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 […]
Grammar Police – Mistakes Native English Speakers Make
by Nico De Napoli Back in the noughties, I taught English as a second language for several years. Being a foreign national made it trickier to find work, as many […]
EVE: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
by Sue Leather Why EVE? It seems that the time is right for this kind of initiative. Good progress has been made already in the fight for parity for women […]
Where I Teach – Henan Polytechnic University
by Peter Hughes I teach at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU) in China. It is a beautiful campus, with Lotus flower lakes, rivers with black swans, hidden woods and peaceful parks. […]
Where I Teach: South Korea
By Tory Thorkelson Where do you teach? A private University in Seoul, South Korea. According to the Complete University Guide, “[there are 43 national and almost 180 private universities and […]
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 […]
Kyoto – School for Sale
Kyoto School for sale Do you want to start your own school, but don’t know where to begin? There’s a big opportunity in Kyoto that you won’t want to miss […]
Business English Trainer – Some Advice for Your Classes
Business English Trainer – Some Advice for Your Classes As a branch of English that is constantly gaining more attention, both from students and researchers who further wish to understand […]
“Comma knowledge”: Some Points about Punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese, Polish or Spanish native speaker, and […]
Interview with Ken Collins
Ken, we come from the same city of Newcastle upon Tyne England, share the same surname and have known each other you since you were twelve years old because of […]