Tuesday 9 March 2010

Creativity and Motivation

by Chaz Pugliese

Hello. What triggered my interest in creativity and language teaching was a study I conducted some years back. I asked some colleagues A. what motivated them to teach and B. what made them stay in this field (given the hardships). I must say I was surprised to see that for many, having a go at designing [...]

Wednesday 3 March 2010

Hello and Welcome

by Chaz Pugliese

Hello. The quickest and easiest way to get into creative thinking has always been for me to take an old idea/exercise and try to come up with as many variations as I possibly can. This  is what researchers call association, or combinational creativity . Here’s how it works. Let’s take  ”Simon says’ as an example (you know: [...]

Tuesday 2 March 2010

Chaz Pugliese Video

by Chaz Pugliese

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Dogme and Identity

by Luke Meddings

Having concluded my comments yesterday by quoting from Chia, I am going to start today’s blog by doing the same. The quote I picked out yesterday, and which I repeat here, is this: ‘Ultimately, Dogme to me, is using all the methodologies and activities I have under my belt to deal with emergent language.’ The second is [...]

Monday 5 October 2009

The Beauty of Writing

by Luke Meddings

I’m doing something radical. Instead of writing this blog entry on my PC, in fact before even turning on my PC, I’ve reached for a decent pen and a piece of pristine paper – sourced, inevitably, from my printer. This is partly thanks to the inspiration of Umberto Eco, inventor of ecology and author of The [...]

Saturday 25 July 2009

ELT in Images – roads and book covers

by Lindsay Clandfield

When we (the series editors and publisher at Delta) were talking about the new Teacher Development Book Series we had a long discussion about book covers. There’s a saying “don’t judge a book by its cover”, but I find I judge books by their covers all the time. A good cover should be noticeable from [...]

Tuesday 21 July 2009

ELT in Images – The Terminator

by Lindsay Clandfield

Well, this is a slightly different image this time and it is probably influenced by a lot of the stuff I’ve been reading online recently about teaching and technology. There have been arguments back and forth about the effect of modern technology on education, especially IWBs (Interactive White Boards). Are they a blessing or a [...]