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To The TEFL A Teacher
15/02/2015 09:13
To The TEFL A Teacher
A favorite movie is Bedazzled (1967), starring Hollywood ‘Babylon’ sex symbol and actress, Raquel Welch, as ‘Lust` among the `seven deadly sins` which, according to the established churches, result in the individual`s going to perdition, that is, ‘eternal unendurable...
International English Language Testing System
10/02/2015 10:37
International English Language Testing System
Most children in primary education in the United Kingdom have been exposed to the IQ Test phenomenon, which requires them to complete a few simple questions to ascertain what intelligence quotient the test preparers have decided to...
Our Man In Dammam
04/02/2015 11:34
Our Man In Dammam
Writing science fiction stories, while travelling the world as an English language teacher, was fraught. Aliens appeared everywhere in the guise of peepers trying to see what it was that the budding `sci fi` genius was engaged in, while preparing to condemn him as another...
Cost Of Living Survey, Pseudi Yarubeer
01/10/2014 08:14
Cost Of Living Survey, Pseudi Yarubeer
After Bullitz language skull `headhunted` me in accordance with the British head chuck occasion system, whereby those who showed any sign of having the intellectual wherewithal to escape wage slavery were consigned to be wasted, like basketballs in...
Collaborative Writing
30/06/2014 17:54
Collaborative Writing
The use of small group and pair work is supported by two major theories of language learning: the psycholinguistic theory of interaction, based largely on the work of Long (1983; 1996), and the sociocultural theory of mind, Vygotsky (1978). Both theories...
Teaching English Vocabulary
30/06/2014 17:48
Teaching English Vocabulary
Teaching vocabulary is important, and more than presenting and introducing. Knowing words isn`t memorizing. What students need is meaning in context and how words are used through correct instruction, which is vocabulary selection, word knowledge, and the...
The Use of Team Teaching and its Effect on EFL Students' Proficiency in English
30/06/2014 16:42
The Use of Team Teaching and its Effect on EFL Students' Proficiency in English
Having taken a Bell-Obeikan International Placement Test, six EFL students classes (each comprising 20 EFL students) from the King Saud University`s Preparatory Year Diploma program, Riyadh, were first...
Team Unteaching
11/01/2014 14:53
Team Unteaching
Team teaching is big in the countries of the world that want to learn English, or do they? In places as disparate as Cartomb, Sedan, and Triple ‘E’, Livya, Yours Truly has encountered the phenomenon of team unteaching, where the classroom workload has been divided between a...
Positions Hollywood
12/04/2013 08:56
Positions Hollywood
Stud`nts are always asking the question: `What`s a good way to learn English?` Learning by reading is true. However, it’s necessary to be interested, which is what makes you interesting. Conversation is then possible because you have something to talk about with people...
The ELT Interview: with Crazy Bob
10/04/2013 10:55
The ELT Interview: with Crazy Bob
ELT: Well, it's a great pleasure for us to get to finally talk to you Dr Robin. Our pants are wet as we speak. Could you just recap as to why you teach English language?
Dr Robin: They have my family. If I don't do what they say, they'll hurt them....
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