Oct 29
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Reframing the native-speaker debate: we need to give interlanguage its due

The assumption that being a native speaker of English makes you better able to teach it is becoming increasingly untenable. While this sh...

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Oct 29
3 min

Reframing the native-speaker debate: we need to give interlanguage its due

The assumption that being a native speaker of English makes you better able to teach it is becoming increasingly untenable. While this sh...

Oct 5
1 min

Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

In my recent TESOL Spain talk I talked about teachers' relationship to technology, our sense of identity and Marshall McLuhan's conceptio...

Sep 18
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Improve your writing with Google Docs and Grammarly

This tutorial shows how to use Google Docs and Grammarly to identify mistakes in your writing so that you can improve it dramatically. If...

Sep 8
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Create Dynamic Online Jigsaw Readings With Instagram Content

Find out how to use high quality images and texts from Instagram to create challenging and engaging online jigsaw reading tasks for group...

May 5
1 min

Teach less and review more

In his recent webinar on learning vocabulary Paul Nation pointed out that we can harness our students' fear of losing face for greater up...

May 4
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Paul Nation deserves our full attention

Before attending Paul Nation’s recent webinar entitled “What matters in vocabulary learning?” I had only a passing acquaintance with his w...

May 2
1 min

Zoom + Flipgrid = better speaking tasks for remote learning

By uploading recordings of pair or group conversations from Zoom we can easily expand the range of speaking tasks we set for our students...

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A friend of mine got me Nonviolent Communication for my birthday recently. Although it is occasionally off-putting in its earnestness, this book conveys the compelling premise that we should all pay more attention to the basic human needs that often get obscured by what we say explicitly. Maybe teachers would do well to read less on methodology and more on psychology?

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Reframing the native-speaker debate: we need to give interlanguage its due

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Reframing the native-speaker debate: we need to give interlanguage its due

Towards a cyborg pedagogy?

Improve your writing with Google Docs and Grammarly

Create Dynamic Online Jigsaw Readings With Instagram Content

Teach less and review more

Paul Nation deserves our full attention

Zoom + Flipgrid = better speaking tasks for remote learning

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