Lessons in Business from Building a Thriving Test-Prep Company
After nearly 30 years of intensive experience in every aspect of test preparation, Mike Bergin knows what works in tutoring and what doesn’t. A…
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EFL Business and Digital Accessibility: Is it Worth the Effort?
Introduction It seems that we are still dependent on technology to ensure our institutions deliver language instruction as we move through 2022. Instructors, students,…
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A Chat with Jane Dancaster, Managing Director of Wimbledon School of English
Jane Dancaster is currently Managing Director of Wimbledon School of English (one of the UK’s top English language schools). She started her EFL career…
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Cubing: Recharging the Power of Brainstorming
“My family had to escape from our country because of it.” My EAP (English for Academic Purposes) class had ‘cubed’ the lesson topic –…
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How to Use Digital Marketing to Skyrocket Your Teaching Business, with Leah Sparrow
Leah has been the owner of Leah Sparrow Digital Marketing since January of 2020. Her love for marketing was discovered in the early 1990’s….
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9 Creative and Interactive Teaching Resources for ESL Online
Online teaching always seems to be lacking something. Regular exercises and textbooks are boring and mundane because they lack ’real language situations.’ Let’s make…
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Making the Most Out of Your Coursebooks
The role of coursebooks in EFL is a topic of some controversy. For many, language books form the backbone of their curriculums, and some…
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Social Reform, ‘Woke’ and ELT
‘Woke’ activists have been telling us to ‘wake up’ for the past two years: Wake up to issues of discrimination concerning gender, sexual orientation…
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A Short Guide to Acronyms in ELT
Acronyms in ELT : What they mean and where and how they are used. Like any profession or field, the teaching of English has evolved…
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Three Classroom Activities to Promote Interactional Competence
Most EFL teachers are probably familiar with the stilted nature of the learner to learner conversational interaction. Low confidence, lack of vocabulary or grammar…
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