- December 31st, 2009
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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…
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- December 21st, 2009
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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…
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- December 18th, 2009
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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…
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- December 14th, 2009
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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…
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- December 5th, 2009
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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…
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- December 3rd, 2009
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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…
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- December 1st, 2009
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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…
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- November 28th, 2009
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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…
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- November 26th, 2009
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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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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…
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- November 24th, 2009
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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…
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- November 15th, 2009
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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…
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- November 7th, 2009
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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…
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- November 3rd, 2009
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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…
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- November 1st, 2009
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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…
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- October 30th, 2009
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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…
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- October 25th, 2009
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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…
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- October 24th, 2009
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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...…
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- October 20th, 2009
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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…
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- October 18th, 2009
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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…
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- October 16th, 2009
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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,…
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- October 8th, 2009
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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…
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- October 7th, 2009
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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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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…
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- October 6th, 2009
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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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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…
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- September 29th, 2009
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- September 28th, 2009
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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…
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- September 23rd, 2009
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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…
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- September 20th, 2009
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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…
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- September 13th, 2009
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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...…
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- September 9th, 2009
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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…
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- September 7th, 2009
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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…
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- September 3rd, 2009
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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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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…
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- August 31st, 2009
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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…
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- August 30th, 2009
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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…
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- August 26th, 2009
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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…
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- August 25th, 2009
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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…
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- August 22nd, 2009
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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…
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- August 19th, 2009
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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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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…
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- August 17th, 2009
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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…
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- August 13th, 2009
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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…
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- August 11th, 2009
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(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…
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- August 9th, 2009
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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…
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- August 6th, 2009
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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…
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- July 31st, 2009
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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…
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- July 29th, 2009
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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…
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- July 28th, 2009
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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…
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