My Favorite Icebreaker Activities for New University Classes
by Tory Thorkelson As someone who used various versions of Find Someone Who to warm up my classes at the beginning of my career, I am constantly trying to come […]
Prewriting Activities for EFL Academic-Writing Classes
Prewriting Activities for EFL Academic Writing Classes Academic writing is not an easy skill to master, and yet it is the most important skill needed in an academic context (Alexander […]
Exploring the Trolley Problem in ELT Classes
Exploring the Trolley Problem in ELT Classes The trolley problem is a concept often used in philosophy and ethics courses. If you haven’t heard of it before, it basically works […]
Tools and Tips to Help Your Students Write an A+ Essay/Research Paper
Tory S. Thorkelson, M.Ed. More and more students are being asked to write undergraduate papers and yet, even where writing classes are offered, there is never enough time to cover […]
The Path to Pain-Free Speaking Exams
by Wayne Finley Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d copy and paste from […]
Confessions of a ‘LAZ(Z)Y’ University Professor
By Tory Thorkelson Early on in my teaching career, I recall a colleague storming into my noisy middle school EFL classroom in Japan and yelling at my co-teacher because our […]
How to Make Conversation Classes More Meaningful for Your Students
By Tory Thorkelson Just like that book about how Kindergarten teaches you everything important about life, much of what I do and how I do it in the speaking and […]
Where I Teach – Henan Polytechnic University
by Peter Hughes I teach at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU) in China. It is a beautiful campus, with Lotus flower lakes, rivers with black swans, hidden woods and peaceful parks. […]
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. […]
Teaching Exam Listening
Teaching Exam Listening For learners preparing to take Cambridge exams in Italy, listening is notoriously the most difficult skill. This is backed up by their own admissions and the usually-less-than-borderline […]