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Language Apps: do they work?

An interview with Zach Sporn, co-author of the study “The effectiveness of app-based language learning for developing receptive linguistic…

Sep 14, 2020

Language Apps: do they work?

Sep 14, 2020

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Why it’s ok to take a break from breakout rooms & monitoring

How do you like to monitor you students when they are doing an activity? Peering over the shoulder? Crouching in front of them? At the…

May 5, 2020

Why it’s ok to take a break from breakout rooms & monitoring

May 5, 2020

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Coping with bored students — and teachers — during lockdown (Part 2 — The Materials)

Here, I’m going to share the materials that I’ve designed around my original idea for Masters of Boredom. There are notes on how to use…

Mar 23, 2020

Coping with bored students — and teachers — during lockdown (Part 2 — The Materials)

Mar 23, 2020

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Coping with bored students (and teachers!) during lockdown

At the moment, many teachers are experiencing what it’s like to teach a full timetable online for the first time in our lives. There are…

Mar 17, 2020

Coping with bored students (and teachers!) during lockdown

Mar 17, 2020

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Troublemakers (Part 3 — Ideas for the classroom)

In Part 1, I discussed my classroom troublemaker and set myself the task of finding out more about the topic. In Part 2, I looked at…

Sep 17, 2019

Troublemakers (Part 3 — Ideas for the classroom)

Sep 17, 2019

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Troublemakers (Part 2— Givers and Takers)

In the previous article, I discussed class troublemakers. I reflected on a teen student from the previous academic year who disrupted my…

Sep 11, 2019

Troublemakers (Part 2— Givers and Takers)

Sep 11, 2019

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Troublemakers (Part 1 — My bad apple)

At the start of the academic year, many teachers return from their time-off refreshed and reinvigorated. If they are lucky, any…

Sep 5, 2019

Troublemakers (Part 1 — My bad apple)

Sep 5, 2019

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LGBT representation in ELT

There is an idea that English language teachers working abroad tend to be open-minded liberals, who appreciate and embrace variety - the…

Apr 30, 2019

LGBT representation in ELT

Apr 30, 2019

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Go With The Flow (Part 3— The Dogme Experiments: My Best/Worst Teacher)

In the first article from this series, I defined Dogme and presented the idea that the approach could be put on a scale. In my second…

Mar 5, 2019

Go With The Flow (Part 3— The Dogme Experiments: My Best/Worst Teacher)

Mar 5, 2019

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Go With The Flow (Part 2 — The Dogme Experiments: The Beach Party)

In the previous article, I defined Dogme and presented the idea that the approach could be put on a scale. At one end, Dogme could be…

Feb 25, 2019

Go With The Flow (Part 2 — The Dogme Experiments: The Beach Party)

Feb 25, 2019

Scott Donald

Scott Donald

EFL teacher and CELTA trainer, always eager to learn, his main motivations are his love of teaching, training and stealing other people’s ideas.

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