On the occasion of the International Day of Peace on the 21st of September, I would like to link to a short article I wrote some time ago after a presentation at a Conference on the island of Crete about three years ago (2006). At that time, I had promised […]
Much has been recently said and written about the divide between teachers of English (or of any other language) native vs non-native and, clearly, this is a discriminatory divide that […]
This post is based on three activities on video with a young class in their first year of English videotaped as part of a training project for a course on […]
Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much preoccupation with accuracy and create […]
Ofqual, the exams regulator of the UK government, has confirmed that Cambridge ESOL’s Delta qualification for teachers is at the same level as a Master’s degree or a professional diploma […]
In a recent end-of-course evaluation report, one of our CELTA candidates suggested (complained is perhaps a better word) that her expectations of a higher grade on the CELTA course were not […]
Save yourself some credits from your M.A. by following a DELTA course! You will benefit by getting your theoretical background, which is what M.A.’s are for, but you will also […]
<![CDATA[Research and what teachers have to do with it, whether they should be doing it and, if so, how, has been a topic often discussed on #ELTchat on Twitter, a weekly discussion of teachers meeting online to talk about a topic of their choice. I help moderate this online discussion […]
<![CDATA[ In this post-method era, when so many approaches and methods to language teaching have come and gone, where reflective teachers are no longer thinking in terms of which ‘label’ […]
This is the first of a series of posts intended to introduce some basic concepts of Discourse Analysis and to illustrate them in a fun, if possible, way Definition & […]