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ELT Cafe
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A place for teachers of English as a second and foreign language and anyone interested in the profession to sit around over a cup of coffee or tea and share their personal stories, feelings, thoughts, observation, frustrations, excitements, concerns etc. etc. in their own ways of the familiar yet strange world of ELT ...
- Author: Chwa
- Listed in: Education Adult Education
- Tags: esl efl esp english teachers english language teaching (elt) non-native english language teachers
Recent Posts
Why can\'t we make up our minds?
This post was contributed by Christina Judy Fernandez. It all started at a meeting to moderate how we mark our midterm essays. Eight benchmark essays were sent to us the day before and I was the only one who knew the scores awarded to each essay. My...
Am I suffering from Identity Confusion?
Everything's feeling strange this week, mainly because I've just arrived at a new environment, and I know that's supposed to be normal. But more seriously, I think I'm also suffering from IDENTITY CONFUSION. Obviously, at this point of t...
Cell phones are their lives
(Source: http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=38437) This post was contributed by Christina Judy Fernandez. The-re rum the-re rum the-re rum dum dum ... "There goes the infamous Nokia tune again,” I thought to myself while trying t...
Attitudes and moods
Dear diary, When the Business Communication class ended today, I ran off quickly, ditching my friends behind, as I was so embarrassed. This is such a busy week - we have three assignments due this week. I don't understand why the lecturers have to ...
Growing for myself
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey,"But I just haven't got the energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull, "They're packed with nutrien...
A storm in the English teachers\' teacup
This is NOT a real news report, but is nevertheless a very juicy story within an ELT staff room. Carol Tan, an English lecturer of a private university claimed that she has had a mental breakdown because of an e-mail sent to her by a colleague,...
