Foreign language skills may not always be required, but the benefits multilinguals bring to organizations are real — especially now that the market is getting […]
How do you increase a child’s reading fluency? It’s a question that seems to have an easy answer. One common response is that you give […]
Another ‘making things up as a go along’. This time in my IELTS Teens class. Topic: Environment and the natural world Context: We’d just done […]
EFLtalks, talks for teachers, in keeping with the idea of producing new, creative and innovative methods of providing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to EFL teachers […]
Posted Jan 4, 2016 Are there controversial topics that you want to teach, but you do not know how? Do you think your students might […]
By Adam Simpson Posted on January 3, 2016 by Adam It’s 2016, and what better way to start the new year than with a […]
WELL, EXCUSE ME! I made the mistake today of commenting on a colleague’s Facebook post, an English teacher from Russia, mentioning that the expression she […]
Having been in the business of English teaching for 12 years now, you can imagine how often I see and hear the word fluency. Everyone wants […]
by Jason R. Levine What does it take to become fluent? The Internet is teeming with suggestions, instructions, and procedures for how to speak fluent English. […]
The Learning Age, a new kind of age of discovery, requires a similar sort of basic navigational tools in order to keep going and to […]