Tag: English Language Teaching
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Classroom Observations: A how-to guide
Classroom obvervations can be challenging. This guide describes a series of steps that can help you to plan, conduct and reflect on a visit to a language classroom.
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From individual to relational resilience in ELT
Research on language teacher resilience has tended to focus too much on the ‘individual self’ at the expense of relational understandings. Is it time to rethink this?
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CLIL and Immersion: Some differences
This post discusses differences between CLIL and bilingual immersion programmes.
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How can complexity inform ELT? Diane Larsen-Freeman has some ideas
Yesterday, I blogged about this symposium that aims to explore the ‘connectivities’ of ELT, i.e, the ways in which ELT bridges languages, cultures and disciplinary boundaries. The more I think of the symposium topic, the more interesting it seems; but at the same time, I am becoming increasingly conscious that ELT theory has perhaps failed…
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Language testing for no reason
What happened when the school administrators decided to introduce a new exam without asking anyone if it was needed…
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Innovative writing in English language teacher education and development
Update 2016 The special issue described below has been published and can be accessed from the link below. ELDED 20: Innovative Writing in English Language Teacher Education and Development; Table of Contents I hope you enjoy reading the articles as much as I did. Call for papers Of all the calls for papers that find…
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Tissue rejection in language education
This post discusses what might happen when language teaching methods that are known to be effective in one context are transplanted into a different educational setting.
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Non-Native Speakers of English need not apply
As the profession moves away from obsolete beliefs about the perceived advantages of ‘nativeness’, the University of Athens continues to discriminate.
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IATEFL 2015: A retrospective
During IATEFL 2015, I made extensive notes about the sessions that I attended, as I had planned to write up summaries for this blog. It seems, however, that my own recollections of, and reactions to, many sessions have become weaker in the weeks since the conference. However, there’s already quite a lot of material available online, including video…