ELT World

Alex Case has just written about graded readers and how to effectively review them, and it brought up something that has been a pet hate of mine for many years. I replied in some detail to his post, but I’ll go over the main problem I have with readers again here (thus plagiarizing myself). Basically, I [...] […]

The ever wonderful Martin McMorrow has just shared the following statistics concerning the demographic profile of Celta candidates on the ELT World forum: 26% of candidates were over 40, 10% of these were over 50 and 2.5% over 60 68% of candidates had English as their first language and this means for 32% English is not [...] […]

I’m a dosser. I’m lazy. I procrastinate. Just ask Alex Case, who has been waiting for me to answer his interview questions for at least 6 months now. If I can get away with not doing something, I will. The one thing I truly have any energy for in life is the pursuit of avoiding [...] […]

Another phenomenal guest piece by Will Pearson, this time using his own handouthub.com as inspiration. Intelligent handout matching, where an online database of TEFL/ESL handouts are matched for use with leading English course books, is where TEFL/ESL supplementation is heading in the future. This article highlights the case study of Handout Hub, which match […]

It’s headlines like this that make you feel like you’re fighting a losing battle. English-language worksheets featuring bloody Ronald McDonald, extolling the virtues of fast food, is being used by some Swedish schools, ‘to the chagrin of educators, outraging some parents, and apparently ‘unbeknownst’ to the company‘ according to newspaper Svenska Dagsbladet. […]