Category Archives: Journal

Correction or Feedback?

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

Correction or Feedback? Last week I wrote a few thoughts on correction and how both oral and written language can be corrected meaningfully, in a separate stage from “within the task itself”. One advantage of doing this work as a separate … Continue reading →

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Is it an Error not to Correct?

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

To correct or not to correct? Different teachers have different views on this question, sometimes based on well thought out theories, or observation of learning in practice, and sometimes… Well, sometimes not. Being corrected: how does it feel? The thinking … Continue reading →

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Teaching mindfully and Facing exams courageously

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

I’m Back I suddenly realised that I haven’t blogged on my poor, neglected space since September!! I can only hang my head in shame and mutter excuses about how tied up I’ve been with conference sin Prague, the student blog … Continue reading →

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Lessons from My Office Hours

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

What is the point of Failure and what can it teach us?   I know this title sounds pretty bleak but it is partly the result of an episode that happened this week during my office hours, and that I … Continue reading →

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Keeping an eye on the Big Picture but don’t let it terrify you!

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

Keeping an eye on the Big Picture but don’t let it terrify you! I’ve noticed recently how a lot of us want to learn everything straight away, and my students, despite the fact they are all intelligent young people become … Continue reading →

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Backache, large classes and HootCourse in the classroom

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

I was reading just this morning in Brabara Hoskins Sakamoto’s lovely Teaching Village blog about how tired we teachers are all feeling at the moment, and how important it is not to burn the candle at both ends but to … Continue reading →

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The Silence of the Audience

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

This is an image from the recent Iatefl Conference in Glasgow and it encapsulates one idea which we associate with conferences: the idea of the “speaker” empowered, up on his or her pedestal, dispensing wisdom to the hushed audience, in … Continue reading →

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Fast Forward from Iatefl Glasgow 2012

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Fast Forward…From Glasgow back to everyday life I’ve actually been back from Glasgow for almost a week now and as time passes your brain begins to put things into order, classifying the kaleidoscope of talks, ideas, peoples, impressions that whirled … Continue reading →

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Thoughts from Glasgow Iatefl Day One

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

It’s been an energizing here in Glasgow today, and I finally got to meet a few of my Twitter friends. (hope I’ll be meeting more tonight at the ELTCHAT party as well. So, I thought I’d share a few of … Continue reading →

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A Voice from the Desert

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

A Voice in the Desert It isn’t very popular these days to like coursebooks, and I like many of my colleagues, feel that following a course book can, at times, be extremely limiting. Often we tend to equate using the … Continue reading →

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