Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority
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 […]
Apply for the Annual Pearson English Global Teacher Award
Annual Pearson English Global Teacher Award is open for the 3rd year Friday 5th October 2018: Pearson English, part of the digital learning company Pearson, went live with its Global […]
H5P for Online English Teaching
H5P for Online English Teaching We are now living in an age where direct instruction is becoming passé. In Spring 2018, I created a questionnaire for 84 students and student […]
Where I teach
By Nataliia Tkachenko I am a full-time English teacher at Taras Shevchenko Himnazia, Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. It is a state school that combines primary, middle and high school that is common […]
Constructing a Rhizomatic Personal Learning Environment
By Nguyen Minh Trang Constructing a do-it-yourself website as a rhizomatic personal learning environment to promote learner independence, interdependence and self-motivation to convert case. The net generation With the rapid […]
Talking Adults
In response to ‘Useful Thoughts on Teaching Adults’ – Applying these principles to my teaching context. By Paul Finnerty Just as I was about to sit down and embark on […]
“Comma knowledge”: Some Points about Punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese, Polish or Spanish native speaker, and […]
How to Develop and Thrive as a Teacher without Taking CELTA or TESOL
By Ahmad Zaytoun When experience and qualifications are discussed in English language teaching, TEFL, CELTA, TESOL, and DELTA instantly spring to mind. However, the truth is that in poorer or […]
The Dangers of The Diagnostic Test – What Happened Next?
The Dangers of The Diagnostic Test – What Happened Next? A couple of months ago, I wrote an article for this magazine about what I termed the ‘Dangers of the […]
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No Article in their L1
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No L1 Articles occur more frequently than any other word in the English language (“Word Frequency Data”). Unfortunately, however, they remain a persistent […]