On creating a slick gap fill maker tool – with Maciej Szwarc
Interview with Maciej Szwarc, creator of Lesson Ninja. This web app enables foreign language teachers to create customized, engaging activities within seconds.
Teaching English to business professionals online – with Mike O’Malley
Check out this riveting interview with business English teacher, Mike O'Malley.
Dialects in the UK: In recognition of the many distinct varieties
Considerations of how British dialects were formed and modern-day 'dialect levelling' in the UK.
Should language teachers give free trial lessons to students?
Should language teachers give free trial lessons to students? A debate worth having.
The relationship between SLA research and second language pedagogy
Exploring the precarious relationship between SLA research and second language pedagogy.
Is teaching a vocation? – The destiny, journey and insecurities of one EFL teacher
In this post, I relive my own topsy-turvy journey in EFL and answer the question: "Is teaching a vocation?"
4 Awesome Dogme Lesson Plans
Check out four interesting and varied Dogme lesson plans.
Dogme ELT – Do ELT teachers’ best classes involve the fewest materials?
Is Dogme ELT really a methodology or a movement?
“Grammar Nonsense and What To Do about It”: Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley – Book Review
Book review. Grammar Nonsense and What to Do About it (by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley).
Teaching English as a non-native speaker: How I, as a “native”, view the situation
Teaching English as a non-native speaker - from the perspective of a "native".
