Don’t Stare – Start Writing Instead
by Elizabeth Bekes Cuenca, Ecuador Book review on The PhD Writing Handbook by Desmond Thomas Palgrave September 2016 The opening scene of Sally Potter’s movie, The Tango Lesson is imprinted […]
Supporting In-Sessional Students in Higher Education
By Mark Lawrence Context The university where I work, Sheffield University, has a huge number of international students and we offer a lot of support to them on their programmes. […]
Reconsidering the Role of the Teacher
by Michael Fletcher As a zealous, overly-confident, but ultimately well-intentioned newly qualified teacher, I cherished the responsibility of attending parent’s evening, primarily due to the sense of significance it afforded […]
Dispatches of a Teacher on the Front Line
Dispatches of a Teacher on the Front Line I was doing a talk with some ELT teachers at a school in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon in 2015, in a […]
Using PWIM to Teach Vocabulary
Using PWIM to Teach Vocabulary PWIM, or Picture-Word Inductive Model (Calhoun, 1999) is a strategy that uses pictures as a starting point from which to teach a variety of English […]
Why Evidence Matters
Why Evidence Matters Evidence in education is something that is being discussed more and more often in talks, blogs and articles, so it seems like a good time to throw […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Akos Gerold
Phil Wade Interviews: Akos Gerold How do you define what you do? Are you a teacher? A trainer? A coach? A skills developer? I say I am a business communication […]
Beyond ELT – The Uncollection
‘Take a note – any note!’ Church in trouble: ‘Ask not what thy God can do for you; ask what thou canst do for thy God’, but surely God doesn’t […]
Why Would Anyone Hate Chick Kendle?
‘’Why would anyone hate Chick Kendle?’ [The side of ELT nobody talks about in public] Who is Chick Kendle?: Chick Kendle is about 21. He has been teaching English […]
How to Be a Great Manager
How to Be a Great Manager The importance of spotting: Some people are good at generating ideas. Others collect them. I am a collector myself. I walk around with a ‘mental […]