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On the seventh day of Geekmas, some blogger gave to me: seven simple statements Welcome to the teflgeek Christmas celebration! Themed around the classic Christmas carol – but going backwards, mostly because it’s more like a countdown that way: 12 blogs Read More...
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On the eighth day of Geekmas, some blogger gave to me: eight talks worth watching Welcome to the teflgeek Christmas celebration! Themed around the classic Christmas carol – but going backwards, mostly because it’s more like a countdown that way: 12 blogs Read More...
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At first glance, the free-wheeling Dogme approach to teaching and formal assessment do not sit well together. Rather they would appear to occupy opposite ends of the spectrum, representing as they do either “ winging it elevated to an art form ” or rigid Read More...
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The wiki can be an often overlooked teacher tech tool. The piece below is (as you might be able to tell!) an adapted version of an assignment submitted for the Technology & Language Learning module of my MA . This article provides an overview of the background Read More...
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One of the contributors to the debate on student fees in UK universities raised an interesting point the other week. Roger Moss, in breaking down the fees students pay when compared to what they get, calculated that they paid approximately £92 per seminar. Read More...
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Simon Thomas answers the question “What causes ESL students to make speaking and writing errors? “ quite comprehensively in a recent blog post at efl-resource.com . He looks at the differences between “mistakes” (lack of knowledge or understanding) and Read More...
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This was the question posed the other week on my MA discussion boards: ”Based on your teaching experience, write down the criteria you think are essential for language learning.” And it’s a good question. In many respects the ultimate teaching question Read More...
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A fact that was brought home the other day when a training seminar got rescheduled because half the projected attendees didn’t have Interactive Whiteboard technology available to them….. So here’s a nice post from Vicky Saumell’s Educational Technology Read More...
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The Voxy Blog has an interesting infographic for teaching and teacher development, examining the question: “ Are Flashcards an Effective Learning Tool?” . I suspect most YL teachers (especially those at Primary level) are thinking “well duh” at this point. Read More...
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A colleague of great experience in both TEFL and the UK education system, and whose opinion I greatly respect, once asserted that TEFL was at the forefront of educational experimentation and research, formenting new pedagogical techniques and ideas and Read More...
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If you’ve had time to look at recent posts on this blog, you’ll have noticed a series of “first lesson” ideas and activities… after all, it’s September, we’ve all got “back-to-school-itis”! Stepping back from the plethora of great teaching ideas to fill Read More...
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I spotted this one on a post on the TeachingEnglish | British Council facebook page – who in turn spotted it on the Voxy Blog . The infographic below comes out of the work of Mark Prensky and his concepts of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants – and Read More...
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I’m not very up on twitterquette. I’m still not entirely certain that (a) I know what I’m doing, (b) I know what I should be doing, (c) I know what everybody else is doing on Twitter. My experiences thus far have been slightly confusing, but really quite Read More...
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I have no idea where this one came from…. Well I do. It’s a dream fragment. The other day I woke up, went back to sleep and woke up again to remember a fragment of a dream in which I’d been (OK – this is a really quite pathetic admission) attending a Read More...
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This is an entry for everyone currently working at an ELT summer school somewhere in the world! It’s not always easy and there’s a lot of hard work – hopefully this post will help out a bit! I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy my summer school experiences Read More...
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