What Does the Future Hold for TH Sounds?
By Jonathon Owen The TH-sounds /θ/ and /ð/ (dental fricatives) can be challenging for English language learners to master if their native language (L1) does not include them. The likelihood […]
How to Use Poems in EFL Teaching
By Tony Penston This is an example of how to use a popular poem to engage students and improve pronunciation using old-fashioned but effective drilling. Benefits and rationale Poems are […]
Being Mistaken for a Native Speaker… Mission Accomplished?
by Laura Polanco As foreign language teachers, we are aware of how big the “native speaker” controversy has become and somehow, we, consciously and unconsciously, reflect this in our teaching […]
Interview with Nicholas Walker
By Sharyn Collins Hello, Nicholas, could you tell me about your background and how you got into EFL? I’m English, but I was born in Singapore. My father was in […]
Where I teach
By Nataliia Tkachenko I am a full-time English teacher at Taras Shevchenko Himnazia, Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. It is a state school that combines primary, middle and high school that is common […]
Interview with Elisabeth Bekes, EFL Teacher and So Much More!
By Sharyn Collins Elizabeth, you continue to have an extraordinary and fascinating life, could you tell me where it all began? I was born in 1952 in Budapest. My sister […]
Teaching in Low Resource Classrooms – Voices of Experience
Book Review: Edited by Richard Smith, Amol Padwad and Deborah Bullock produced by the British Council. This review written by Lina Gordyshevkaya won first prize in a competition for best […]
Give Me Words and Let Me speak
By Shimmi Sharma As an English teacher, I have worked in a private school in Lahartara Varanasi, the holy city of India for ten years. While this doesn’t automatically make […]
The Dvolver Phenomenon
By Charles McKinney, IV When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop she attended. The website is called […]
Impressing your Students with Your Youtube Skills
By Tory Thorkelson As teachers, we are certainly aware of the place technology will take in the classroom whether we want it to or not. One reason I like to […]