Presenting New Language Through Action Songs
Presenting New Language Through Action Songs As long ago as 1968, the language expert and author Julian Dakin wrote: “If songs and rhymes are well taught, they are seldom forgotten. […]
Critical Thinking and English Language Teaching Pt. 2
Critical Thinking And English Language Teaching Critical thinking is not only definable but teachable. That’s good news in general, but does this mean critical thinking has a role in ELT? […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost
Phil Wade Interviews: Dan Frost Dan Frost has a French doctorate in English for Specific Purposes and Teaching Theory. After reading Languages and Linguistics at York University, he taught English […]
Presentation highlights from IATEFL 2016
Presentation highlights from IATEFL 2016 Among the presentation highlights from IATEFL 2016, by far the most talked about session this year was Silvana Richardson’s plenary ‘The “native factor”, the haves […]
The Lexical Approach – A Beginners’ Guide
The Lexical Approach – A beginners Guide The term “teaching lexically” was coined by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley, coursebook writers (Innovations, Outcomes) and teacher trainers (LexicalLab), who have proudly taken over from the […]
How to Find a Job Teaching English
How To Find a Job Teaching English I work as an ELT teacher trainer and consultant now, but in the past I worked for several years as a teacher recruiter […]
Using Technology to Give Feedback to Students
Using Technology to Give Feedback to Students If someone was to ask me what technology I use more than any other in education then the answer would be simple: screen […]
How Learning a Language Can Benefit Your Teaching
How learning a language can benefit your teaching My major embarrassment as an EFL teacher is not being fluent in another language. However, all that is about to change. I […]
Using First Language In the Classroom
Using First Language in the Classroom When I was first thinking of advertising my services as a young one-to-one teacher I decided to read some advertisements by my colleagues to […]
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach In my previous article for EFLmagazine.com, Taking a Chunk out of Vocabulary: Using Collocations (2015), I examined what collocation is and the benefits of […]