Teaching through Musicals
by Bojana Urbanc As a teacher, I often wondered how to inspire my students to love school and to encourage them to develop their skills and discover their talents. Teaching […]
A (North) American K-12 and University Primer
Tory Thorkelson Just to be clear, I am a Canadian and so will include examples from both the United States and Canada (but not Mexico which is part of North […]
An Interview with John F. Faneslow
With Alexandra Chistyakova Interview with John F. Fanselow, professor emeritus at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, and a faculty member of the International Teacher Education Institute (iTDi). John F. Fanselow […]
Socratic Discussion for ESL Classes
Socratic Discussion for ESL Classes Students love to talk. It’s usually a classroom occurrence that a teacher wants to curb but there are times when talking in the classroom can […]
Marjorie Rosenberg’s Journey in EFL
by Marjorie Rosenberg When I first came to Graz to take part in a programme for opera singers in summer 1975, little did I imagine that all these years later […]
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 […]
The Gaming of the IELTS Test
by David Buckley For the last 20 years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of Chinese students taking the IELTS test every year. Last year alone, half […]
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 […]
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 […]
Language Doubts of a Retired English Teacher
Only his? By Giuseppe Carone I am a retired native Italian EFL teacher. Before retiring, I spent more than three decades teaching English in the Italian high school ‘Scientific Lyceum’ […]