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Players In The Classroom
A post by Peadar Callaghan A Multi-player online (MMO) game is very similar to a modern day classroom. They are both created environments with different ways to interact with material that is being supplied, either by the teacher (in the case of the classroom) or the server (...Article January 27, 2015
Adding Content to Language - Presenting Text!
A post by Rob Dickey There's more to English than the nuts and bolts of the language. As with any language, it's meaningful only in context. Unless you are dedicated to strict-translation or the grammar-translation or audio-lingual methods, you probably use content in your...Article January 27, 2015
Blindness
by Justin Ancheta Recently, one of my favorite paintings has been Pieter Breugel the Elder's “The Blind Leading The Blind”. While it's ostensibly an illustration of Matthew 15:14, it's taken on a variety of meanings to a variety of people. For me, it's an illustration of the...Article March 26, 2015
The Responsibilties of Communication
by Justin Ancheta Many years ago, I had the chance to attend a university-level summer engineering camp in high school. Towards the end, there was small-group activity centered around the Challenger Disaster of 1986. My group represented the engineers who were pleading with...Article June 13, 2015
Stop Talking so Much!
by Jackie Bolen When many teachers first start off their time in the classroom, they talk a lot (this is one feature of a teacher-centered classroom) and way more than they actually should. If you want your students to get better at speaking in English, they need to be...Article June 8, 2015
Speaking Tests: My Favorite and Not So Favorite Options
by Jackie Bolen There are a few different options for speaking tests for your conversation classes, all of which have their advantages and disadvantages in terms of teacher effort, ease of grading and how well it measures what you’re trying to measure. I'll briefly...Article June 17, 2015
English Teacher Burnout: How to Avoid It
by Jackie Bolen It's That Time Again... You know that feeling you get when you teach the ABCs one more time, or that unit in the book about movies or weather? Or, the students who email you asking for a higher grade when they've done nothing to deserve it? Or,...Article August 3, 2015
Korea as a dynamic hub of PD?
By Michael Griffin What do Thomas Farrell, Barbara Sakamoto, Claire Kramsch, Chuck Sandy, Willy Renandya, and Jeremy Harmer have in common? Aside from being huge names in our field they are all people who were scheduled to give talks in South Korea in calendar...Article July 17, 2015
Top 10 Ways to Make your Conversation Class Even More Awesome
by Jackie Bolen Speaking and conversation classes are what many of us find ourselves teaching in Korea, a lot of the time. I'm sure you want to make them as interesting, engaging and awesome as possible, right? Here are my top 10 tips to make your conversation...Article August 19, 2015