Teach Phrasal Verbs – The Global Approach
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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“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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]