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The question: Is online education good education? The answer is very easy!

  New era, new standards, new challenges, new me, new students, new everything. Or not really? In my country the question of whether online education is the way to go during lockdown has been hot. Burning hot. And there have been two answers. Clear, distinct, vociferous: yes and no. Funny, right? In reality, the question boils down to yes or no to...

How important is pronunciation for the teacher’s and student’s confidence?

Author: Anthony Antonopoulos
  By Anthony Antonopoulos, BA & MA EFL Teacher specialized in ICT- Vlogger A year or so ago, I met my partner in a conversational class while I was teaching in Scotland. Ever since, we’ve been continuously exchanging languages. She’s learning English and I’m learning Italian. We’ve spent hours talking about English and Italian grammar, vocabulary...

15 Pieces of Timeless Teaching and Learning Advice

PIECES OF TIMELESS TEACHING AND LEARNING ADVICEI like lists and judging by how popular they are for online articles and videos, I am not the only one. A good list helps clarify things, puts them in a logical order and inspires you to get things done. A few years ago, I subscribed to the Alux.com YouTube channel with its motivational videos based around the subject of lists. They have a business bent...

What is the future of assessment?

Nick Saville, Director of Research and Thought Leadership, Cambridge Assessment English  Greece has always played an important role in English language assessment and has become a hotbed of research and discussion in our sector. But what does the future of assessment hold for Greece and beyond?  In many ways the restrictions we’ve all faced this year as...

CopyCats (or the use of Copywork in language learning)

Author: Maria Davou
By Maria Davou “You can’t really copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling.” — Billie Holliday It’s been more than 15 years now that I have asked my teaching team to stop assigning Copywork to our students. I found zero resistance from them. I think everyone was relieved to get rid of this...

How long does it take to reach C1 and C2 Level?

teenager reading sofaIt takes at least 18 years in general for a native speaker to reach C1 level in his own language, so you can hardly expect that a teenage or adult foreigner can take any less than a decade to approach that level. The CEFR framework is a quantitative indication of a qualitative set of complex social skills, each of which may be acquired, practiced...

Teacher-Student Compatibility: A Construct or Reality?

Constructs are powerful entities, casually considered self-evident. A set of constructs is bequest and left to drive our decisions, attitude and conduct. They are omnipresent, pervasive and often unrecognized as such; thereby, they are risky because they can hijack our ability for good judgement. Compatibility, the sense of familiarity and increased...

Teaching will be online for the foreseeable future

portrait young pretty woman sitting table black shirt working laptop co working officeAs the COVID-19 Pandemic runs its course, many governments are implementing measures that limit the number of people congregating in public places. Such measures have disrupted the normal functioning of schools and universities. The duration of such measures has been extensive – and is likely to continue for a certain time until a vaccine becomes...

Grammar in EFL teaching

raptopoulos grammar  By George Raptopoulos, Teacher and Teacher Trainer In this article, we will explore why we must teach grammar, when, how and how much. Why teach grammar? Well, if words are the building blocks of a language, then grammar is the mortar we employ to connect the lexical content into meaningful utterings (phrases, sentences, paragraphs), so eventually we...

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