One of my favorite shows was The Sopranos, a tale of modern American mob life. In one episode Tony Soprano's right hand man, Christopher Moltisanti, has to sit an exam which it would be impossible for him to pass. The solution? Get a bright college kid, forge some...
Cooperative Learning is a teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different abilities, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Although cooperative learning takes place within teams of students it is...
Russian is spoken by over 150 million people, mainly in Russia itself and the countries of the former USSR. It is part of the Slavonic branch of the Indo-European language family and as such is very different indeed from English. This article looks at those...
The American Language Centers are a chain of schools in Morocco.
Another story today of someone who lost a healthy lot of money by paying an agent to find them work... and the agent did nothing. In today's Guardian news paper is the sobering story of a teacher who paid [currconvert base_curr="GBP" base_amount="320"] to an agency...
Tagalog is a language spoken in the Philippines. One variant is Filipino.
The language spoken predominantly in the Philippines. It is a "prestige" version of Tagalog and alongside English one of the national languages. The video shows a few basic phrases (greetings and suchlike) in Filipino.
A number of students have difficulties producing the /θ/ and /ð/ sounds found in words like: think - /θɪŋk/ thought - /θɔːt/ threw - /θruː/ this - /ðɪs/ that - /ðæt/ those - /ðəʊz/ Note that the main difference between these sounds is that one is voiced and the other...
Voiced and Voiceless (sometimes Unvoiced) describe the two different ways we can make sounds in our mouths. The basic difference is this: voiced sounds occur when the vocal chords vibrate voiceless sounds occur when the vocal chords are still An Example of Voiced...
TEFL/TESOL in Iraq The recent turbulent history of Iraq is well known. However, for the past few years the country has been trying to rebuild and part of that process has involved education including English language teaching. The American Embassy in Baghdad, for...
