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• Funny ELT illustrations

  By Pete on June 5, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  I picked up some interesting throw-outs from the British Council library here in Thailand. I’ve been flicking through Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language by Christine Nuttall (1996) this week. It’s clear, well-organised and has lots of practical activities… Read More ›

• Flappy Drills – ‘Class, say after me…’

  By Pete on June 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  In this latest guest post, CELTA Trainer Nicky Salmon offers some tips for drilling pronunciation. I watch a lot of teachers doing drills to focus on pronunciation. Picture yourself drilling the following- Teacher: OK class, listen….vegetable, vegetable Students: Vegetable Teacher:… Read More ›

• Assessment Capable Learners in the primary classroom

  By Pete on May 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  In this guest post Kirsten Anne shares some great advice on encouraging self-assessment in the primary classroom.  I am a primary school teacher and currently work in a year 3 classroom.  My students are between 7 and 8 years of age and… Read More ›

• Quizlet Teacher account – worth it?

  By Pete on May 29, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  I’ve been using Quizlet in class for a while. This term I’m getting to grips with it a bit more as part of a project for my MA. Huh, Quizlet? Quizlet is a site which allows you to create your own… Read More ›

• Classroom silence and digital natives

  By Pete on May 8, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Svetlana Kandybovich recently wrote a post about allowing students thinking time. It’s full of useful ideas for the classroom and well worth a read. Something else worth reading is ‘The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World’ by… Read More ›

• Problems with images in ELT materials

  By Pete on May 7, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  Images in ELT coursebooks are often ambiguous. What might seem a fairly obvious depiction of an act or concept to us may be perceived as something completely different to our learners. In an interesting, small-scale study, Hewings (1991) asked a… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: Tomlinson’s text-driven approach

  By Pete on May 6, 2017 • ( 24 )

  

  In Developing Materials for Language Teaching (2013) Tomlinson introduces a text-driven approach to materials development. He goes into quite a bit of detail regarding text selection, offers a suggested framework for the approach and provides a practical example (pages 99-114)…. Read More ›

• IATEFL 2017: Does feedback work?

  By Pete on April 8, 2017 • ( 6 )

  

  A summary of Loraine Kennedy’s main points from the talk ‘In one ear and out the other: does feedback work?’ You can access the session here (again, won’t embed). Orientation This talk was specifically about in-service feedback for teachers, not… Read More ›

• IATEFL 2017: Developing teacher talk

  By Pete on April 6, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve just watched Jamie Keddie’s talk entitled ‘Developing Teacher Talk’. I was excited about this one. I’m a fan of Jamie’s site and I recently watched his TEDx talk On Videotelling. Here’s a link to the talk (can’t embed again)…. Read More ›

• IATEFL 2017: Integrating pronunciation

  By Pete on April 4, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  I just watched a good talk from Mark McKinnon and Nicola Meldrum called ‘Making pronunciation an integral part of your classroom practice’. Here’s a link (I can’t embed the vid for some reason). I’m a DipTESOL graduate so ‘pron’ is… Read More ›

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