The Native Speaker Legend
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 […]
Watching Young Learners at Work: From Practice to Principle
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 […]
Student made games
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 […]
Exemptions and credits to DELTA holders on related MA level courses
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 […]
CELTA and Technolology – With or Without it?
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 […]
Exemptions and credits to DELTA holders on related MA level courses
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 […]
Can Teachers Do Research?
<![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 […]
Are you a Good Language Learner?
<![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’ […]
N is for New Information
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. N is […]
Thinking about Discipline – Part 1
Having discipline problems? Which of these learners are your learners? Made with wordle.net – the words in the word cloud have been taken from http://www.disciplinehelp.com/ But why do students behave […]