Online Activities for ESL Students – Wikisurfing
Online Activities for ESL Students We teach our students English. No, let me try wording that again. We do our best to help our students acquire enough language so they […]
Teach Children Using Games
Teach children using games Many teachers believe that using games in the classroom is inappropriate. Games are for fun, not for learning. At best a teacher might use a game […]
Using Coaching Techniques In ELT
Using Coaching Techniques in ELT I have been a language trainer here in France for over 20 years now, having started by learning Lozanov’s suggestopaedic method back in the early […]
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 Get Students to Speak in Class
How to Get Students to Speak in Class How to get students to speak in class ? Despite Steven Krashen’s famous methodology of language acquisition, in which he claims students […]
Special report on FAB8 Kyoto
FAB8 Kyoto FAB8 – the latest in a series of international neuroELT conferences dedicated to neuroscience and English Language Teaching – was held at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan from […]
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 […]
Book Review: The Book of Pronunciation
The Book of Pronunciation When I was first doing my CELTA course in Seoul, South Korea, I learnt lots of new techniques and ideas which I could use in my […]
Michael Erard Interview
Michael Erard has graduate degrees in linguistics and rhetoric from the University of Texas at Austin. He’s written about language, linguists, and linguistics for Wired, The Atlantic,The New York Times, […]