Tag Archives: guest writers
Guest piece – What has grammar teaching ever done for us? by Jo Gakonga
Grammar teaching gets a bad press. It’s old fashioned, it is said, and it doesn’t help in actually using the language. Scott Thornbury sums it up beautifully in verse here–we teach them the form, but they can’t actually use it. … Continue reading
TEFLing without teaching
A guest post by newish TEFL blogger and TEFL.net reviews volunteer Jo Cummins: “About two years ago, when pregnant with my son, I gave up my teaching job and moved countries and haven’t (for reasons to lengthy too get into) … Continue reading
Guest posts from people outside TEFL
Took me a while to work out that it was spam the first time I was offered one, but the signs are easy to spot once you’ve had a few emails on the topic. For some strange reason they almost always offer … Continue reading
Guest piece – What’s the future of ELT publishing? by Vicki Hollett
If anyone would know, it would be Ms Hollett, author of many successful and well-loved textbooks and also the consistent online TEFL favourite Learning to Speak ‘merican. Unfortunately there are more questions than answers below, but they are very stimulating … Continue reading
Guest piece- Doing the YL Extension to the CELTA
Apparently many prospective TEFL teachers nowadays think that 4 weeks is too long to study to become a teacher. Luckily, there are also the dedicated few like Jo Gillespie who decide to make the whole CELTA thing longer while also properly learning … Continue reading
That's the way to do it!
A reader very kindly wrote to me about a week ago with a wonderful worksheet attached whose initial spark apparently came from TEFLtastic, and then agreed to my begging to publish it (although linking to it elsewhere would have been … Continue reading
Keeping YLs on Task Part One
A guest piece by new(ish) blogger Leahn Stanhope http://www.earlyefl.blogspot.com “Part of the battle of teaching YLs (young learners) is keeping them interested and on task. Here is the first part of a series of activities that I have tried and … Continue reading
The Benefits of Exams for Young Learners
A guest piece from Michelle Worgan of So This is English blog (www.inspireyourlearners.blogspot.com ). “I am usually quite reluctant to use formal assessment with my students, young or old, and rarely give them exams or tests. However, while I was … Continue reading
How do we know if what we say is “right”?
…Check the corpus, of course. Another great guest piece from Carmela Chateau. “Like many other people, I became a teacher of English because it was the easiest option. After all, I’d been speaking the language since the age of three … Continue reading
Guest piece- Why I Mentor
A guest piece by Paula Swenson, long term TEFL.net reviewer and all round star “Mentoring, mysteriously, seems to be something of a hot-button topic. You know the type of thing that causes people to write flaming, emotion –laden replies to … Continue reading
