Teach Phrasal Verbs – The Global Approach
Teach Phrasal Verbs – The Global Approach Teachers and learners tend to perceive Phrasal Verbs as difficult to learn, particularly as they seem to have so many alternative meanings, yet […]
Synthetic Phonics for EFL/ESL Learners
Let us begin with the most basic question: what exactly is “synthetic phonics”? To “synthesize” means to combine parts or elements together. Using the term “to synthesize” in a literacy […]
Cuisenaire Rods for Language Teaching, Part 1
Cuisenaire Rods for Language Teaching, Part 1 After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided to write […]
American, British, and Euro-English
Compared to other Indo-European languages, English grammar is rather uncomplicated. Verb conjugation by person, for instance, is virtually nonexistent; and unlike in German and the Balto-Slavic languages, there is no […]
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.” (Underhill, 1994 p. 58) Why do […]
How to Teach IELTS Writing Online
How to Teach IELTS Writing Online Five years ago, I was teaching IELTS Writing for the British Council in Vietnam. I started to put my lessons online so that students […]
How to Teach Collocations – The Sure-Fire Way
How to Teach Collocations – The Sure-Fire Way Would you like me to show you a sure-fire method to teach English to your students? Something that would not only give […]
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started
Humanistic Language Teaching: Some Techniques to Get Started Since the main purpose of any language is to communicate and understand each other, as teachers, we should always pay attention to […]
Common English Language Mistakes Made by Japanese Speakers
by Delic Meliha More and more Japanese continue to learn English, which is the common lingua franca across the globe and supposedly one of the easiest languages to learn. It […]
Cuisenaire Rods in Language Learning – Part 2
by Steve Hirschhorn A rod by any other name… Figure 1 Two boxes of Cuisenaire Rods, the top one a new set and the other, an original from 1981! The […]