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...
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...
I 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...
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...
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...
It 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...
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...
As 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...
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...
