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Teaching Abroad
Are you thinking about teaching abroad? If you are, then this article might help you out. The first thing I've got to say to you is not to allow yourself to be swayed by your emotions or the romantic...
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Teaching Christmas
We have added a number of lessons for different levels and articles about Christmas and how it can be taught and used in the classroom. There will be more to follow in the next few days, so please...
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Site Overview- 2007
Since the end of 2004, we have recorded how many entries we have in some of the sections of our site, which means that we can see how much new content we have created since then. In 2007, we put the...
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Lexxica -Vocabulary Analysis
Lexxica provides resources to determine how much vocabulary a student knows and find gaps in their knowledge. They also claim to be able to accurately assess which words a student already knows. The...
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Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP
As an aside from my usual topics about using computers for language education, recently I am involved in a teacher training programme and would like to share an article I am working on to assist new...
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Once Upon A School - TED Prize Winner
I recently watched an inspiring talk given as part of the TED 2008 conference by Dave Eggers, a philanthropist and teacher-at-large (as they describe him). The talk shows ways in which dedicated...
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Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom
Another training article. Something my trainees weren't doing very well -drilling. Not very exciting, but someone might find it useful.
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Teachermate -Handheld Console for Educational Games
An Illinois, non-profit organisation called Innovations for Learning has released a handheld cosole, like a Game Boy or Nintendo DS designed for education and targeted at kindergarten and elementary...
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Noam Chomsky Talks About Universal Grammar [Video]
In this video, Noam Chomsky talks about language at Google as part of the Authors@Google series.In this question and answer session he discusses a number of topics, but the first is about universal...
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Getting Back to Normal
Things have been quiet in some areas of the site of late and we haven't added many new items. Sadly, work has been squatting on our lives and eating into time normally spent updating the site.
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English, a Crazy Language Indeed!
For my first blog post this year I thought I'd provide you with a couple of light-hearted and entertaining looks at the English language. The first shows you just how confusing the language can...
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ESL World Cup links
Here are some links to ESL sites and lesson plans, etc, related to the World Cup.
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English Mania
The world has a common language to solve its common problems. So says Jay Walker in the following video. Here he explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn the world's second...
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The linguistic genius of babies [Video]
At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to...
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Site Overview- 2011
Here's a comparison of some of the sections of the site now with 2007, the last time this sort of overview was done. As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed so much.
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Site Overview 2012
Here's a comparison of some of the sections of the site over the last year. As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed so much. This does not include areas like the blogs, the links database,...
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Teaching Christmas
We have added a number of lessons for different levels and articles about Christmas and how it can be taught and used in the classroom. There will be more to follow in the next few days, so please...
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Site Overview- 2007
Since the end of 2004, we have recorded how many entries we have in some of the sections of our site, which means that we can see how much new content we have created since then. In 2007, we put the...
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Lexxica -Vocabulary Analysis
Lexxica provides resources to determine how much vocabulary a student knows and find gaps in their knowledge. They also claim to be able to accurately assess which words a student already knows. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teacher Training -Grammar Based PPP
As an aside from my usual topics about using computers for language education, recently I am involved in a teacher training programme and would like to share an article I am working on to assist new...
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