Oct
31
I’ve got a great roundup of what’s going on in the World of TEFL blogs this month. Enjoy… The Easiest Speaking Game in the World – Kalinago English Dogme vs CLIL – TEFL Tastic Adam’s adventures in mind mapping – Year in the life of an English teacher Dogme in the mind of a teacher: …
Oct
30
Kalinago English The inaugural ELT World TEFL website of the month award goes to the incredibly popular blog created by freelance teacher Karenne Sylvester. This wonderful blog is written specifically for English teachers who lean towards using technology in their classrooms. Karenne’s blog has mastered what many aspire to in that it has a real …
Oct
30
Richard Byrne at ‘Free Technology for Teachers‘ has put together a great list of things for teachers to do this year. From building a blog / wiki to utilising social networks, the list comes with instructions on how to implement each in your classrooms. Click here to go to the list. Sphere: Related Content
Oct
28
How to Fix Our Schools: A Manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, and Other Education Leaders Washington, DC, United States: As educators, superintendents, chief executives and chancellors responsible for educating nearly 2 1/2 million students in America, these people know that the task of reforming the country’s public schools begins with us. It is their …
Oct
27
One topic that’s causing some heated debate over on the teacher training forum is the methodology of Dogme. This has been a topic that’s divided people since it was first mentioned by Scott Thornbury in the 1990s. Many, myself included, question the practicability of a teaching style based entirely on spontaneity. As nice as it …
Oct
25
I can’t even hazard a guess as to what this might be, which is why I’m going to have the cold cow in west in special grade picks, which I hear is delicious at this time of year. Click on the image for a clearer view. Sphere: Related Content
Oct
21
An ESL teacher in Saigon wrote to Antonio Graceffo at the Foreign Policy Journal: “As you may have worked out already, the pronunciation of Vietnamese ESL learners is not great. I am looking at ways to try and improve the pronunciation of the learners at my school.” “As a linguist, do you have any insights …
Oct
20
You can forget “the Queen’s English”, a term that dates back to 1592 and is snobbily defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the English language as regarded as under the guardianship of the Queen; hence, standard or correct English”. It’s “Streetsmart English” or perhaps more accurately, “Self-reliance English” that is increasingly the need in …
Oct
19
Mmmm… I think I’ll go for the fresh fruit sand.
Oct
19
Here’s a nice link to a discussion of the top ten inventions we’re likely to see this century; good for discussing the future. Each invention has an accompanying video clip. Sphere: Related Content