Book Review: A Descriptive Grammar of English
The question of whether to teach grammar prescriptively or descriptively has been much debated in the ELT community. On the one hand, teaching prescriptive…
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Top 10 Books for New EFL Teachers
There is always help and advice available on books for EFL teachers. Whether it is from Facebook groups, forums or from colleagues, you are…
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Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.”…
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The Expressive Power of Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them
By Richard E. McDorman Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works…
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English for Specific Purposes in Vocational Schools
By Maja-Barbara Kokot The subtitle I borrowed from Hutchinson and Waters represents the gist of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and its guiding…
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Mobile Learning ‘Book Review’
By Shaun Wilden Mobile Learning Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-420039-4 This slim volume of around 100 pages is all about helping teachers to come…
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How Important Can A Teacher’s Meeting Be?
By Leticia Sales As with most schools in Brazil, the one where I am a pedagogical coordinator has a teacher’s meeting (or branch) meeting…
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