Motivation and Language Testing
Motivation and Testing Are your learners bogged down with tests? Does this cause a drop in motivation in your language class? Language learning can be a joy for many students. […]
English Teaching in Japan: My Experience
English Teaching in Japan: My Experience When I started pondering what I could share about teaching English in Japan, I felt uneasy. My story is experienced within and limited by […]
Teacher Talk Acts, Not Teacher Talk Time
Teacher talk acts, not teacher talk time Student Centred Learning. Buzzword de rigueur. It’s a principle that, of course, I wholeheartedly endorse, and I travel around the country talking about […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Chris Ozog
Phil Wade Interviews: Chris Ozog 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 for […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Elena Matveeva
Phil Wade Interviews: Elena Matveeva Elena Matveeva has been teaching English in Russia since 1998. She has taught English courses at University, given private classes to students of different age […]
Special report on FAB8 Kyoto
FAB8 Kyoto FAB8 – the latest in a series of international neuroELT conferences dedicated to neuroscience and English Language Teaching – was held at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan from […]
One-to-One: Promoting Learner Autonomy
One-to-one: Promoting Learner Autonomy Have you ever had the feeling that there’s not much left for you to do but watch your student’s rapid growth resulting from his or her […]
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom ‘The map is not the territory: we all have different maps of the world.’ This phrase used by NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioners nicely […]