What Is The Fair List?
What is the Fair List? There are many kinds of excellence in ELT. Some of these are rewarded. For innovation in ELT, for example, we have the ELTons. For those […]
Teaching Listening Skills is the Heart of Our Work
Teaching Listening Skills is the Heart of Our Work Listening is one of the most important skills used in learning languages, and is also one of the least understood. Listening […]
Book Review: Penny Ur’s 100 Teaching Tips
I received a small package from Cambridge University Press last week and was eager to open it up and see what I had received. Sure enough, as I was expecting, […]
How to Find a Job Teaching English
How To Find a Job Teaching English I work as an ELT teacher trainer and consultant now, but in the past I worked for several years as a teacher recruiter […]
Celpe-Bras: Ideas for English Language Testing
Celpe-Bras: Ideas for English Language Testing Celpe-Bras stands for Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (in English: Portuguese Language Proficiency Exam for Foreigners). It is the only proficiency […]
Finding Your Teaching Niche
Finding Your Teaching Niche I’m a member of a Facebook group for IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language). In December, 2015, I made an open […]
How to Get Students to Speak in Class
How to Get Students to Speak in Class How to get students to speak in class ? Despite Steven Krashen’s famous methodology of language acquisition, in which he claims students […]
How Learning a Language Can Benefit Your Teaching
How learning a language can benefit your teaching My major embarrassment as an EFL teacher is not being fluent in another language. However, all that is about to change. I […]
Start an Online Teaching Business
Start an Online Teaching Business English learners are moving online in ever increasing numbers. They spend hours on YouTube watching videos in English; they use social media to connect with […]
Book Review: The Book of Pronunciation
The Book of Pronunciation When I was first doing my CELTA course in Seoul, South Korea, I learnt lots of new techniques and ideas which I could use in my […]