The Incomplete A – Z of EFL: P-T
By Allistair Elliott P is for parents (actually, mothers). Can we please have some EFL training courses for parents. Whilst it is often a pleasure to teach their children, […]
The Incomplete A – Z of EFL: A-K
By Allistair Elliott For the real and authoritative A-Z of ELT, please visit Scott Thornbury https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/ However, this is going to be a more unstructured and antagonistic look at […]
Does EFL Have an In-Class Listening Strategy?
By Allistair Elliott “Listening is the most critical communication skill”. Harmer on listening (briefly) Let’s look at what some of the heavy hitters in EFL have to say about listening. […]
Some of My Favourite Sites and Groups for Professional Development
By Tory Thorkelson According to edglossarry.org, “[i]n education, the term professional development may be used in reference to a wide variety of specialized training, formal education, or advanced professional learning […]
“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 […]
What I learnt from Jeremy Harmer
About the role of course books in the modern age Helbling Languages – Books and Bits (joint professional development event) by Erzsébet Békés As background music, I have Sona Jobarteh […]
The Recent History of Pronunciation Teaching in English Language Teaching
by Steve Hirschhorn In Europe, pronunciation teaching prior to the late 19th c relied largely on imitation along with approximations derived from spelling and so, unsurprisingly, little was written on […]
Working with the Achuar in the Deep Amazon
Working with the Achuar in the Deep Amazon “Wiyu and Leon are well, they are happy”, says Cristóbal on Facebook and even though the message is a mix of Spanish […]
KoreaTESOL (KOTESOL) International Conference
KoreaTESOL (KOTESOL) International Conference Another conference is done and as the post-conference cocktail of exhaustion and euphoria fades, I would like share with you who we are, what it is […]