The Secrets to Exam Success are no Secrets
Helping Students Navigate through Exams The acquisition of a foreign language, the mission to teach it, aiming at full or…
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Forcing My Students to Sit for Exams
By this point in our careers, we’ve practically seen it all. Students who are indifferent to learning a language, others…
Exam Time and the teaching is…
This isn’t the first time ELT NEWS has delved into language exams, and it certainly won’t be the last. Our…
Christmas
The word ‘Christmas’ has its origins in the Christian religious tradition and can be traced back to Old English and…
LIMITING PASSIVE LEARNING THROUGH PROJECT WORK
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”, goes the saying and I would add that a project a month…
Fostering Gratitude in Young Learners: From Entitled to Appreciative
As educators, our role goes beyond imparting academic knowledge; we are entrusted with shaping the character and values of our…
ELT’s next day: Tech, Tradition and the Unexpected
Language teaching is changing, blending old ways with new tricks. I believe that in the years to come, ELT will…
Why I stopped spending time on preparing elaborate materials to teach the language: the joy of focusing on the learner and the learning environment!
I am one of those educators who has to try everything in order to adopt it or reject it. Especially…
HOMO SAPIENS MY FOOT!
What made you choose this particular topic? It all started with a story. Back in the 1990s, the famous physicist…
Solidarity speech acts and the philosophy of performative language in education
Introduction The aim of this article is to stress the performative nature of solidarity discourse, that is the view of…