawn of the 21st Century
By Giuseppe Carone How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t! William Shakespeare, ‘The Tempest’ Some time ago, […]
Let Your Students be Teachers
by Paul McAleese Have you ever let students be the teacher in class? I have discovered that doing this can not only be really productive, but also very motivating for […]
Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners with AR
Teaching Vocabulary to English-Language Learners with AR Curiosity is the crucial element in our DNA which drives us to explore and learn. From ancient times until now, we, as human […]
My Favorite Icebreaker Activities for New University Classes
by Tory Thorkelson As someone who used various versions of Find Someone Who to warm up my classes at the beginning of my career, I am constantly trying to come […]
Collocate: The Importance of Teaching Collocations
Collocate: The Importance of Teaching Collocations When I was invited to write the article for this magazine, I thought it would be a great opportunity to offer some of the […]
From Mainstream to ESL Teaching
by Abigail Burrow Moving from mainstream to ESL is not a typical step in teaching. However, when I found myself in Asia on vacation in 2016, I realised how much […]