This is a BBC Radio 4 documentary by Rory Bremner on how ADHD affects adults as well as children and what it can be like for all involved. Compelling listening and required material for anyone involved in education! The one... Continue Reading →
This post has come out of a challenge posted by Marisa Constantinides on TEFL Matters: namely "to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of... Continue Reading →
A relatively simple way of dealing with multiple choice cloze tasks in the classroom: Take one multiple choice cloze task, possibly one like this FCE style task found via a google image search, or just one from your coursebook. Before... Continue Reading →
Spotted on Carla Arena's Collablogatorium - Superlame! is a tool that lets you upload photos (currently only from your PC - no URL grabs) and add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and suchlike. With some creative use of the speech bubble boxes,... Continue Reading →
OK, so that is a bit of an oversimplification.... but it does appear as though another nail is being hammered into the coffin of Universal Grammar (UG). This has all come out of a recent research paper in the science... Continue Reading →
This is a new tech tool, which I first spotted in use on the Economist. It has a similar feel to it as the visual thesaurus, in the way that ideas and topics are linked together, and expand out of... Continue Reading →
I've been looking into language testing and language exams quite a lot recently, which is maybe why a recent piece on the "Click" podcast from the BBC caught my attention (listen to the segment here). The report is on the... Continue Reading →
The visual thesaurus was pointed out to me some time ago as a great alternative to the standard online dictionary search, and also as a great way to help learners broaden their vocabulary, particularly with higher level students who have... Continue Reading →
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