Lessons from Student Evaluations (or Teaching by the Numbers):
by Tory Thorkelson As I have mentioned previously, our university here in Korea does student evaluations of our classes online (and has done so since 2002) but the questions and
Making the Move from Teacher to Freelance Consultant
by Tim Thompson Three years ago I left my job as a visiting professor at a top university in South Korea and started a consulting company. When I tell people
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
Tools and Tips to Help Your Students Write an A+ Essay/Research Paper
Tory S. Thorkelson, M.Ed. More and more students are being asked to write undergraduate papers and yet, even where writing classes are offered, there is never enough time to cover
News as a Tool for the ESL/EFL Classroom
by Tory Thorkelson This semester, I had to design an all new course entitled “Current Events and Listening” and, since as usual, I received little or no guidance about what
Why Learn Students’ Names?
By Yvette Denise Murdoch In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, conflict between families brings Juliet to call upon Romeo to forsake his Montague name so that they can be together. She
Starting a revolution in Korean ESL
by Allistair Elliott The great question I was once asked in an interview ‘how I could revolutionise the teaching of English in Korea’. Having spent 7 years teaching in Korea,
Surviving Existential Dread in the EFL Workplace
By Todd Squitieri So in this article, I’m going to talk about what you can do when your days at your job get monotonous, when the days become repetitive. When
The Path to Pain-Free Speaking Exams
by Wayne Finley Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d copy and paste from