Monthly Archives: April 2021

1. This month’s edition of Humanising Language Teaching (HLT) from Pilgrims – no country focus this time round that I can detect but the usual rich and varied mixture of topics nonetheless! https://www.hltmag.co.uk/apr21/ 2. Two considered pieces from The Conversation … Continue reading →

Lots of webinars today! 1.  On Monday, 19th April, at 14:00 UK time, Assessing teenagers online from OUP with Sarah Rogerson and Paul Davies https://www.facebook.com/oupeltglobal/ PDF of the ‘focus paper’ on the topic below. (Free to download, along with lots … Continue reading →

1. Chris Sowton is giving a webinar for TeachingEnglish at 12:00 UK time tomorrow, 15th April, on Teaching in Challenging Circumstances https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/10-key-strategies-teaching-challenging-circumstances which is also the title of the book that Chris published recently with Cambridge University Press. Here’s more … Continue reading →

1. Three free Modern English Teacher articles here https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/ Scroll down the page a little: Dave Dodgson on Teacher Professional Development – keeping your own motivation going, Fiona Dunlop on Raising your profile and Jeffrey Dawala Wilang on A positive … Continue reading →

1. As I’m sure most of you worked out, there was no message on Friday because Prince Philip died that morning, at the end of a very long and interesting life. Here’s The Guardian‘s long and interesting obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/prince-philip-the-duke-of-edinburgh-obituary “Things … Continue reading →

1. This recent piece of research by Strathclyde University into what they call composite classes – classes made up of children from more than one year group, as is still reasonably common in a number of countries round the world … Continue reading →

1. Oxford University Press (OUP) are currently running a ‘feature’ on learner agency https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en&mode=hub which I don’t think is quite the same thing as learner autonomy. PDF of their Learner Agency: Maximizing Learner Potential position paper attached below, in case … Continue reading →

1. First today, another excellent blog post from Alexandra Mihai, this one on Problem Based Learning https://educationalist.substack.com/p/problem-based-learning-pbl-let-students with the usual high-quality reading list at the end of the post. 2. Here’s this year’s longlist for the International Booker Prize, with … Continue reading →

1. Nice blog post from Claire Dembry of Cambridge English on using ‘Saylists’ in class here https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2021/03/29/saylists-elt-classroom/ Saylist playlists are an Apple thing and they focus on songs which emphasise a single sound for practice purposes; here’s the <ch> one … Continue reading →