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Language teachers as applied linguists – past and future

Roger Barnard looks at the changing role of teachers in the development of applied linguistics.

Over the wall: dealing with misinformation

Alan Maley mounts an attack on misinformation.

It works in practice: a literal music video and more

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers.

Follow the leader

By assigning leadership to the learners, Michael Tasseron creates a situation where everyone wins.

Differences in auditory processing

Lesley Lanir discusses whether students have problems with hearing or listening.

Setting up an internship program at a Japanese university: Part One

Andrew Boon and Chrissie Woods describe setting up and some of the successes and problems of an internship program.

Get on board

Louise Guyett suggests three interactive ways to practice sounds and the phonemic script.

Scrapbook: DIY

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends, what you will. 

Turning listening into a career

Sheila Thorn, the founder of The Listening Business and the author of the Real Lives, Real Listening series (Collins) explains how she got into materials writing and offers some sound advice for anyone who wants to start producing their own ELT materials.

Take Five with Silvana Richardson

Chaz Pugliese poses five questions to people involved in the world of ELT. In this issue, he talks to Silvana Richardson.

Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing

Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing leads the academic writing researcher through the EAP landscape using one orientation device: ethnography.

Classroom Community Builders, Alphabet Publishing

Classroom Community Builders is organised into six parts and provides advice on how to work with students who are being culturally insensitive to one another. 

It works in practice: vocabulary practice, how well do you know me and more

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers.

Over the wall: books about the future

Alan Maley sees the writing on the wall.

Starting a critical dialogue

Valerie Sartor teaches her students more than literacy.