The Need for Cultural Training for Remote EFL Teachers
As English becomes more prevalent in the global business arena, learning English is likewise becoming more important for students worldwide to achieve. This need has created a whole new venue […]
Experiential/Hands-on Learning in TEFL
Experiential/hands-on learning has long been proclaimed by educators including myself as a fundamental factor in setting children up to have a lifelong love of learning and to perform better academically. […]
Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy
A collection of instructed second language acquisition studies Masatoshi Sato & Shawn Loewen (Eds.) New York, NY: Routledge 358 pages ISBN-10: 0815392532 ISBN-13: 978-0815392538 Instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) is a “subdiscipline […]
Language Coaching in the 21st Century
by Gabriela Kovács This article aims to provide an overview of language coaching today and clarify its role in EFL. There is a buzz in the EFL industry, which can […]
Interview with Steve Hirschorn
by Sharyn Collins 40 years teaching and training, specialist in the history of ELT methodology, mentor to countless teachers and trainers, still innovating and poking the traditional ELT bear! […]
Break Free From the Pitfalls of Acquiring English
by David Perrodin The symbolism used by the Greek philosopher Plato to describe our illusions of the world in “The Allegory of the Cave” focus on the fact that the […]
Book Review: Language for Teaching Purposes
by Elizabeth Bekes Book Review Emma Riordan: Language for Teaching Purposes Bilingual Classroom Discourse and the Non-Native Speaker Language Teacher 2018, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71005-1_1 “This book examines the spoken language […]
Where Are We Going Wrong with Teaching Reading Skills?
By Mark Bartholomew Past and Present? – Teaching Techniques Do you remember reading classes in English, Spanish, or whatever foreign language you were studying, where the text was too difficult […]
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No Article in their L1
Teaching the Article to EFL Learners with No L1 Articles occur more frequently than any other word in the English language (“Word Frequency Data”). Unfortunately, however, they remain a persistent […]
The Importance of Phonetics and Phonology in the Teaching of Pronunciation
The Importance of 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 […]