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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And the winners are…: The ELTons 2018

2018-07-06

Chia Suan Chong recounts her experiences on the British Council ELTons awards for Innovation in English Language Teaching and describes the winners of the evening.

7 more ways native speakers can effectively communicate internationally

2018-06-21

In the final part of her blog series on communicating internationally, Chia looks at seven more tips for native speakers including the use of humour, accommodation and adaptation skills, and cultural awareness.

Reflecting on online privacy and protection for teachers and students

2018-06-08

The topic of privacy and data protection is on everyone's lips but how do our opinions differ on the matter? Chia Suan Chong provides some discussion questions for teachers to use with their peers and their students to help promote reflection and raise awareness of the issues involved.

To test, or not to test

2018-05-24

In her blog this week, Chia Suan Chong puts exams to the test...

An ELT teacher’s new year resolutions

2018-04-20

At the start of 2017, Chia Suan Chong looks at 12 different new year resolutions teachers could consider making in order to inject some fun, some professional development and some excitement into the new year.

ETp Live! 2015 Part 2 : Once upon a time, there was a short completed action

2018-03-29

Chia Suan Chong provides an in-depth blog on Danny Norrington-Davies’s workshop, Once upon a time, there was a short completed action, from the recent ETp Live! conference

ETp Live! 2015 Part 3 : The Future Present

2018-03-15

Chia Suan Chong goes back to the future, concluding her series of blogs on ETp live! 2015 by looking at Nicky Hockly's closing plenary on the 'future present'...

In-Company Training versus In-School Teaching

2018-03-07

Chia Suan Chong blogs on her move into In-Company Training and how it differs compared to her experiences of teaching in a school...

Adjacency Pairs in social media

2018-03-01

In her blog this week, Chia Suan Chong looks at adjacency pairs and how they are tied to behaviour on social media.

What my two-year-old has taught me about language learning – Part 1

2018-02-16

This week, Chia Suan Chong looks at how her two-year-old daughter continues to learn language and considers what it has taught her about language acquisition.

What my two-year-old has taught me about language learning – Part 2

2018-02-01

In her blogpost this week, Chia Suan Chong considers more things she's learned about language acquisition as she teaches her two-year-old

100 things I love about ELT – Part 1

2018-01-18

Inspired by the recent celebration of ETp's 100th issue, Chia attempts to list 100 reasons she loves her job in English language teaching. This blog post, Part 1 of 3, covers numbers 1-40.

Using your students’ smartphone cameras

2018-01-04

Chia Suan Chong explores eight activity ideas and many more suggestions as to how we can make use of our students' smartphone camera function to generate content for the classroom.

Ten ways to consider different perspectives

2017-12-18

How can we help students see things from a different point of view? How can we help them become aware of their own assumptions and their own beliefs of the world? Chia Suan Chong outlines ten activities we could use to develop empathy and encourage students to walk a mile in a different pair of shoes.

Whose accent is better?

2017-12-14

In her blog this week Chia Suan Chong gives us a flavour of her ETp Live! talk by discussing the relevance placed on accents.