Chia Suan Chong

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Chia Suan Chong blogged for English Teaching professional for 8 years, every fortnight, writing her final post back in September 2019. During her time as a blogger, she wrote 173 blog posts, writing from 5 different cities Ã¢â‚¬â€œ through holidays, through changes in her career, through 3 periods of maternity leave. She took on different roles as she continued to blog as a teacher, a teacher trainer, a communication skills trainer, an intercultural skills trainer, a writer, a freelancer and an educator and her blogs reflected those experiences as well as discussing controversial and topic issues in ELT and reporting back from conferences. Fascinated by the interplay between culture, language and thought, Chia is now an intercultural skills trainer, materials developer and author. She continues to write for Pavilion ELTÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s magazines and had a long-running column in ETp called "Not Only But Also". She is also the author of Successful International Communication (published by Pavilion Publishing and Media, 2018), and is now based in York.

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How to be a freelancer

2013-08-29

Following her recent IATEFL how-to talk on being a freelancer, Chia Suan Chong looks at the different aspects of freelancing as a teacher and asks some provocative questions about what we want and hope to achieve. She then uses the 7 Ps of marketing as a guide to help freelancer teachers think about their business plan.

Types of board games for the ELT classroom – Part 2

2013-08-27

In the final part of this 2-part series, Chia Suan Chong looks at board games that foster skills of critical thinking, problem-solving and strategic thinking while encouraging collaboration and speaking practice through genuine interaction.

Not only, but also… – Issue 113

2013-08-22

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers do apart from teaching language. In this issue, she looks at developing their own teaching materials.

Not only, but also… – 117

2013-08-21

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at note-taking skills.

Teaching Business English

2013-08-15

Chia Suan Chong looks at what it means to teach Business English, what it isn't and why language teachers should consider moving in the field of Business English teaching.

Using humour across cultures

2013-07-31

Chia Suan Chong considers how we deal with humour in the classroom and how we could prepare our students to communicate internationally by helping them better understand how humour is perceived across cultures.

The importance of interaction and negotiating meaning

2013-07-15

Chia Suan Chong investigates how promoting interaction and communicative competence is key to what we do.

ETp Live! 2015 Part 1

2013-07-02

In her blog this week, Chia Suan Chong looks back at last week's ETp Live! conference

A fun day out at ETp Live

2013-06-03

Chia Suan Chong blogs on her experiences at ETp Live!

A rose by any other name…

2013-05-20

What's in a name? Chia Suan Chong explores the cultural issues...

When my learners made a ‘how to’ video – a TBL lesson plan

2013-03-26

In response to Sugata Mitra's talk at IATEFL, Chia Suan Chong recalls a Task-Based Learning lesson she taught using video cameras...

The ten staff rooms

2013-02-27

While every staff room is different, the advent of mobile technology and conferencing means teachers are all now part of a global staff room, says Chia Suan Chong.

Ten challenges for your next conference

2013-01-17

How can we get the most out of the conferences we go to? How can we ensure that we’re learning as much as we can while caring and sharing with our fellow professionals? Here is a ten-challenge checklist that will help the conference goer focus on their continuing professional development … and beyond.

3 things we can do for successful email communication

2012-11-23

Beyond teaching useful email phrases, how can we help our students communicate more effectively via email? Chia Suan Chong gives us three things we can focus on in the language classroom.

Tidying my ELT mess with the KonMari Method™

2012-11-08

With so many joining in the decluttering movement sparked by Marie Kondo and her new TV series, Chia Suan Chong considers how she can use her method to declutter her study, reorganise her books and papers, and make space for new thoughts and ideas.