Met Editor

Whilst it might be going too far to describe the prevailing attitude towards those of us who have English as our mother tongue as ‘native speaker bashing’, we do regularly come in for a fair amount of criticism from various quarters. So, how is the poor language student to cope? Some of our contributors offer helpful suggestions.

Alan Maley invests some time reading about the mystery of global finance.

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she looks at blogs and how they might be relevant to language teaching.

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she explains how you can source the ‘crowd’.

Tessa Woodward provides an update on her campaign for gender equality.

Louis Rogers considers the question of corpora.

Alan Maley gets away from it all.

You say melón and I say melon: In the famous song ‘Let’s call the whole thing off’, the singer compares lots of words which are spelt the same in American and British English but pronounced differently, such as tomato: /tP÷meâtPŸ/ (American English); /tP÷mG*tPŸ/ (British English). Working on a similar principle, this game focuses on stress patterns of English words and implicitly contrasts them with cognate equivalents in the learners’ own language ...

John Potts charts the intricacies and idiosyncrasies, the contradictions and complications that make the English language so fascinating for teachers and teaching. In this issue, he mixes it up with conditionals.

English Teaching professional editor Helena Gomm talks us through July's edition of the magazine...

Alan Maley ponders the plight of people on the move.

Thomas Ziegelwagner discusses whether correct pronunciation has lost its relevance in today’s world and concludes that it is something we should still be teaching.

John Potts looks at ways of working with would.

Magnus Coney continues his series on putting theoretical insights to practical use

A six-level series designed for children learning to read in English as a second or additional language.