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- December 31st, 2009
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Bring on the teenies...
The decade of the uh-oh's is finally done.Hallelujah!!For me those ten years were made up of:A marriage... a divorce, surviving volcanic eruptions and political coups, moving from South America to Ger…
- December 21st, 2009
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Reasons I don\'t like most textbooks (7)
So, er...mm.... why exactly are 2 billion people learning English?To make their lives "better."And er, what exactly must they do if they are to successfully achieve this goal?They must learn how to ta…
- December 18th, 2009
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The best laid plans of mice and women...
It is a funny old world, isn't it?Even if you carefully plan something, design a structure and place all the pieces in a line something can come along and knock it all down.The Sexiest Men in ELT was…
- December 14th, 2009
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Conversations at Christmas
Confession:Christmas is not my favorite holiday.It's my least favorite.To go into all the reasons for that would be dull...I could say I don't like the materialism, am not a big fan of shopping or cro…
- December 5th, 2009
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Thnx 4 ur RTs
A rather popular figure in ELT kicked off a rather big discussion two days ago - one which captivated my attention and distracted me from doing a thousand other, much more pressing and urgent, matters…
- December 3rd, 2009
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Who is the sexiest man in ELT?
Normally on a Thursday, I post up the She-in-ELT series...Normally at the beginning of a month, I work on producing my monthly wrap-up of the blogosphere...My S-i-E posting for this week didn't arrive…
- December 1st, 2009
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Conference Report: BESIG 2009
Last week, the annual Teachers of Business English conference was held in Poznan, Poland. I made the trek all the way there to have a look at what’s been going on in my field of teaching English to…
- November 28th, 2009
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Karenne\'s EduBlogs Nominations for 2009
We've been asked by Edublogs to submit nominations for the 2009, Edublogs Awardsand mine are... drum roll....Best of the BlogsBest individual blogsLindsay Clandfield's Six ThingsToby Crawley Bite-Size…
- November 26th, 2009
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Wanna be a fly on the wall?
COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT:BRITISH COUNCIL IATEFL CONFERENCE ROVING REPORTERS 2010The IATEFL Online Project is a British Council / IATEFL partnership established to provide online conference coverage of…
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Lindsay Clandfield on Katy Wright
I used to wonder why authors thanked their editors in the acknowledgments of their books. It wasn’t until I worked with Katy Wright that I really understood.I first met Katy Wright at an IATEFL conf…
- November 24th, 2009
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Reasons I don\'t like most textbooks (6)
They're too expensive.Best,KarenneMore reasons I don't like most textbooks?(scroll past this one).p.s. I'm going to do a Ken Wilson on you: there is a post... coming up quite soon, breaking down the…
- November 15th, 2009
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An Unsung Hero in ELT: Sean Banville
Something really upset me a few days ago and I haven't been able to shake it off.I tweeted my congratulations to Sean Banville on his Pecha Kucha (PK) presentation in the recent Virtual Round Table an…
- November 7th, 2009
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Marisa Constantinides on How to Become an ELT Teacher Educator
Oh, To be a Teacher Trainer! In the relatively recent past, Cambridge ESOL redefined their policies regarding the hiring of Course Tutors for CELTA, DELTA and other Cambridge Teaching Awards courses s…
- November 3rd, 2009
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Reasons I don\'t like most textbooks (5)
Take a deep breath.Go on, blow out hard.I'm bringing a unicorn into the balloon factory.Although many of you will have read the following before, some agreeing and some not, many of you haven't.Many o…
- November 1st, 2009
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Why Twitter lists are a good idea
Earlier this week I was beginning to feel the Twitter burn-out as despite the obvious value in being a part of a global learning community, the site is so distracting and time-consuming - often there…
- October 30th, 2009
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Who\'s your googlegänger?
Is anyone wandering about the planet with your name?What do they do? Where do they live?Do they have a better job, make more money than you do? Have they written a book, do they lead a football team…
- October 25th, 2009
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That rush, that knowledge high
Spenserian vowels that elope with ease,and float along like birds o'er summer seaswho read for me the sonnet swelling loudly,up to its climaxand then dying proudly? KeatsHave you ever paid attention t…
- October 24th, 2009
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Powerpointing Me -EFL Tech Tip #13
The other day when I was reading Nick Jaworski's blog postings on using the Teacher as the Narrative in EFL classes, I left a comment behind regarding one of my used-a-gazillion-times-first-lessons...…
- October 20th, 2009
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Reasons I don\'t like most textbooks (4)
One size fits all?The reason you can not make the perfect textbook is because our students aren't perfect: they do not fit into boxes or packages.Our students differ in their ages, occupations, wants…
- October 18th, 2009
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How to be an amazing teacher
It is not rocket science... in fact, it's not science at all.You want the key?Inspire your students. It's not what you know.It's about what they're going to get the chance to know.It's not whether or…
- October 16th, 2009
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Sheila Vine on Valentina Dodge
The female in ELT who has had the most influence on me during the last four or five years is Valentina Dodge. Valentina is to online EFL what chocolate is to life: essential.Valentina is a teacher,…
- October 8th, 2009
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Sandy McManus on Melanie Butler
I can't really say that there is a glass ceiling in ELT- much more of a 'Pink Ceiling', especially if you work for the British Council!I would say that more than half of my bosses in the field of educ…
- October 7th, 2009
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Why aren\'t you using technology in your classes?
A cyber-mate of mine is doing some research into teachers' attitudes in using technology...so I was wondering if you wouldn't mind leaving me your thoughts on the main reasons that you're not using la…
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Working on my appetite for learning, September 09
My monthly summary of the best of the blogosphere is ready to be pulled out of the proverbial oven - so much written this month: in here, out there within the community and right across the entire e…
- October 6th, 2009
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Jeremy Day on Vicki Hollett\'s Opportunities & Objectives
The ‘she in ELT’ who has had the biggest impact on me – Vicki Hollett.I’ve never met Vicki face to face, so I’m afraid this piece will be more technical than personal. As you’ll see, I’m…
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Reasons I don\'t like most text books (2)
cultural incompatibilityIf we were to do a demographic poll of all textbooks written for the TEFL industry in the last 25 years, then we would probably find out that an outstanding majority have been…
- September 29th, 2009
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- September 28th, 2009
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Any Given Dogma
The title of this posting was first coined by Lindsay Clandfield as Any Given Dogme in reference to his hilarious spoof video (below) of Scott Thornbury, starring Al Pacino. I borrowed it for this p…
- September 23rd, 2009
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A smart way to use your phone in ELT classrooms: TechTip #12
Whenever I see freelance language teachers still luggin' around great big CD players from in-company site to in-company class... I always pause and wonder why.Because these days, in your pockets, you…
- September 20th, 2009
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One
I rang up my parents the other day to talk through one of those family crisis things that happens to all families and after we were done hashing through all of that, my father exclaimed:"Lawd, girl, y…
- September 13th, 2009
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What's a TEFL teacher?
These days, now that I'm suddenly connected to educators from all sorts of different fields, located all over the world via various different social-networking sites, I thought I'd left my bubble...…
- September 9th, 2009
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Alex Case on Paula Reynolds
You almost certainly haven’t heard of Paula Reynolds, partly because until she retired she was, to most people, just another of those hard working female teachers busy cutting up packs of cards on c…
- September 7th, 2009
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The A-E-I thing (English as a Second Language Acquisition)
Right.I despair. Have been teaching English for nigh on 15 years. Taught in UK, HK (ran a non-profit there)... was a DOS in Ecuador, write materials and have my own business here.Taught the wee ones…
- September 3rd, 2009
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Hi English Fans! (Motivation in Adult EFL)
alternative title: UP, DOWN, TOP/BOTTOM, CHANGES & NO CHANGESThere have been some rather hot and heavy discussions recently about whether or not it's a good idea to use technology in teaching.And…
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Gavin Dudeney's Sexy Redux
She-in-ELT, introIt seems a slight condescension to even consider writing an article like this, despite the fact that it was an original blog posting of mine which kicked off the series.So maybe we sh…
- August 31st, 2009
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The Blogosphere, the Twitterverse (ELT 08/09)
Wrapping up what I wrote, showing the best I've read, linking the twop of the tweets...Summary: Kalinago English August 2009This month, She-in-ELT kicked off with two…
- August 30th, 2009
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On e-wills and last testaments
When I was 25 I worked aboard a 64ft ketch in Australia as its cook, deckhand and hostess with the mostest.We sailed the Whitsunday isles, dived the Great Barrier reef, swam with tiger sharks at dawn…
- August 26th, 2009
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Vicki Hollett on Cristina Whitecross
She-in-ELT series - 2Karenne, there are so many inspiring women in TEFL, what about all the ones you're bound to miss?But, actually, I think I have your winner!I am proud to know the most inspiring wo…
- August 25th, 2009
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EFL Teacher Progress Check: adult language learners
Somewhere, in one of the training manuals I read a long time ago, I found the steps teachers go through on their way to becoming great instructors and I've got this posted up on my wall for reflection…
- August 22nd, 2009
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The English Language Teacher's Guide To Twitter, tech tip #11
The other day I quickly posted up notes on how to best use Twitter in a couple of the ELT Yahoo!Groups I belong to and one community member wrote and said... er, why isn't this on your blog so we can…
- August 19th, 2009
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Business English Teachers Conference - Poland, Nov 20-22nd 2009
For the first time ever, the annual BESIG conference will be held outside central Europe and instead will take place in one of Poland's biggest cities - Poznan.Every year the IATEFL Business English S…
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IATEFL Scholarships 2010 - deadline 18 September 2009!!
Attending something like the IATEFL probably seems like one of those unreachable career objectives.I mean, the cost of the flight, hotels, the conference itself..?We're EFL teachers, money is not exac…
- August 17th, 2009
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Water Words (on using images in ESP: Financial English)
One of the absolute best supplementary books to use when teaching banking or financial types is Financial English by Ian MacKenzie.However, despite the absolute wealth of vocabulary it contains, the e…
- August 13th, 2009
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Karen Schweitzer on Deborah Healey
She-in-ELT series - 1to read a printed version of this posting, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on the green Eco-safe badge.An interview with Deborah HealeyDeborah Healey has been involve…
- August 11th, 2009
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The walls that divide us
(A Business English/EFL/ESP:marketing lesson)After having lived, worked and taught English all over the world, I've noticed that cultures differ from workplace to workspace and this cultural divide is…
- August 9th, 2009
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In the space of 140 characters
I got an email yesterday asking me if I wouldn't mind describing what Twitter means to me, professionally, and if I could do this within one-hundred-and-forty-words...And while ruminating on the answe…
- August 6th, 2009
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English Language Teachers Now Blogging, tech tip 10
Back in June, I put a call out asking the ELT blogosphere to answer this question in the form of a blog carnival.What advice would you give to another TEFL teacher interested in becoming a blogger?27…
- July 31st, 2009
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What a mad month! July 2009
The Big NewsKalinago English made it into the Bab.la/Lexiophiles list of top 10 language teaching blogs!For more winning blogs, see these categories too :Language LearningLanguage TechnologyLanguage P…
- July 29th, 2009
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The God in Marketing
A word regarding the following posting which is an attempt to kill three birds with one stone -because why knock down two if the rock in your hand's big enough to hit more?part 1 : aimed at my fellow…
- July 28th, 2009
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How do you keep language learners learning?
I have a theory...I'm sitting in a cafe because the internet went down at home. So even though I guess I could just go pop on over to Google and find some amazing article or find out who's alread…
