Many new CELTA holders, hundreds in fact each month, are out in the world looking for jobs! Online work offers many newly qualified teachers a good opportunity to get started, […]
Cohesion and coherence. They are often used interchangeably in everyday staffroom chat So what is the difference? In short: Cohesion is the network of surface-level linguistic links that connect sentences and clauses […]
Article by Dr Angelos Bollas Professional development is one of those phrases that teachers hear so often that it risks losing meaning. For many in ELT, it brings to mind […]
When we think about the role of a CELTA tutor, certain words immediately spring to mind: trainer, teacher, assessor, observer. These are all accurate and important descriptors. But one role […]
Oftentimes, you walk through a book exhibition looking at course books or browse through publisher web pages and need to make a quick decision regarding the selection of a course […]
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged’ that some structures are more trouble to acquire than others. A classic example is the Present Simple, which, according to morpheme acquisition research is […]
This must have happened to you, too. You are in a desperate hurry to get on with something and your friend, sister, husband or boss, start rabbiting on about completely unconnected […]
This is a summary of S.P.Corder’s chapter ‘Error Analysis’ (reference below) which contains all the basic terminology required for this area. Types of Errors Native speakers may produce errors (readily […]
Are you interested in following the Cambridge CELTA but are not sure if it will help you teach young pupils? In the past, the A in the CELTA acronym used to […]
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 […]