Jack Scholes: You’ve been teaching EFL worldwide since 1978. With all your international experience, what would you say are the “ties that bind” quality teaching practice across the globe and in a variety of scenarios? Paul Seligson: Strong rapport, empathy…
It’s great for high-levels! Ever since I first read Michael Lewis’s book ‘The Lexical Approach’, I’ve been interested in how to apply its insights into my own teaching and materials writing. However, while giving presentations and running training sessions on…
Teaching pronunciation isn’t nearly as obscure and enigmatic as it was in the past, but some teachers might still consider it a rather intimidating task. In informal conversations with teachers, they often mention their lack of confidence in planning a lesson whose main…
NR: In 1997 you co-authored a landmark book with Robert Burden called – Psychology for Language Teachers – A Social Constructivist Approach – which took a different perspective from the prevailing approaches to educational psychology at the time. How and why was…
We all know that our students love to play games. They think games are fun and they want to have fun all the time. However, games shouldn’t be played just for fun or just as a time filler at the end of the class. Games should always have a purpose in the English class.
Technology changes over the last 10‑15 years have added a huge range of new tools that learners and teachers can use in their classrooms. These include tools not even designed with teaching in mind, such as Padlet, in addition to a range of edtech tools that have been…
What would you do with it? Level: Elementary upwards Time: 20 – 25 minutes Materials: A selection of images showing paintings, sculptures and objets d’art Language focus: Prepositions, vocabulary of furniture and rooms in the house, reduced…
A while ago, I saw a Facebook post that caught my attention. The writer said something in the lines of, “If one wants to have an opinion on Education, one must have taught sixth graders for at least twenty years”. I think this statement is very symptomatic of the way…
A Speech Idiomas nasceu em 1998, em Cruzeiro-SP, e tornou-se referência no ensino de Inglês e Espanhol na cidade e região. Ao longo de seus mais de 20 anos, surgiu a necessidade de expansão, e hoje, além da escola principal, conta também com a Teen School e Little…
