Foreign Language Teaching
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a historical perspective By Giuseppe Carone The aim of this article is to outline the main features and development of ‘foreign language teaching’ (FLT) in the Western world, from ancient […]
Prewriting Activities for EFL Academic-Writing Classes
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Prewriting Activities for EFL Academic Writing Classes Academic writing is not an easy skill to master, and yet it is the most important skill needed in an academic context (Alexander […]
Why Use the IPA in Class
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By Steve Hirschhorn The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the result of work by 19th and early 20th century phoneticians such as Henry Sweet, Otto Jesperson and later Daniel Jones […]
Language Doubts of a Retired English Teacher
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Only his? By Giuseppe Carone I am a retired native Italian EFL teacher. Before retiring, I spent more than three decades teaching English in the Italian high school ‘Scientific Lyceum’ […]
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority
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Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority As a second language learner, I spent 20 weeks in ELICOS classrooms in two different institutions but out of those 400 […]
Awakening to Global Englishes
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Xue Wang, University of Hong KongFan Fang, Shantou University NS ideology With English becoming a lingua franca on a global scale, the number of so-called non-native English speakers has surpassed […]
Why Educators Should Think More about The Brain in the Learning Process
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By Rachel Paling Over the past eight years I have been training language teachers worldwide to become Neurolanguage Coaches®, bringing neuroscience or knowledge about the brain as well as coaching […]
Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes
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by Elizabeth Bekes Book Review Emma Riordan: Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher 2018, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1_1 “This book examines the spoken language […]
Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults
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Teaching English as a Second Language to Adults Part 1 A description of adult strengths and weaknesses If you’ve read my previous article titled ‘Useful thoughts on teaching adults’, […]
Teaching Diverse L1 Learners in the Adult ESL Classroom
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By Natalie S. Johnson Many ESL teachers have classroom experience in countries where learners all speak the same first language or L1. Some may also share cultural circumstances. However, with […]