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Conversation bingo

Jamie Clayton gets his students speaking - rather than just 'doing speaking'.

Over the wall: looking at idleness

Alan Maley sits back and puts his feet up.

Digital homework for digital natives

Nasy Inthisone Pfanner gives her students what they crave.

Book reviews – Writing Sentences and Writing Paragraphs

Peter Fullagar reviews the first two books in a series of four by Macmillan aimed at helping learners with writing skills

Language Log: Present perfect or past simple

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 has addressed an issue that has confused many learners for a long time.

Educating Elsie

Fiona Baker has to adopt special teaching strategies for very special needs.

Preparing to teach: expressing purpose

John Potts explains what it’s all for.

Overt teaching: keeping students in the loop

Mark Heffernan and David Byrne maintain that the best way to achieve greater engagement and  ‘buy-in’ from our students is to tell them precisely what they are being taught and why.

Five things you always wanted to know about QR codes (but were afraid to ask)

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 examines a strange symbol that seems to be popping up all over the place.

Speak! Please, speak!

Nicholas Northall addresses why less vocal learners don’t speak – and how to encourage them.

English Medium Instruction

Viv Midlane Glossop reviews English Medium Instruction by Ernesto Macaro

Knowledge of the Knowledge: learning from a test for taxi drivers

Nick Howlett explains what London taxi drivers have to learn to get their licences and thinks language learners might take lessons from this and usefully employ the same techniques.

Fabulous learning

Fran Sokel unearths untold riches in universal tales.

Over the wall: reviewing books about translation

Alan Maley is certainly not lost in translation.

Language Log: Indirectness

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 was wondering whether you might possibly appreciate an explanation of indirectness in English.
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