EVE: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
by Sue Leather Why EVE? It seems that the time is right for this kind of initiative. Good progress has been made already in the fight for parity for women […]
Interview with Nicholas Walker
By Sharyn Collins Hello, Nicholas, could you tell me about your background and how you got into EFL? I’m English, but I was born in Singapore. My father was in […]
Indie Authors and Publishers: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Julie Pratten While the debate about print books becoming extinct and digital taking over is still raging, for the time being, physical books are still very much with us […]
Media Bias and Critically Evaluating Information
By Tory Thorkelson In 2016, Vanessa Otero created a chart showing how biased various media sources available in the US were (see: http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/). While there was some disagreement about how […]
Where I Teach: South Korea
By Tory Thorkelson Where do you teach? A private University in Seoul, South Korea. According to the Complete University Guide, “[there are 43 national and almost 180 private universities and […]
Constructing a Rhizomatic Personal Learning Environment
By Nguyen Minh Trang Constructing a do-it-yourself website as a rhizomatic personal learning environment to promote learner independence, interdependence and self-motivation to convert case. The net generation With the rapid […]
Teaching Business English Courses Online
Teaching Business English Courses Online When I changed from classroom to online teaching, I thought I would be using much the same materials and methods as before, just on a […]
Mobile Learning ‘Book Review’
By Shaun Wilden Mobile Learning Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-420039-4 This slim volume of around 100 pages is all about helping teachers to come to terms with and exploit mobile […]
Where do you teach?
by Sharyn Collins Editor Dear readers, our readership has grown so much over the last couple of years and without doubt a great part of our popularity can be attributed […]
The ‘Painless’ Course Creation Cycle: Tips and Tricks from an EFL Veteran
Tory S. Thorkelson, M.Ed. Imagine being called into your Department Chair’s office three weeks before a new term begins. With all the real (and imaginary) reasons for this meeting going […]