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How to Teach English Infographic

This pretty infographic was originally spotted on the OUP ELT Global blog, who in turn found it on the Kaplan Blog. I reproduce it here for your interest and amusement and because it looks pretty.Frankly, I think the title is misleading. It doesn’t tell... (read more)
 

Long is good, good is bad, nice is worse, and ! is questionable

Sanette Tanaka, "Fancy Real-Estate Listing, Fancier Verbiage", WSJ 6/6/2013:Savvy real-estate agents know it's not just what you say. It's how long it takes you to say it.More-expensive homes go hand-in-hand with longer real-estate agents' remarksthe language... (read more)
 

Summary of BESIG Online Conference Session Nick Robinson: How (and why) to join a group of materials writers?

This session was delivered by Nick Robinson, who is one of the coordinators of the Materials Writing SIG (MaW SIG) – at impressively high speed due to technical difficulties taking over the first half of the session!The aim of the session was to give... (read more)
 

Rose Senior

Rose Senior is the author of many excellent articles on English teaching, as well as a brilliant book, The Experience of Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press). I recently invited her to write the introduction to my latest book, The ELT Daily Journal.... (read more)
 

Stories behind Words: box

2009 was a singular year in my life. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to stay home during the treatment. As I couldnt be in a real classroom, I moderated an online course for teachers. During my treatment, one of the participants of the course lost... (read more)
 
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