Some Ideas on Enhancing Guest Speaker Sessions
By John Allan It sounds simple. The syllabus calls for guest speakers in the classroom. Inviting experts into your classroom is a great idea!…
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How to Use Poems in EFL Teaching
By Tony Penston This is an example of how to use a popular poem to engage students and improve pronunciation using old-fashioned but effective…
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Teaching Mixed Ability and Multicultural Classes
By Pola Papadopoulou In an ideal world, all students in a classroom would have the same abilities when it came to learning, the same…
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Reflection as an act of sharing and caring
By Vasiliki Lismani “Sharing is caring”. You might think “What a cliché!” but, as teachers we know that this is (or at least should…
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The ‘Proper’ Use(s) of Journals
by Tory Thorkelson Now that I have your attention, I would like to share some thoughts and my experience with using journals in my…
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Media Bias and Critically Evaluating Information
By Tory Thorkelson In 2016, Vanessa Otero created a chart showing how biased various media sources available in the US were (see: http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/). While…
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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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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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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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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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