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...

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...

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...

AAAL2015 convention: highlights, insights and implications

Rod Ellis presenting While in Toronto for TESOL 2015 convention  last month, I also attended - for the first time - the AAAL (American Assoc...

News quiz 2014 - Follow up

Activities for reviewing language (vocabulary and some grammar) from News Quiz 2014 Image by DLR   via Wikimedia Commons [ CC BY 3.0 de ] As...

Closely connected

Photo by Sudhamshu Hebbar on Flickr [CC BY 2.0] An article written by the British linguist Vyvyan Evans entitled “Language Instinct is a My...

End-of-year news quiz 2013

Traditional quiz for your first lesson in 2014 By lasanta.com.ec  via Flickr [CC BY 2.0] For some reason I had a hard time coming up with ne...

The highway to fluency and a roundabout way to grammar

Photo by @GoldsteinBen via eltpics on Flickr A second lesson with two new pre-intermediate (A2) students (I usually put my private student...