July 24, 2016 Chunks Spoken Language Does the chunk argument trump the plagiarism allegations? Photo by Marc Nozell via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] One of the hottest news this week has been Melania Trumps’ allegedly plagiarized speech. Why...
July 12, 2016 Conference Summaries The L in ELT A report from the International ETAI Conference "Engage Enhance Energize" which took place in Ashkelon, Israel, between 4 and 6 Ju...
May 14, 2016 L1 Proficiency Those who can't I'm a ________ (1) teacher of English (what has recently become a bad word has been blanked out as to not offend anyone). As readers ma...
February 20, 2016 Lexical Approach Lexis Criticism of the Lexical Approach "All chunks and no pineapple?" Image by Andrew Malone via Flickr [ CC BY 2.0 ] Writing an essay or working on a paper on the Lexi...
January 31, 2016 Activities Chunks Grammar Lexis Vocabulary Be like Bill for grammar (and vocabulary) practice The third person singular of the Present Simple tense is known to be particularly problematic for learners and when the "Be Like Bill...
January 07, 2016 Activities Collocations News Quiz Recycling Vocabulary News quiz 2015 - Follow up Activities for reviewing lexis from News Quiz 2015 Photo by Dustpuppy72 via Flickr [ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] Here's the promised follow up ...
December 29, 2015 Activities Collocations Lexis News Quiz News quiz 2015 Traditional end-of-year news quiz for the first lesson of the new year The dress which went viral To tell the truth, I almost broke the trad...
November 29, 2015 Chunks News Vocabulary Writing 10 things you can do with "10 things you didn't know last week" 10 things you didn't know last week is a digest of news snippets published every Friday on the BBC website. You can find it in a sectio...
October 17, 2015 Colligation Error correction IATEFL Lexical Approach Lexical priming Colligation and a bottom-up approach to grammar Summary of Hugh Dellar's IATEFL webinar Following the patterns: colligation and the necessity of a bottom-up approach to grammar - Sept...
October 01, 2015 L1 Translation Vocabulary The return of translation: opportunities and pitfalls For most of the 20th century, there was a deep-rooted tradition in the ELT, which dates back to the Direct Method, that L1 in the classroom ...