Articles published in the ‘Issue 27: Autumn 2009’ Category
by Louise Stringer, IH Budapest Ever felt that your textbook is all wrong for your class, but couldn’t bring yourself to dump it, or felt guilty for letting lessons go off on a tangent after a student brings up something interesting? Teaching Unplugged may help you feel differently about situations like these. The first book to ...
reviewed by Raquel Rumor, IH Toronto Ben Goldstein’s Working with Images: A resource book for the language classroom focuses on using images as the central text in the language classroom. The book successfully attempts to address and discuss why images have been traditionally used as accessories to the written text, and have not been ...
Reviewed by Lucia Berenguer, IH Montevideo When we teach a language, we should tackle the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). Taking into account all of them, which one do you think is the least valued? Which one has the smallest number of available resources? Which one is generally the most difficult to learn? If ...
Editorial IH History International House Hastings: a personal perspective – Bill Harris Classroom Matters Using video: practice – Sebastian Taylor No news is bad news! – A. Majid Hayati Debating in the EFL classroom – Thomas Baker Giving presentations – David Moran The Learner Researching learning styles at IH Mexico – Orlando Mata Understanding Your Japanese students – Andrew Moxon Phonology Pronunciation clinic – John Owens /p/ ...
reviewed by Barbara Muszynska, IH Wroclaw Why bother with listening? This book, as the title suggests, addresses the area of listening. The author provides convincing reasons as to why we need to revise our orthodox approach to the teaching of listening skills in the EFL classroom. It is divided into six parts, all of which are well and ...
IHWO News – Autumn 2009 Lucy Horsefield - Chief Operating Officer, International House World Organisation lucy.horsefield@ihworld.co.uk The IHWO Ltd had a busy and productive summer. As well as welcoming 5 new schools to the network in the past 2 months we launched our online DOS course and the DELTA 1 Exam prep course. Now as the winter draws ...
By Mark Lowe The stimulus for this article came from ‘English through Music’, a book published by OUP in its Oxford Basics for Children series. I was asked to review it by the editor of the IH Journal. The book was fine as far as it went; however, it did not go very far. There were ...
By John Owens The first Pronunciation Clinic course at IH Vietnam started in Hanoi in 1999. There have been 30 courses in Hanoi and 21 in Ho Chi Minh City so far. Pron Clinic is made available not only for General English classes, but also corporate classes. So far the following corporate clients have signed on ...
By Sebastian Taylor In my first article (in the last issue of the IH Journal), I looked at some important features of video material and summarised some of the research that has been done into its use within an EFL/ESL teaching context. I also offered a brief outline of some of the factors a language teacher ...