TEFL Matters

In all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive present perfect continuous in the passive which is formally possible, the […]

Gifts for the Festive Season & New Year Welcome to our Seasonal Newsletter issue. The CELT Athens team send you our very best wishes for […]

Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much […]

Reposted from my CELT Athens blog  My new infographic Some time ago, I started trying to learn to make infographics and had an idea for […]

BI=Before Internet   Our collective memories get so easily altered with the advent and use of new technologies. It’s so common amongst people to resist […]

This is a response to many  readers and trainees who talk about the frequent frustration befalling newly (or not so “newly”…) trained teachers finding themselves […]

 “Life would be dull without creativity”, and “Creativity encourages risk taking”, Mr. Maley said in his talk at the launch of the most recent volume on […]

Bringing the glad tidings that my favourite animation tool seems to be coming back! Xtranormal was a hugely popular video making tool with hundreds of […]

I very often talk to teachers about online apps and great new tools and the standard question always is: “Is it free?'” And of course […]

Giulia Forsythe via Compfight In a recent end-of-course evaluation report,  one of our CELTA candidates suggested (complained is perhaps a better word) that her expectations of […]

Pre-Conference Events with the Special Interest Groups For me, the high point of the conference is always the Pre-Conference Day with my chosen Special Interest […]

IATEFL 2015 Once more, the time of the year for IATEFL International has come round. If you are going to be at IATEFL, please make […]