Feedback the Teacher is an exercise which is all about the students offering feedback to their teacher about the class in general. It's not for all classes or for all teachers, but if a teacher is serious about their job, it can provide invaluable help in making the...
The Callan Method is a system of learning English which is a form of the Audio-Lingual Method of teaching. The method relies on continual drilling through question and answer. In a 12 step program, beginner students are asked a series of questions and then give their...
Ellipsis (plural ellipses) is a punctuation mark or series of marks that usually show something is missing. For example, ellipsis: indicates an intentional omission of a word or words in a text at the end of a sentence, it indicates a trailing off into silence or an...
Word Frequency is listing words according to how popular they are in the language. The method of determining the list is by taking a corpus of language and simply counting the words in it and how often each one is used. This usually brings up the following as the...
Careers in TEFL or TESOL are common. Many teachers start out in TEFL as entry-level teachers in small schools around the world; some will stay a few years before going home and moving into a different field, but others will move on in TEFL. It is common assumption...
Trading Places is a great ice breaker activity and a lot of fun. It's also ideal for practicing questions. It's simple to run this activity and no preparation is needed which means it's great to know for those emergency situations in class! Pre-Teaching With the...
TEFL/TESOL in Kuwait Kuwait is a small but very cosmopolitan country with workers and expatriates from many different countries living there. There is a thriving EFL market for the right kind of teacher. Living Conditions Kuwait is not necessarily the most...
Born in Ukraine in 1909, he was taken to the United States (PA) as a child. A student in the Oriental Studies department, he received his bachelor's (1930), master's (1932), and doctoral (1934) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He began teaching at Penn in...
Greek is spoken by about 12 million people. The majority of these are in Greece and Cyprus whilst the Greek diaspora are generally bilingual. This article looks at the kinds of problems Greek as a mother tongue speakers have in learning English. Background In Greece...
Author: Jeremy Harmer Publisher: Pearson Longman ELT Details: paperback; 4th Edition; Pub. 2007 ISBN: 1405853115 This Longman Handbook for language teachers comes with DVD in its 4th edition. The book looks at various teaching approaches and discusses current ELT...
