These posts contain links to and commentary about aspects of the language teaching industry.
What is this? Does your language intuition and cultural expectations meet in the path of understanding? Without context, it can be a little challenging. Imagine this all around you. It was this alien experience, like living in some alternate reality, where I had my first experience with language workout. Korean.Read More »Korean: my language learning
A few months ago, I proposed an #EAPchat to fill the void left by the great parent chats, like #edchat and #eltchat. Now, it’s about to begin!Read More »#EAPchat starts Feb 20!
As a reading and writing task, I asked my students to analyse and explain two paragraphs of a challenging newspaper article. One student’s laughable submission made me question what web tool out there could possibly have ‘helped’ him.
Through both my own interest and the influence of my MA course, I’ve been sending out prompts for dialogue on Twitter, on Facebook and in my office regarding the integration of technology in our classes in terms of the familiar (and purportedly outdated) abbreviation CALL (Computer-assisted language learning), which has been met with a polarised set of opinions. Feel free to chime in.Read More »Is CALL outdated?
Once upon a time I was a a teacher at a private language school in Toronto and it was at this school, in my first class there, that I met Nao, a student who would inspire me to learn more to teach more to improve me to inspire more. As part of the second of the #30goals, I present a visual projeqt about him and me.Read More »“the student” – a projeqt
I’m going to read you a story, our story. As you listen, I hope you’ll share what comes to mind. The more people who do, the more we’ll all benefit.Read More »Me manifesto
Once in a while, I come across a sentence (from an article, a textbook or even my own mouth) that includes a structure that gives me pause. I look at it, wondering if I’ve ever taught it before, if it appears in any textbook units I’ve taught from. I don’t always notice them as they slip by me, but today, I did. It’s only to.
People say beautiful, succinct, powerful sentiments all the time that I want to remember. I wish I had a pen and a notebook at these times. On occasions I do, but I forget to use them. As a result, I rarely remember the who, but I don’t forget the what. Thank God for Google: it can come in handy for challenges like the one Brad Patterson just urges.Read More »A quote for teachers