My DELTA Diary: Module 2 Intensive Course
by Paul Finnerty I’ve been teaching English for about seven years on and off and have worked in Brazil, Colombia, Portugal and Italy in that time. To be honest, I […]
A Trio of Sightless Rodents
by Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. An effective vocabulary builder for elementary and middle school pupils is challenging them to create parodies of familiar nursery rhymes, sayings and song lyrics, by […]
Empathy, Sympathy or Something Else?
By Rachel Paling As an EFL teacher and a trainer in Neurolanguage Coaching, my senses are acutely switched on to how people react in certain situations, and over the past […]
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority
Why Pronunciation Teaching Should Be the Number One Priority As a second language learner, I spent 20 weeks in ELICOS classrooms in two different institutions but out of those 400 […]
The Importance of Using Names in Teaching
by Jennifer Cochran How Do Show Respect for Our Students? “Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” – Dale […]
English UK South West Annual Conference
by Sue Fulford A last-minute decision to attend the English UK South West Conference was well worth the early morning defrosting of the car following the first severe frost of […]
Why and How I Wrote a Dictionary of One-Word Puns
by Pablo Dominguez Let me say from the start, that I am a lover of puns and wordplay. I’ve always been. When I was 10 years old or so, I […]
The Path to Pain-Free Speaking Exams
by Wayne Finley Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d copy and paste from […]
What Does the Future Hold for TH Sounds?
By Jonathon Owen The TH-sounds /θ/ and /ð/ (dental fricatives) can be challenging for English language learners to master if their native language (L1) does not include them. The likelihood […]
Grammar Police – Mistakes Native English Speakers Make
by Nico De Napoli Back in the noughties, I taught English as a second language for several years. Being a foreign national made it trickier to find work, as many […]