Motivating your students to go beyond the intermediate plateau. Every teacher recognises the concept of the intermediate plateau.

A language teacher tries to crank up his Spanish. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Google account.

Short Fiction for ELLs II. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Would love to hear from you.

A series of posts describing a semester of twitter, blogs, and student cellphones in developing writing skills. You can click on the rotating images above or the menu items top right and bottom left to get where you want to go.

The musings of a TEFL-er in an unplugged world. Whether or not you agree with the thinking behind this, it is common in most contexts.

For those doing postgraduate work in Applied Linguistics. DOING AN MA IN TESOL. New Books For Your Library. Four Funerals and a Wedding. M Long On Syllabus Design. What Makes an Excellent Teacher? Or Pleas.

Short Fiction for Language Learners. Learning to Call Something from Nothing. A name for all things. The Closing of the Ocean.

Am big, you wuss. I have spent this term trying to establish an approach to language learning that will allow students to feel that they have some control over their progress. Learning a language, it seems to me, is easiest when you know Sweet Fanny Adams.

Tuesday, 11 December 2012. It is probably obvious from the frequency of posting here that I am not a natural-born blogger. So it may come as a surprise that I have in fact blogged every week without fail since mid-September - just not here. At the beginning of this year I cautiously started an online course. These are all strictly personal, however.