Critical Thinking and English Language Teaching Pt. 1
Critical Thinking And English Language Teaching Pt. 1 Critical thinking has been a buzzword for some time now. In fact, judging by the research, it has been a buzzword for […]
Psychology And ELT: How Can We Boost ELT Association Membership?
How Can We Boost ELT Association Membership? ‘Wow! What’s this?’: Imagine you are living in Australia. It’s an ordinary day in early October 2005. The bell rings. You answer the […]
How Can We Communicate Effectively ?
How Can we Communicate Effectively ? Communication 101 – Mission Statements: How can we communicate effectively? “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” said […]
Using First Language In the Classroom
Using First Language in the Classroom When I was first thinking of advertising my services as a young one-to-one teacher I decided to read some advertisements by my colleagues to […]
Copernicus Goes To Rio: Soft Voices And Guitars
Copernicus Goes To Rio: Soft Voices And Guitars “We are this giant country in the southern hemisphere, highly mixed racially. We are Latin Americans, but we are not one with […]
How to Deal with Indiscipline in the Classroom (Part 2)
How to Deal with Indiscipline in the Classroom (Part 2) In the first blog post of this series on discipline, I looked at some of the causes of unruly behaviour […]
Psychology and ELT: 3 Lessons For Our Field
Psychology and ELT: 3 Lessons For Our Field What can Kobi the Great Teach us? Case Study – Kobi: The name is Takeru Kobayashi. You haven’t heard of him, […]
Beyond ELT: How Can We Revitalize Teaching?
Beyond ELT: How Can We Revitalize Teaching? I can use that: I was reading about a fascinating study the other day: a day before the US elections, researcher A. Greenwald […]
One-to-One: Creating Comfort
One-to-One: Creating Comfort In the purely linguistic sense, the notion of creating comfort is pretty much the same in one-to-one and group contexts. It is linked to the concept called […]
Teachers Stories: A Stint At A Secondary School
Teachers’ Stories: Teaching At A Secondary School It all started during one fine interview at a Dutch private secondary school. Without being qualified to teach children, my CELTA (Cambridge English […]