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
Five years ago, I was teaching IELTS Writing for the British Council in Vietnam. I started to put my lessons online so that students who missed the class could access […]
A Sure-Fire Way to Teach Collocations
Would you like me to show you a sure-fire method to teach English to your students? Something that would not only give them a much-needed confidence shot in the arm […]
Humanistic Techniques in English Language Teaching
by Zorana Petricevic Make your lessons more interesting by relating them to subjects of interest Since the main purpose of any language is to communicate and understand each other, as […]
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 […]
Cuisenaire Rods in Language Learning Classroom, Part 1
by Steve Hirschhorn After the interest shown in the Cuisenaire Rods workshop at the Recent EdYouFest teachers’ event in South West England, I decided to write a little about them […]
Dealing with Dyslexia at Junior levels
By Maria Argyriou Teaching students with dyslexia and learning difficulties of any type, poses particular challenges and demands on the educators who undertake the task. A task which becomes even […]
Delivering Online Classes for Busy Professionals
By Lucy Nankivell Delivering online classes for busy professionals When I changed from classroom to online teaching, I thought I would be using much the same materials and methods as […]