Are your students learning anything?

Thanks to all those who voted in the May poll:

The disussion on this issue continues over on the ELT World forums. A new poll will be up and running soon…

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Best Tips for TEFLers

If you’re looking for the best TEFL tips These can be found TEFL Tips. This is one of the new projects started by naturegirl321, whom you’ll be familiar with from the ELT World forums. In her own words:
‘I’ve been teaching for a while now and try as often as possible to help out people new [...]

English language mistakes you love to hate

‘There’s no such thing as a mistake’ as too bloody many teacher trainers have tried to tell me. ‘Bugger off’ is a common unspoken rebuttle. There are mistakes, common ones and really damned annoying they are, too.
As for my pet hates, the effect Australian soap operas have had on intonation patterns of the younger generations [...]

A New TEFL Poll

After the phenomenal popularity of the last poll on health insurance, I decided to turn to my beloved forum members for ideas on what to poll next. It was Justme who came up with what I consider to be an absolute belter of a question:
Do you think your students are learning anything?
I genuinely look forward [...]

Does your TEFL Employer Provide Medical Insurance?

Thanks to all of you who voted in the poll on the blog and on the forums. Read a write up on this in the June issue of the ELT World Journal.

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20 Reasons not to Live in Dubai

Way back in September of last year, Das Sheikh started up a lively thread over on the UAE forum: 20 reasons not to live in Dubai. From shopping, to nightlife and dangerous driving, the thread covered some interesting aspects of life in Dubai, and at the time caused some heated debate. As this post [...]

March 1st: Horizons Issue 3

Issue 3 of the (ELT) World renowned journal will be hot off the printers on 1st March, and it’s an action packed issue…

What Would Motivate you to Take a New Job? by members of the forum (general discussion)
Interview:Teacher Reflections, Global Connections
Teaching Collocations [...]

TEFL Lifestyles abroad

The lifestyles abroad forum has proven to be a very popular addition to the ELT World forums since its introduction just over a month ago. Here are some of the topics raising much discussion.
The Must See/Do list for where you are
Every place has a list of places and things one must see/do when visiting. Most [...]

Teaching without Borders

Last month I highlighted the excellent Teaching without Borders blog: Teacher Reflections, Global Connections, explaining what a great idea I thought it was to reflect on the different teaching experiences of the different countries of the contributors. I’m delighted that Jennifer Uhler and Jeff Mattison have taken the time and considerable effort to talk [...]

DELTA Discourse advice

A very informative and interesting thread has opened up on the general discussion forum concerning the DELTA. The ever giving and knowlegdeable mmcmorrow has offered the following advice on those thinking of doing an assignment on discourse:

This is a bit of advice for an assignment / lesson on ‘discourse’. My experience has been that this [...]

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