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…
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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….
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By Gabriel Clark Let’s start this article with a bit of well-grounded research. According to John Hattie’s epic meta-study on factors that impact learning…
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Michael Garry Smout I have been using this activity for well over twenty years, but am really unsure of where it came from. I…
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Why Writing is So Terrifying and How to Make It Less So
By Nhu Quynh “I’m sorry miss, but I just can’t do it”. One of the students in my pre-IELTS class was not hesitant to…
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Last month I was talking to one of my students about a book he was reading. The teenager was eager to tell me about…
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To Teach Back Home or Not
by Tristan Cotterill. Currently in the United Kingdom (UK), the education system is facing a crisis point. There is a severe lack of teachers….
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Delivering Online Classes for Busy Professionals
By Lucy Nankivell Delivering online classes for busy professionals When I changed from classroom to online teaching, I thought I would be using much…
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‘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…
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Where I Teach in Ukraine
By Iryna Zuyenok Having graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukraine) 35 years ago, I have experienced all the jobs the awarded qualification allows…
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Recruiting and Selecting Teaching Staff: A Strategic Approach
By Jonathan Owen Teachers can make or break an educational institution. For this reason, the process used to recruit them is critical to a…
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Teaching Vocabulary in the EFL Classroom
by Scott Zimmermann, D.A. Vocabulary is paramount in the classroom. According to Jack C. Richards, “Vocabulary, of course, is basic to all the skills.”…
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Three Unlikely Helpers
by Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Many EFL teachers shudder when any of the three ominous figures of speech appear unannounced during class. These are…
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Interview with Elisabeth Bekes, EFL Teacher and So Much More!
By Sharyn Collins Elizabeth, you continue to have an extraordinary and fascinating life, could you tell me where it all began? I was born…
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by Sharyn Collins Editor Dear readers, our readership has grown so much over the last couple of years and without doubt a great part…
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The Seven Deadly Sins of the 0ne to 0ne Lesson, from the Point of View of a Learner
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The Nuances of Teaching Business English
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Useful Thoughts on Teaching Adults
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by Elizabeth Bekes Cuenca, Ecuador Book review on The PhD Writing Handbook by Desmond Thomas Palgrave September 2016 The opening scene of Sally Potter’s…
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by Rachel Boyce Learning with computers is nothing new… ………..as they have been used in language teaching since the 1980s, if not longer in…
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A Holistic Approach to Civil Engineering Teaching in China
By Peter Hughes I teach Civil Engineering in China at The Henan Polytechnic University (HPU). With a long history, it is the first mining…
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Athena Fund to Provide Laptops to 13,000 English Teachers in Israel
by Daphna Tamir Israel’s Athena Fund has launched a new program – Laptop for Every English Teacher in Israel – in which English teachers…
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Motivating our students
By Chuck Sandy Please Stop Talking About Motivation When we say someone is unmotivated, what we often mean is they are not doing what…
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How Vocabulary is Learned
Webb, S. & Nation, P. Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-440355-9 Review for EFL Magazine by Steve Hirschhorn, January 2018 How Vocabulary is Learned is…
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Interview with Peter Read, trainer in Business English
By Sharyn Collins Peter Read, LL.B, FCILA, CELTA is an English Teacher and Trainer with a background in ESP who has taught students with…
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Creativity on call: empowering learners’ autonomy
By Vasiliki Have you ever realized that some amazing things have happened completely unintentionally during our teaching practice, so spontaneously but yet so effectively…
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Teaching English is Just a Funny Old Game (of football)
By Paul Finnerty So, I’m an English teacher. I have been for seven years now. I also happen to be an absolute fanatic of…
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Mathematics: it’s the language that counts
By Tony Grice Can you speak mathematics? Some linguists claim that mathematics has the design features of a language. Equations are the equivalent of…
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What We Lose When We Ban Students, Countries
Enduring Lessons from a Welcome Center by Walter Fernando Balser, Ed.D. In the summer of 1999, I emerged from graduate school as a young…
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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…
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Lifting a fourth-grade language learner
By Fred Gamble According to Pellino (2012, para. 1), “Students with English as a second language (ESL) constitute a significant percentage of the population…
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“Comma knowledge”: Some points about punctuation in EFL
by Alex Moore A Quiz Can you match these eight sentences to their writers’ L1s? They were all written by either an Arabic, Chinese,…
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The Wiki as a Collaborative Tool: why to use it, how to use it.
By Rita Zeinstejer A wiki can be described as a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit, delete or…
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Sentence Structure with a Dash of Zombie
By Terry McLean As an English as an Additional Language (EAL) teacher, I find that many students struggle with the use of sentence variety….
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Beyond the “Square Mile”
By Peter Read Teaching Modern Business English in a rapidly changing global market – the need to adopt a practical approach. Teaching Modern Business…
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Reconceptualising Authenticity for English as a Global Language
by Richard S. Pinner 2016 Multilingual Matters Taking a position on the authenticity continuum Book review by Erzsébet Békés I came across the issue…
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Some Observations on Engaging in Self-Observation
Christopher L. Miller A Challenge Embraced A few years ago Dr. Thomas Farrell gave a plenary talk at the KOTESOL International Conference. Among the…
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Post Academy Life
By Troy Nahumko Open a job search for ESL job openings around the world at any time of the year and a sunny southern…
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In Search of Christmas Present, Past and Future
By Philip Briggs Christmas comes; Christmas goes. And if you’re reading this in January or March, it’s gone. In which case, you’re now existing…
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Academic Writing Buddy
A proposal to establish an international academic writing buddy system for mentoring and being mentored, with a view to getting published. Comments from teachers…
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Planning a Successful Demo Lesson
Demo Lesson A demo lesson can be nightmare, especially if you are a shiny, new teacher trying to land your first job. Some people…
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A US Peace Corps Volunteer’s TEFL Experience in The Republic Macedonia
Being a Peace Corps volunteer in Macedonia (FYROM) and working in the education sector has been a one-of-a-kind, transformative experience. The Peace Corps is…
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Interview with Ken Collins
Ken, we come from the same city of Newcastle upon Tyne England, share the same surname and have known each other you since you…
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Writing Drama for English Language Learners
By Scott Granville Film and television shows have universal appeal as an entertainment source in popular culture. Yet while online video content is more…
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Teachers Stories: The Secret Vault
As I always tell my students and clients, stories are magic carpet rides. They fly us to any destination, allow us to explore endless…
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Recently teenagers have been accused of being unable to socialise face to face, think and even make eye contact. Parents and adults in general put…
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Successful Group Work, 13 Activities to Teach Teamwork Skills
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Extensive reading has been the focus of a great deal of academic attention since Bamford and Day first published their ground-breaking work, ‘Extensive Reading…
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The Wolf of Upwork
By Matt Cates Dear Readers, Clearly I don’t know what I’m doing. Most EFL teachers aren’t in this for the big bucks, but at…
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The Dvolver Phenomenon
By Charles McKinney, IV When I started my English-teaching career in South Korea, my Korean co-teacher discovered an interesting website from a teacher-training workshop…
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How to create content for online ESL lessons
by Kris Jagasia Dear Teachers! My name is Kris Jagasia. My colleague, James Heywood and I have been creating content for our online ESL…
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by Tristan Cotterill As a teacher, it is best for us to use a range of techniques to keep our students’ attention, and for…
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A Day in the Life of an EFL Teacher
By Paul Finnerty The fact that it’s mid-October and I’ve just got back from swimming in the sea rather sums up why I chose…
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Interview with Guillaume Catella
The founder of Bilingua, a language exchange and learning companion app, connecting learners based on similar interests or personalities. By Sharyn Collins Hello Guillaume….
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Where are we going wrong with teaching reading skills?
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What I learnt from Jeremy Harmer
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The five guiding principles of vocabulary learning
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By Leticia Sales As with most schools in Brazil, the one where I am a pedagogical coordinator has a teacher’s meeting (or branch) meeting…
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By Corinna Keefe I was standing in front of the class, writing on the blackboard. We were playing a word game in our weekly…
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How to Create Great Materials for you ESL Classroom
by Kia DeKou When I first started teaching over 20 years ago, the company I worked for was relatively new and didn’t have any…
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Seeing The Dog Alive
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How to develop and thrive as a teacher without taking CELTA or TESOL
By Ahmad Zaytoun When experience and qualifications are discussed in English language teaching, TEFL, CELTA, TESOL, and DELTA instantly spring to mind. However, the…
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Integrating Global Issues in the Creative English Language Classroom
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Reconsidering the Role of the Teacher
by Michael Fletcher As a zealous, overly-confident, but ultimately well-intentioned newly qualified teacher, I cherished the responsibility of attending parent’s evening, primarily due to…
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by Steve Hirschhorn In Europe, pronunciation teaching prior to the late 19th c relied largely on imitation along with approximations derived from spelling and…
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No Write, No Grumble: Teaching Students that Change Can Start with Them
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Phil Wade Interviews: Thomas S C Farrell
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