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

Past, present and future books, sketches and related artwork. they pull me back in! April 23, 2017. Theme images by Radius Images.

Dedicated to looking at language and language teaching from an evidence-based viewpoint. Monday, 29 January 2018. When this blog first started I saw it as being something like a Private Eye. Kind of blog for ELT. I initial wrote posts on things like London MET losing its highly trusted sponsor status. Or criticisms of the British Council.

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.

Not all who wander are lost .

How could I have missed this? Then I realised how much learning I am missing out on a daily basis. Magazine including my past two columns on technology in education. Tips on using technology in the classroom. Want to see how Windows 8 apps can support Blooms Taxonomy in the classroom? Then look no further.

A blog mostly about language teaching. Make sure you read the post. That inspired it all and the many excellent responses Joanna has linked to below. Special thanks go to Joanna for not giving up on my contribution, and Hana Tichá. For tagging me in her post.

A blog about getting established as an EFL teacher. More reflections on teaching English. But it is the role of English in keeping social structures intact that troubles me the most. The contrast between middle class, English speaking students and the rest of the population is stark. They, of course, usually get the best education that private wealth can buy, secure the best jobs, make more money and have a better chance of becoming powerful members of society. I can tell myself that my ro.