What about your concept questions? The famous CCQ’s
CCQ’s in the TEFL jargon which we all love to use are those questions which you need to ask right after you have taught something, be it a grammar point of a functional exponent, and they are also the...
View ArticleBlog Challenge: Tradition Revisited & Revamped
Inspired by the #ELTchat of November 10, 1020, here is a blog challenge to collect and learn how you use traditional practices in your modern innovative class The topic we discussed was: When you think...
View ArticleTradition Revisited & Revamped: “Something old, something new….”
What are the good things you can draw from each of the approaches labelled traditional? How have you adapted them or changed them/renovated them and how do you integrate them into your teaching...
View ArticleAdvance Organisers – How they Connect the Reading Experience
Reading is a highly complex activity and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, it is often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which students, if only they...
View ArticleAre you ready to go beyond your comfort zone?
Once an English teacher has put a few years of experience under their belt, they often come to a point in their teaching career where they are beginning to feel the need for further professional...
View ArticleCan you teach a Dogme Lesson on your Cambridge DELTA?
This post is written in response and as part of a twitter conversation with Martin Sketchley – @ELTexperiences on Twitter. His blog post on his own Dogme observed lesson can be found at the end of this...
View ArticleA Little & Often: Integrating Technology on Teacher Development Courses
A few months ago (April-June 2011*) I wrote a report on a survey on the use of technology amongst CELTA tutors. The results were rather disheartening and the prevailing attitudes among many of my...
View ArticleMy 11 from ’11
Am taking up Adam Simpson’s challenge, well, not really a challenge, more like an invitation but such a nice way to look back at what I have blogged about this year. Adam said, “Choose the best 11”...
View ArticleP is for Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective
Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA, express great interest in this way of studying connected text...
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