This Thursday (14th November 2013), I'll be giving a webinar in conjunction with the British Council's "Teaching English" website. The session is going to focus on Writing with Exam Classes, but most of it is equally applicable outside an exam... Continue Reading →
The nice people at the Really Learn English site very kindly contacted me back in August as this site had been nominated for their annual blog awards. Unfortunately, and owing to the arrival of "Language Acquisition Research Subject Number 3",... Continue Reading →
Today I gave a presentation at the APPI / British Council BritLit 10th Anniversary celebrations in Coimbra. You can see the presentation slides below - and in due course I'm planning to do a you tube 15 minute version of... Continue Reading →
Not a teflgeek competition I hasten to add, but a competition sponsored by the Disabled Access Friendly Blog. If you are a budding materials designer / ELT writer - then this competition will be good way to get a great... Continue Reading →
What’s the difference between a VLE and a LMS? Nothing – apparently. There was some confusion over the terms and whether there was a difference between them or not, whether they might represent the difference between synchronous (live interaction) and... Continue Reading →
Like the cuckoo heralding spring, the first #ELTChat of the year has arrived. As many teachers around the world are getting ready for their first lessons with new classes, this chat aimed at sharing ideas and strategies for starting things off on... Continue Reading →
All this year, International House have been running events and competitions to celebrate their 60th anniversary - regular readers may remember the IHTOC60 (IH Teachers Online Conference) back in May and "The Tai Chi of Reading". During the Online Conference,... Continue Reading →
Here's another interesting infographic from the Voxy Blog, based on data from the US State Department, looking at how hard other languages are for native English speakers to learn. Clearly, and as they point out, there are a number of caveats... Continue Reading →
The ELT Journal has just released a back catalogue of articles published in their "Key Concepts in ELT" series, available as 48 separate pdf downloads. Anyone who is thinking about doing, or already in the middle of, a DELTA or... Continue Reading →
