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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Using Drawings to Help Explain Grammar
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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Immediate or Delayed Error Correction? Fix learners’ mistakes
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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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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5 things that my students and I have learnt from Pollyanna
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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