Sarn Rich

Sarn Rich researches and teaches language-related matters at Canterbury Christ Church University, including CELTA courses and MA Applied Linguistics.  Before this, he spent most of the 1990s teaching and wandering between Central Europe and the Far East, then settled back in the UK and learned about language and learning from his children.  His current interests include distributed cognition and escape rooms in ELT, gender issues and our responsibilities to future generations. His email address is: [email protected]

Getting to grips with a slippery concept

The article describes the steps teacher and learners can go through to help enrich active vocabulary through a better understanding metaphor. Online resource available.

The battle of the boards

Sarn Rich defends the interactive nature of the non-interactive board.

Sounds difficult

Sarn Rich learns some lively lessons from his students’ spelling mistakes.