Chris Ozog – Phil Wade Interviews

Chris Ozog – Phil Wade Interviews Chris Ożóg is a teacher, teacher trainer and writer, originally from Scotland but very rarely there now. He’s been involved in English Language Teaching […]
Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking

Pronunciation – IELTS Speaking Hello and welcome back to the final article in this series, looking this time at Pronunciation. If you haven’t read my previous instalment on Grammatical Range […]
Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking

Grammatical Range and Accuracy – IELTS Speaking Welcome back to my IELTS speaking series looking at the speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t read the previous part of this series on […]
Fluency and Coherence – IELTS Speaking

Fluency and Coherence IELTS Speaking In my last article, I gave a brief introduction to the IELTS speaking grading criteria. If you haven’t seen it, you might want to have […]
IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors: an Introduction

IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors: An Introduction What is IELTS? If you’ve never heard of IELTS, you’ll probably come across it sooner or later – it’s the world’s most popular English […]
Learning Language Online: Reflections And Reviews

Learning Language Online: Reflections And Reviews I’m an English teacher, but the first language I was taught was French. Like many, I started at middle school and continued to GCSE […]
Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency

Case Study: The AI Solution to South Korea’s Declining English Proficiency My Speaking Score’s second biggest market outside of the US is South Korea. The peninsula’s slipping ranks in English […]
TEFL Books for Teachers – A Starter Library

TEFL Books for Teachers – A Starter Library In this day and age, we take the endless sea of useful (and sometimes less than useful) information available on the internet […]
Phonetics and Phonology in the Teaching of Pronunciation

Phonetics and Phonology in the Teaching of Pronunciation Introduction The teaching of pronunciation has witnessed remarkable changes throughout the history of language teaching and learning. As one of the most […]
Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning

Teaching Phrasal Verbs – Lesson Planning Firstly, let me explain the thinking behind the teaching phrasal verbs (GA). Over the last forty years, I have become increasingly dissatisfied with conventional […]