John Healy’s New Company Helps Teachers Beat TOEFL Speaking
Today’s guest is John Healy. I chat to John about his career in IT prior to begging to teach English. We talk also about…
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TOEFL Teaching: Why Your Students Are Not Getting Higher Scores
Whatever a student’s ability, if they are unfamiliar with the strategies required to perform well at a particular examination, they will not do their…
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American, British, and Euro-English
Compared to other Indo-European languages, English grammar is rather uncomplicated. Verb conjugation by person, for instance, is virtually nonexistent; and unlike in German and…
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Connected Speech: What Happens During Ordinary, Spontaneous Speech?
“A word is not just the sum of its individual sounds; just as connected speech is not just the sum of its individual words.”…
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Useful Tips and Resources for Teaching Phrasal Verbs
By Sama Alkhalili Whether you teach ESL in classrooms or privately, you know that phrasal verbs can be a challenge to learn. Not only…
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Why I Wrote ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’
by Ken Paterson Step back a little. Listen to the conversations around you (in any language). You’ll soon be aware of a kind of…
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Does EFL Have an In-Class Listening Strategy?
By Allistair Elliott “Listening is the most critical communication skill”. Harmer on listening (briefly) Let’s look at what some of the heavy hitters in…
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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)…
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Why You Should Use Laptops in Your Classroom
By Dana Mizrahi Junior High School Principal and English Teacher, Hadassim Youth Village In January 2018, Israel’s Athena Fund launched its new program, Laptops…
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Mathematics: it’s the language that counts
By Tony Grice Can you speak mathematics? Some linguists claim that mathematics has the design features of a language. Equations are the equivalent of…
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