Articles published in the ‘Issue 24: Spring 2008’ Category
by Alex Rossi Q: Do you feel stuck in a training job going nowhere? Q: Are you underappreciated, underpaid and overworked – teaching the uninspired and the uninspiring? Q: Is the next rung on the teacher-training ladder tantalizingly out of your reach? Q: Is there even a ladder available to grasp at? Q: Are you wondering whether that ladder you ...
by Max Orlando Teaching Business English (BE) and General English (GE) differ in a number of ways. Ellis and Johnson (1996: 10 – 13) speak about key differences within the following areas: needs analysis, assessment of level, syllabus design, course objectives, time management, learner expectations, materials, methodology and evaluation of progress. Our point of departure will ...
by Jeff Stanford Following on from Roger Hunt’s enthusiastic article ‘Online Teacher Training’ in the IH Journal, Spring 2007, this article looks at the experience of five teacher training centres that have used Moodle to run a virtual element on their CELTA teacher training courses. It’s not all plain sailing, but most centres agree that using ...
by Mark Lowe 1. Happy Birthday Michael Halliday, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, is one of the great linguists of our time. Like his equally illustrious fellow-linguist, Chomsky, he has now turned 80. Everyone concerned with language will wish to celebrate. Continuum Publishers are celebrating by bringing out a new 10-volume edition of ...
Through winter, rides between Oslo and Hammerfest use thirty hours up in a bus, though why travellers would select to ride there then might be pondered. It was Noam Chomsky who observed that even though almost all the language children hear being spoken around them is presumably grammatically ‘correct’ they still manage to develop a near-perfect ...
Introduction In a previous article I shared how extensive reading could be exploited to develop oral proficiency (Baker, 2007). Omaggio (1986) provided the definition of oral proficiency which served as my reference. Omaggio’s definion states, “oral proficiency includes the ability to communicate verbally in a functional and accurate way in the target language.” I included communicative ...
The ETPD that will be considered in this article stands for English through Personal Development. The first question to ask is why and the answer is simple - for surely there can be nothing more important in life. If we start with the assumption that ‘the main purpose of higher education is to facilitate and expand ...
An “old chestnut” is a subject or joke that has been repeated so many times that it is no longer funny or interesting. This is what I learnt from my Director (being from Australia, I’m lucky to even know what a chestnut is!), who wanted to discuss recurring issues that seem to plague even some ...
1 Introduction The idea of teachers’ life cycles isn’t new. I first became familiar with it when reading Amy Tsui’s book on expertise in teaching. The notion that teachers pass through a career cycle matched my own experience, and it helped to provide a useful way of thinking about supervising teachers, since my particular concern was ...
In March 2007 International House London moved back to Covent Garden, the area where our first school in London started in 1959, after Cordoba. The very name Covent Garden was already famous, synonymous with the legendary Opera House and its wartime ballet performances, seen in films like Waterloo Bridge and The Red Shoes. It was built ...