Reconsidering the Role of the Teacher
by Michael Fletcher As a zealous, overly-confident, but ultimately well-intentioned newly qualified teacher, I cherished the responsibility of attending parent’s evening, primarily due to the sense of significance it afforded […]
Speak Out, But Be Heard: Against Sexual Harassment in ELT
Speak Out, But Be Heard: Against Sexual Harassment in ELT About thirty years ago I walked out of my fully funded MPhil/PhD position because I could no longer deal with […]
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No Article in their L1
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No L1 Articles occur more frequently than any other word in the English language (“Word Frequency Data”). Unfortunately, however, they remain a persistent […]
How You Can Learn from The Politeness of Qatar
How You Can Learn from the Politeness of Qatar *Miryokuteki Hinshitsu This is a true story. It happened to me a few days ago while I was flying from Athens […]
Opening a Language School in Japan – What I wish I’d Known
Opening a Language School in Japan – What I wish I’d Known I arrived in Japan in June 1999, after almost 20 years working as a high school teacher in […]
Using Personal Stories as Pedagogical Resources
Using Personal stories as pedagogical resources What do you do when you’ve been using the same grammar practice activities, worksheets, funny pictures, and PowerPoint games for a long time and […]
Online Activities for More Engaged Students
Online activities for more engaged students What we do We teach our students English. No, let me try wording that again. We do our best to help our students acquire […]
Status – So Where Do You Stand?
Status – so where do you stan We’re all very aware of who is above us, who is below and who is more or less on the same career level […]
English Teaching Belongs to Everyone
English Teaching Belongs to Everyone INTRODUCTION Norton (1997, p 427) states that ‘English belongs to all people who speak it, whether native and non-native, whether ESL or EFL, whether standard […]
Book Review: Text Chat Activities
Text Chat Activities A few months ago, I received an email from Mark Oliver who was keen for me to review his self-published book entitled “Text Chat Activities: A resource […]