Finding The Comfort Zone
Finding the comfort zone How do you sleep? My position of choice starts with the following steps: 1. Stack two pillows just right. 2. Lie on my right side, […]
What’s Your Teaching Identity? Book Review
What’s Your Teaching Identity? Book Review Why do English teachers need to have a fully-fledged identity both as professionals and as members of the human race? How does a strong […]
Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets
Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets Introduction Vocabulary acquisition is an essential aspect of language teaching and learning. Quizlet is an app used to learn and practice new vocabulary. […]
How to Actively Engage Learners in Storytelling
How to actively engage learners in storytelling Storytelling is a teaching tool used with great success in any classroom, let alone the foreign language classroom. Students are fascinated and give […]
Implementing Extensive Reading in the Classroom
Implementing Extensive Reading in the Classroom South Korea has become a hub for EFL in the past 20 or so years. Despite recent indications that this pulsating industry is on […]
Web Tools for Teaching English Online
Web Tools for Teaching English Online When I began teaching online full-time in 2010 I remember trying to pack teaching, blogging, materials creation, social media and email marketing all in […]
Book Review: Text Chat Activities
Text Chat Activities A few months ago, I received an email from Mark Oliver who was keen for me to review his self-published book entitled “Text Chat Activities: A resource […]
Presenting New Language Through Action Songs
Presenting New Language Through Action Songs As long ago as 1968, the language expert and author Julian Dakin wrote: “If songs and rhymes are well taught, they are seldom forgotten. […]
Teaching English Using TED Talks
Teaching English Using TED Talks We EFL teachers today are indeed a very fortunate group of people. Due in large part to the Internet, there are a plethora of easily […]
An ‘Out Of The Blue’ Lesson Plan
An ‘Out Of The Blue’ Lesson Plan We all have to cover for our colleagues from time to time. And sometimes it happens with only a moment’s notice. I had […]