THE ROOM 1953 Picture a small room – it’s quite dark inside despite the bright blue sunshine outside, because the two windows are small and the blinds are unrolled and down. The floor is tiled and cold to the touch, with alternate black and white ten-inch tiles which make it look like a chess board. It’s ...

It is 60 years since John and Brita Haycraft moved to Cordoba, Spain, and the idea of International House was born from the first few students they taught in their tiny flat.  Little did they know that from those humble beginnings would grow a worldwide network of language schools.  For this very special edition of ...

Our Action Research program came from a desire to encourage teachers to grow professionally and continue their training in a more autonomous way. In a move away from top-down teacher development, with everyone working on the same teaching skill at the same time, eight years ago we were given the opportunity to begin experimenting with ...

Dogme ELT In his article A Dogme for EFL, Scott Thornbury called on fellow teachers to join him in an effort to ‘restore teaching to its pre-method “state of grace” – when all there was was a room with a few chairs, a blackboard, a teacher, and some students, and where learning was jointly constructed out ...

AIM: To improve high level student pronunciation and their autonomy in this regard by using iPad applications TARGET GROUP: 6 Proficiency students TIME FRAME: February – May 2012 Identifying the problem area: For several years I have taught very high level learners in preparation for the CPE exam. The resounding area in which everyone needs improvement is pronunciation. As Coe ...

Whatever the future may bring, it seems pretty clear that mobile permanent connectivity of some form will be part of it. Just as we might concentrate on listening skills or sharing with YLs to effectively help our learners to communicate, we will need to integrate the teaching of digital literacies with the effective use of ...