Highly recommended ELT Blogs: Alan Tait

Essential ELT Blogs you should read (in alphabetical order)

A CLIL TO CLIMB Mark II - Chiew Pang

Punctuation..? A review - [image: A review of Thomas Bohm's Punctuation..?] Definition Macmillan defines it as “the use of marks such as full stops or commas in order to write in ...
10 years ago
Adam Beale's Five against one: Teaching against the odds.

The Noticing and Personalising Language Conundrum - Here is a free PowerPoint presentation I made in collaboration with Riccardo Chiappini. As the title suggests, we talk about how to get students to notice ...
3 years ago
Adam Simpson's One Year...

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Adrian Underhill and Jim Scrivener's Demand High ELT

Training for the Unpredictable - Improvisation by the teacher, both within and outside the lesson plan, are part of responding to the unpredictable learning moves of the student. It is a n...
9 years ago
Adrian Underhill’s Pron Chart Blog

Active fast speaking enables fast listening … - Learning to speak short phrases fast and fluently unlocks the ability to listen to rapid connected speech. It is not unlike learning to play and listen t...
5 years ago
Alan Tait's Hello Cruel World

Welcome A Board - Have you got mini-whiteboards for classroom use? If you haven't, or haven't ever seen them, this post will be in part a warm recommendation of them. But l...
10 years ago
Alex Grevett's The Breathy Vowel

Protected: Program Design: Principles Discussion Summary - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
7 years ago
Alexandra Chistyakova's ELT Diary

The Extraordinary and the Ordinary in the Language - I’m doing a Course on Understanding English dictionaries from Macmillan and Coventry University at Futurelearn.com (Link: https://www.futurelearn.com/cours...
4 years ago
Ana Cristina Pratas' Sky Box

Goosechase with Me? - Unsplash From online tools to mobile apps, there is a myriad of choices for educators and learners to engage with. Consider this infographic on messaging...
3 years ago
Anna Loseva's Space

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Anna Varna's In your hands

New beginnings - Hello dear readers This blog has been inactive for such a long time that some of you may think it has died. But no J, here I am again, teaching and bloggin...
5 years ago
Anne Hodgson's The Island Weekly

Hybrid courses - In the summer of 2021, I had the pleasure of attending a hybrid congress in Berlin: Die Grünen were kicking off their election campaign. The highlight of...
1 year ago
Anthony Gaughan's Teacher Training Unplugged

a question of trust - There is a basic relationship of trust that needs to be in place for a student to learn from a teacher, and for a teacher to teach a student. The student ...
6 years ago
Arjana Blazic's Traveloteacher

ReadTheory - I'm always on the lookout for new edtech tools to improve student reading skills. Check out my Wakelet collection with Online Reading Tools. This year I ...
3 years ago
Baiba Svenca's B's life with English

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8 years ago
Barb Sakamoto's Teaching Village

5 Innovative Ways to use YouTube in the Language Classroom - We all know how engaging videos can be – it’s so easy to get sucked into YouTube and spend hours watching everything from wildlife documentaries, to offi...
3 years ago
Barrie England's Caxton

New Blog - I no longer post here, but I have a new blog I have called The Trivial Round. Advertisements Filed under: Language
6 years ago
Ben Naismith's ELT Stew

Career Discombobulation - DISCLAIMER: If you’re looking for useful ELT content, look no further. Seriously, stop reading now. Stewing in the stew Some big changes are on the hori...
7 years ago
Ben Trawick-Smith's Dialect Blog

Break - Apologies for the light activity around here for the past year. I’ve been extremely busy for some time, and as such, my posting rate has slowed greatly. In...
9 years ago
Brad Patterson's A journée in language

Julie’s story: ELT Freelancing in France for over 30 years - This past week I met Julie Cummings-Debrot, a freelancer with her own company here in Paris – for a cup of coffee and a chat about teaching in France, co...
11 years ago
Burcu Akyol's Blog

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Candy van Olst's Stripe

You’re not from round here, are you? - I was out with friends having a perfectly fine Sunday somewhere down near the Thames in Berkshire. We were joined by a couple and the first thing that was ...
8 years ago
Cat Bethune's Escocesa in Madrid

Learning the hard way (again!) - Another academic year is well underway. How are your new classes going? I'm happy with my groups this year - only four different levels, which is definitel...
8 years ago
Ceci Lemos' Box of Chocolates

The Day a Bunch of Kisses Turned into Magic - It has been a long, looong while since I’ve last written here, in my blog. And before the last time it had also been a long while. I could use this post to...
10 years ago
Ceri Jones' Close Up

Emergent phonology - I’m teaching a group of C1 students at the moment. They’re university lecturers and the main aim of the course is to boost their confidence in their abilit...
5 years ago
Chia Suan Chong's blog

7 more ways native speakers can effectively communicate internationally - This article was first published on etprofessional.com, where I am a resident blogger. This is the final part of a 4-parter. You can read Part 1 here, Part...
5 years ago
Chris Ożóg's ELT Reflections

This Teacher Used This One Awesome Trick When Teaching and You Won’t Believe What happened Next (or how I learned to get learners talking in fewer than ten photocopies) - There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet¹ What do The Japanese Civil War, Batman vs Superman and “Tidying G...
7 years ago
Chronicles of a CELTA graduate

RSCON5 is almost here! - I stumbled upon this quote from Lowell Milken and I thought it rather apt. “The only people who develop human potential and character as a calling are educ...
9 years ago
Claire Hart's Business English Lesson Plans

Reflective practice and the business English teacher - Business English teachers are a bit of an unusual species in the ELT jungle you might say. They don´t spend their time with four year olds singing songs ab...
9 years ago
Common Errors in Use of English

A Sequestered Travelogue - *Notice: this is a bit off-topic, but I hope you’ll find it entertaining.* Like most people in our region I’m stuck at home sheltering from Covid-19 and ...
3 years ago
Dale Coulter's Language Moments

ELT Hackathon - Hackathons have become part of the professional lexicon in Berlin. The event, which can last anything from one day to a whole weekend and sometimes a whole...
9 years ago
Dave Dodgson's Reflections of a Teacher and Learner

When didn't the wheels fall off? #tdsigcarnival - *This post has been written as my contribution to the IATEFL TDSIG 2017 Web Carnival**- if you happen to be reading this post on or before the morning of t...
7 years ago
David Crystal's blog

Dreame on - The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream - i...
5 years ago
David Mainwood's THE LECTURER's EFL Smartblog

Links and Downloads not working thanks to dropbox - dropbox is not hosting links or downloads anymore. Try downloading the quiz files as html files here here or everything in a zip file here You shouldn't...
7 years ago
David Petrie's TEFL Geek

Some thoughts on giving feedback - This is a somewhat off the cuff post, having been asked by a UK based non-ELT teacher as to how ELT teachers tend to give feedback. Obviously I can’t answ...
2 years ago
David Warr's Language Garden

Rock Mclimbing* - “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest, or to the top of your career.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, one-time President o...
10 years ago
Diarmuid Fogarty's Action Research Journal

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Diarmuid Fogarty's Tao Te(a)Ching

A New Dawn - The koan A certain Bowie, first name Derek, was beginning as the new Director of Studies. He had a terrible stutter. The staff went more pallid than an unc...
4 years ago
Divya Brochier's Musings on Motivation in Language Learning

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Dogme Diaries (Chiew Pang's)

Improving listening sub-skills with music - In the summer, I’d done a few activities with music, one of which was blogged about here: We are the … Continue reading →
10 years ago
Edna Sackson's What Ed Said

The last post (I think…) - The first post on this blog was written in 2009. It was titled ‘Disturbing the Calm’, a concept which underpinned my vision and my work long past the origi...
1 year ago
ELT Experiences

Top Tips for Young Learner Teachers: Teacher Training Workshop - I gave a recent workshop on some of the best tips for teaching young learners. Please find the workshop video below. Enjoy!
7 years ago
ELTPics' Take a Photo and....

A picture is worth a thousand words - We thought you’d like another post from Brazil…… :), this time from a prolific lady eltpics contributor who really needs little introduction. ‘To know her ...
9 years ago
English Virtual Community

Nationalities - Some *nationalities *have nouns for referring two people. For example: a Finn, a Spaniard, a Dane, a Briton, an Arab. For most *nationalities *we can...
1 year ago
Eric Halvorsen's IheartELT

Task-Based Learning for One-to-One BE Contexts. My Talk at the #BESIG Summer Symposium - Here’s the link to my talk in Paris at the IATEFL BESIG Summer symposium: https://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/p56ud0lz5d7/?launcher=fals...
11 years ago
Eva Büyüksimkeşyan's A Journey in TEFL

Diffit - Diffit is an amazing tool. It saves teachers time by helping them create personalized resources that are just right for each student’s needs. With Diffit, ...
5 months ago
Evan Frendo's English for the workplace

IATEFL BESIG Annual Conference 3-5 November 2023 - Thanks to Clarice Chan for the photograph. This is the first blog post I have written in a while, but I really wanted to say a few words about an even...
5 months ago
Fiona Mauchline's Macappella

Girls just wanna…. - This post is related to a question I posted on Facebook on 3rd January, 2017. Nothing like starting the year with a wallop. Skip it if you don’t want your...
7 years ago
Fiona Mauchline's other blog: Blood, sweat and gazpacho

A Brave New World - Downward dog with bum held high and fingers splayed on either side, Stretching chest towards the floor, high on tiptoes, squeeze in core. Back is easing, sh...
4 years ago
George CHilton's Designer Lessons

Would you like to hear the good news or the bad news first? – A Guest Lesson by Myles Klynhout - In this lesson students will be encouraged to notice how they naturally react to news in their own language, and highlight how they could perform the same ...
8 years ago
Graham Stanley's blog-efl

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Henrick Oprea's Doing Some Thinking

Rethinking AI’s Role in Education: Purpose and Questions - I’ve recently attended an event in which there was very brief talk followed by dinner with other educators. In addition to general conversations about the ...
4 weeks ago
Hugo and Martynas's WordAid

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Ian James' TeflTecher : Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl Teachers

New Viralelt Post – Do not enter - New post (“Please do not enter“) over at Viralelt. Filed under: 1
9 years ago
iasku, Chiew Pang's Interview Blog

2012 in review - The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading, watching, and special thanks to those who have take...
11 years ago
iTDi's Blog: For teachers by teachers

The Bullet or the Ballot Lesson Plan - The Bullet or the Ballot Lesson Plan Craig Wherlock (Greece) shares a lesson plan he uses to encourage students to think critically about the civil righ...
2 years ago
Işıl Boy's Ed Tech

Eğitim ve Eğitim’de yayınlanan röportajımız: - ETZ17 bu sefer de “Sihire Yolculuk” diyor Eğitim Teknolojileri Zirvesi (ETZ) 4. kez 4 Mart 2017`de yapılacak. Bu yılki tema “Sihire Yolculuk”. Etkinliği ço...
7 years ago
James Taylor's TheTeacherJames

#ELTchat summary on Sugata Mitra and 25 Questions He Needs To Answer - On Saturday 5th of April at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, Sugata Mitra delivered a plenary session that proved to be acclaimed and vilified at the...
10 years ago
Jamie Keddie's Lessonstream

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Janet Bianchini's Abruzzo Edublog

OUP Webinar: Using Games for win-win learning - Attending webinars from the comfort of your own home is a fantastic experience! *Image courtesy of google images* This morning I attended an excellent OUP...
6 years ago
Jason Renshaw's English Raven

What my kids teach me about elearning design - I reflected (or, more accurately, quipped) recently on social media about the benefits of being a learning designer for dads, as a follow up to the sharing...
10 years ago
Jemma Gardner's Unplugged Reflections

Each To Their Own. - It’s fairly typical to have different levels of learner within language schools. Whether or not you agree with the thinking behind this, it is common in mo...
11 years ago
Jennifer Lebedev's English with Jennifer

Developing the Right Mindset for Using AI - TESOLers in Tampa had a myriad of sessions on AI to choose from. Presenters approached the subject from different angles and explained how they had been us...
9 hours ago
Jennifer Marten's Teach From The Heart

No Kid Needs 48 Pencils The First Day of School - As an elementary teacher for 21 years, I know there were supplies I asked for that never got used – … Continue reading →
6 years ago
Jeremy Harmer's Blog

Where do ideas come from? - I didn’t want to write this blog post. I still don’t want to but events, and the ever-grinding wheels of the ELT rumour mill, make it almost unavoidable. C...
6 years ago
Josette LeBlanc's Throwing Back Tokens

Throwing Back Tokens’ Change of Venue - Hello dear readers, My apologies for the confusion, but I have moved my blog over to a new address, www.throwingbacktokens.wordpress.com. Please click on t...
9 years ago
Karenne Sylvester's Kalinago English

I'm returning to edublogging! - It's been around eleven years since I was last referred to as Queen of the EduELT blogosphere, when Kalinago English had a readership of around a million...
1 year ago
Ken Wilson's Blog

Books I wrote… - Since I first became a published author of English Language Teaching materials fifty years ago in 1971, I have contributed to another 30+ ELT publications....
3 years ago
Kevin Stein's The Other Things Matter

A move to WordPress - Hi all, A big thank you to everyone for your support over the past two years. Realizing that this blog keeps growing and that the options for making it na...
10 years ago
Kieran Donaghy's Film English

‘Subway Knitter’ Lesson Plan - This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled Subway Knitter and the theme of knitting. Students learn vocabulary related to knitting, tal...
2 days ago
Kieran McGovern's English Language FAQ

Where does the word tsumami come from? - Tsunami is a Japanese word combining 'tsu' (port)with 'nami' wave. This word seems to have replaced the more technical 'tidal wave' in public discussion.A ...
4 days ago
Laura Phelps's The Daily Ptefldactyl

No, I'm not a 'proficient English language speaker' - I’ve just been on Dave’s ESL Cafe. Not because I want to work 60 hours a week in a ropey kindergarten, but to see how companies are wording their recruitme...
8 years ago
Leo Selivan's Leoxicon

News Quiz 2023: follow up - *Activities for reviewing and recycling the language **from News Quiz 2023* Image credits: Isaac Mayne/DCMS, Steve Swayne [Public Domain]; Les Zg [CC BY-...
3 months ago
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator

3 Free Technologies to Help Students Learn to Read - Once taught through traditional methods, the fundamental skill of reading has become much easier to acquire via the use of technology. Technology provides ...
7 months ago
Luiz Otávio's English Language Teaching Page

7 reasons to learn a foreign language - I didn’t choose English so much as it chose me. Somehow it crept its way into my life and ended up shaping my education, my interests, and my career. Tod...
4 months ago
Luke Meddings's Unplugged Index

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Luke Thompson's English Podcast

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Macmillan's Dictionary Blog

Stories behind Words: Hogmanay - This post from the Stories behind Words series is from 2014. Happy 2021 everyone! 31st December, the last night of the year in the Western calendar, is ce...
3 years ago
Marisa Constantinides' TEFL Matters

4 Ways DELTA Module 2 Made me a Better Academic Manager - by Geoffrey Adamson Words like ‘management’ and ‘human resources’ do not come up often in conversations in or about DELTA Module 2. Terms like these, it se...
1 year ago
Martin Sketchley's ELT Experiences

Why Should Teachers Blog? - Last week, I was inducting some new teachers into our school: preparing them for their teaching career for the year ahead. We looked at various areas about...
7 years ago
Michael Griffin's ELT Rants, Reviews, and Reflections

Partially Informed Notes about English Instructors at Universities in Vietnam - Long-time readers of this blog might not be aware that I left Korea in 2019! Greetings from Ho Chi Minh City! A dear friend of mine is coming to Vietnam so...
5 months ago
Mignon Fogarty's Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips

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Miguel Mendoza's eFL

Stop in the name of love: no more autoplay, Mark, please - OK. Yeah, it has been ages since the last time I wrote a post here...But, you know, life, work or maybe my lazy fingers...OK. I have been reading these pos...
9 years ago
Mike Harrison

Images of the Week: New 2023 Updates - If you’re serious about turning your blog into a business, then you need to start thinking about ways to grow your audience. Depending on your niche, the...
9 months ago
Naomi Epstein's Visualising Ideas

When Students Jump To Conclusions – A new VISUAL LESSON - There are days when I think I should begin awarding certificates for “long jumps” – some of my students excel at jumping! Jumping to conclusions, that i...
3 weeks ago
Neal Whitman's Literal-Minded

A Slither of Justice - Agatha Christie meets Black Mirror. That’s how I would describe a book I just finished listening to, called The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (or curio...
5 years ago
Nicky Hockly's E-Moderation Station

Teaching English with Technology – does it work? Part 2 - This post continues to address the question posed in Part 1: Do digital technologies actually help students learn English? I pose two more statements and c...
6 years ago
Nik Peachey's Learning Technology Blog

The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications - The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications This app has been designed to help teachers in the physical and remote classroom. - The app is...
1 year ago
Nik Peachey's QuickShout

Teachwise - A platform to save time and reduce stress for teachers - Over the last couple of years the teaching profession has gone through huge changes and most of these have seen more demands put on teachers and greater...
2 years ago
Not exactly ELT, but every teacher loves to travel!

The Look of Love: El Palacete Rodríguez Quegles - The 25th Canarian Jazz Festival came to an end on 24th July, stretching over more than 2 weeks, entertaining thousands throughout the archipelago, bringing...
7 years ago
Oli Beddall's An Experiment with Dogme

Settling for a compromise? - I haven’t written a post for quite some time and I’d like to talk a bit about my classes and the extent to which Dogme is playing a part. My blog is called...
11 years ago
Original poems for ELT use:Teen at heart

Solace in the perfect conditional - I would have loved to hear you sing to me, underneath the autumn leaves of our favourite tree, looking up to the clear vivid celestial blue skies. I woul...
11 years ago
Oxford University Press - English Language Teaching Global Blog @OUPELTGlobal

How Graded Readers and Engaging Activities Can Ignite Student Interest in the Magic of Books - If contemporary societies view reading as an essential life skill, loving to read is definitely “the” gift that makes all the difference in a person’s li...
18 hours ago
OxfordWords blog | Oxford Dictionaries Online

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Ozge Karaoglu's Blog

10 Tips to Use ChatGPT - Here are some tips that will help you while you use ChatGPT: 1. Be Specific: Make clear and specific questions or prompts for better responses. Example: Va...
8 months ago
Phil Wade's EFL thoughts and reflections

Racist pronunciation work - I’ve never been a fan of pron work. Back in the day, students learned the symbols then spent hours in the lab listening to natives and covering themselves ...
11 years ago
ProjectPLN

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or … "Hello world!" の続きを読む
5 years ago
Rachael Roberts's elt-resourceful

Developing Teachers with a Growth Mindset - This is a guest post by Gabriella Lawson, Teacher Developer for Monash College English Language Centre. Gaby is responsible for helping to develop teachers...
4 years ago
Random Idea English

- As well as being an adjective (a pretty girl, pretty flowers) etc, pretty can be an adverb - modifying an adjective: - She's pretty intelligent ...
2 years ago
Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers

Seven Mind Mapping Tools to Try This Year - Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is often to...
8 months ago
Richard Whiteside's I'd like to think that I help people to learn English

What advice would you have for newly qualified teachers? - I recently wrote another guest blog post for SGI. Having been asked to share some thoughts on advice that would be worth passing on to newly qualified teac...
11 years ago
Scott Thornbury's An A-Z of ELT (museum)

D is for Dictionary - (This post was timed to coincide with the most recent update of the Macmillan English Dictionary, and first appeared on the Macmillan Dictionary blog here...
6 years ago
Sharon Hartle's English learning in Our World

Remote Teaching and COVID-19 - Times of Change At this point in time communication is changing in unprecedented ways that have yet to reveal themselves clearly. The COVID-19 crisis has b...
3 years ago
Shelly Terrell's Teacher Reboot Camp

AI Tools to Fuel Student Imagination - “I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature cou...
7 months ago
Stan Carey's Sentence First

Banjaxed and bockety words in Ireland - ‘Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we’d be banjaxed.’ (Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot) Banjaxed and bockety are a fun pair of words in the Iri...
1 month ago
Subversive Teaching - 52 support site

Bailout – how one teacher used this ad! - Hi everyone We’ve come out of summer break to share with you all a post we came across via Twitter on The Teacher James’ blog. We really liked the way he e...
11 years ago
Sue Lyon Jones's The PLN Staff Lounge

About This Site - Who is This Blog Written For? This blog is mainly written for English language teachers, although other teachers who are interested in using technology or ...
5 years ago
Sue Swift's An ELT Notebook

Language Matters - Genre Analysis: Customer Reviews - Below you will find eight customer reviews of tourist attractions in the UK taken from tripadvisor.com Can you identify one feature of content and at lea...
1 week ago
Tamas Lorincz's A journey into learning

My first post - There are over 133 million blogs on the Internet. To assume that there is something in the 133,000,001st is a bit presumptuous, so say the least. Continue ...
14 years ago
Teflpedia - a wiki all about teaching English

McGraw-Hill Education - Created page with "'''McGraw-Hill Education''' is a publisher of educational materials, based in the United States. == External links == * https://www.mh...
14 hours ago
TEFLtastic with Alex Case

New articles for ESL learners page - I’ve mainly written articles on how to teach this, that and the other, so I only recently thought to make a page with links to all of my articles for peopl...
1 month ago
The Consultants-E's Blog

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The Grammarphobia Blog

The earliest English writing - Q: You often quote examples of writing from Anglo-Saxon times to illustrate the history of a usage. What is the earliest example of English writing that ...
4 days ago
The Round

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5 years ago
Tom Walton's Tech ELT Blog

10 factors that may (or may not) influence how successful technology is for you in a classroom - The list below — for the purposes of debate only — is for a forthcoming workshop I'll be doing (yes, I know, I did say I'd retired, but I couldn't resist t...
7 years ago
Tony Gurr's All Things Learning

The 2020 EDU, ELT/ELL and EDTECH Conference Calendar for Canım Türkiyem…Ver 2.4 - 8 Sevgili Hocalarim, We have entered a brand-spanking-new DECADE…and while it may not have got off to the “best” start… I’m kinda hoping that this LATEST U...
4 years ago
Tyson Seburn's 4C

Love to @TDSIG - Six years ago, I wrote a love letter to teaching associations as my time on our local TESL Toronto Committee was coming to an end. Much of my perspective o...
1 year ago
Vicky Loras's Blog

Support for the Swiss Federal English Exam of the Direktionassistenten/-innen Course - Are you considering taking the Swiss Federal English Exam of the Direktionassistenten/innen Course (Berufsprüfung Direktionsassistent/-innen)? The Loras Ne...
7 years ago
Vicky Saumell's blog

- Principles for Meaningful Technology Integration * Principles for Meaningful Technology Integration * from *Vicky Saumell* Presented at *11th Anglo Congr...
8 years ago
Vladimira Michalkova's Notebook of Surpr@ise

Giving the gift - I may be writng from the heart of a woman and so writing for women mainly but anyone can find something in this post (if you are looking for balance and un...
10 years ago
Willy Cardoso's Authentic Teaching

Top 10 ELT books never written - In no particular order and without any criteria, here are (in my expert opinion) the best books in English Language ... Continue reading
8 years ago
Yitzha Sarwono's Posterous

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Highly recommended ELT Blogs

Essential ELT Blogs you should read (in alphabetical order)

Friday 25 November 2011

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