Articles published in the ‘Issue 44: June 2018’ Category
By Alan McGuire > I’m going to discuss the stresses of being a new teacher at International House Madrid and how I managed to make it through my initial years of teaching, as a new English language teacher, moving abroad with little language awareness and no teaching experience. Then I’m going to discuss how I managed ...
By Mike Bridge > Since leaving the UK seven years ago, change has both interested and intrigued me. On my biannual visits to the UK, I have observed many small changes such as different notes and coins, a range of free magazines at the stations and craft beer in cans. And hasn’t the EFL world changed ...
By David Petrie > There is something of a reluctance in printed materials to engage with the idea of the “bad model”. Most books contain model performances of speaking and writing so that the students can look at these and see what their target is, following a product approach to some extent, and perhaps the reluctance ...
Reviewed by Bernardo Morales > The Celta Teaching Compendium by Rachael Roberts aims to provide teachers with a quick reference to most of the skills taught in initial teacher training courses such as the CELTA or Trinity CertTESOL and it does so in a way that is easy to navigate (the skills are ordered alphabetically) and ...