Using Negotiation Role Plays in the English Classroom
Dale Coulter and David Wilson list and describe the five essential characteristics of a successful negotiation role play Roleplay has always been a particularly effective way of giving practice to […]
How to Publish a Book (and How NOT to!)
Every teacher dreams of compiling their best teaching ideas into a solid book at some point in their career, I suspect. It might be to use as a textbook for […]
Bringing Back Professor Higgins – Why We Should Be More Concerned with Teaching Elocution
By: Sophie Vivienne Kottmayer Tiptoeing through the minefield of international business communication in itself is already stressful enough, as speaking another language is not merely about learning several words and […]
A Journey into Student-Led Learning
by Louise Potter Books, bells, desks, students sitting in rows, teachers talking and writing on blackboards. This has been going on for centuries and, although teachers and experts have stated […]
From Confucius to Plato
by Peter Hughes As like many Universities in China, Open Lectures are often given by foreign teachers. I teach Civil Engineering and English to undergraduates in China at the Henan […]
My First Time Presenting: ELT and the 4th Industrial Revolution
by Phil Newman Ask me about “ELT and the 4th Industrial Revolution” at the bar and I’ll happily oblige. Ask me to present the subject at an IATEFL BESIG conference, […]
Our Experience of Job Shadowing in Schools
by Suzana Poljak At the very beginning of an Erasmus+ programme, teachers in the Primary School, Juraj Dobrila in Rovinj in Croatia were given an opportunity to widen their horizons […]
Lessons from Student Evaluations (or Teaching by the Numbers):
by Tory Thorkelson As I have mentioned previously, our university here in Korea does student evaluations of our classes online (and has done so since 2002) but the questions and […]
Using Storyboard- a Student-Friendly Language Learning Tool
by Irum Butt As a teacher in Pakistan, I am always looking for new ways to engage the children in my classes so that they can develop their language skills. […]
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 […]