Archive for May 2009

Monday 18 May 2009

Learners who are shy to speak

by Scott Thornbury

What do you do in the event that many of the learners in the classroom are shy to speak? My response to this question elicited some responses, in turn, from some trainee teachers in Seville.

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Wednesday 13 May 2009

Mark Stone

by Tom Dunican

Jon Chandler and I co-authored The Resourceful English Teacher when we were EFL teachers in Oxford-based language schools. One summer Jon and I were colleagues at The Swan School of English, and ever since then, we had had discussions about how useful it would be for teachers of all levels to have a ‘generic’ teaching [...]

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Wednesday 13 May 2009

Viv Lambert

by Tom Dunican

I studied French, German and Linguistics at Reading University in the UK before getting an RSA Diploma in TEFL and teaching experience in Europe and South East Asia. After several years travelling and teaching English, I returned to the UK to work in the publishing industry where I worked in house editing and commissioning children’s [...]

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Monday 11 May 2009

Where’s your evidence?

by Scott Thornbury

A common criticism directed at Dogme is that there is no research to support the Dogme approach. Is this true?

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