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Unfinished Business: how I failed as a Business English teacher (and why that matters)
Blog challenges are either super-exciting or super-awkward to respond to. This is both. It’s awkward and unsettling and difficult to re-live failures, and this is what the challenge is about. But at the
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The Flipped Classroom – an #ELTChat Summary
This is a summary of an #ELTChat that took place on the 24th April, 9pm BST. We discussed flipped classrooms in language teaching. If you’re keen to find out more about #ELTChat, visit the
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3 Unexpected Lessons From 1 Language Teaching Conference
Last year, my first IATEFL conference nearly killed me. This year I did it again. April is truly the cruelest of months for English teachers. If you want to know what I learned at
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Guerrilla Language Learning Buddy Groups: from Facebook to Captain Planet
Foreign language study is more people-oriented than other disciplines I know of. So it makes sense that students of one language spend time learning – and teaching – together. How do such language
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Fire Your Teachers If They Don’t Ask This Question
Tintin44 via Compfight It’s customary to exaggerate a little in the post headline. But not this time. I would find it hard to think of a more important question for learners. Here’s where I
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DIY language learning materials: a one-page cheat-sheet
Here’s my New Year present for all of you, language lovers! 2013 will surely be a great year for you. When it comes to learning a foreign language, this PDF cheat sheet may help.
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