Aberdeen
Aberdeen is the third largest city in Scotland, with a population of 228,990. Situated between the River Dee and the River Don on the north-east coast, it is a Royal Burgh with a charter...
Aberdeen is the third largest city in Scotland, with a population of 228,990. Situated between the River Dee and the River Don on the north-east coast, it is a Royal Burgh with a charter...
A renowned British journalist, who spent the 1950s “on the road”, touring Britain as a member of a jazz group, observed that the further away from London he travelled, the more individuality and character...
The town of St Andrews, situated on the east coast of Scotland, in the “East Neuk” (Scots for “corner”) of the county of Fife, has a historical and cultural importance out of all proportion...
L1 vs. L2 in the classroom Should there be L1 in the English classroom? It’s an age-old debate. Deller (2003) believes that it is useful for students to use L1 in the classroom in...
When I worked in Macedonia, I was once approached by a man who asked where I was from. ‘Ah, Great Britain! We like very well your Monty Python and your Mr Bean!’ Although it...
In 2007, Carter stated that “literature has begun to assume a higher profile in contexts of second language acquisition” (p. 10). This assertion was made at the time CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)...
Language teachers often discuss the difficulty of measuring how well their students are doing. A typical comment goes something like, “When you’re testing in a history class (or biology, or law, etc.) it’s easy....
Testing and assessment are important in any classroom. In addition to the obvious goal of finding out if students have learned what is required for the end of term or year, assessment also gives...
Graphic novels are becoming more and more prominent in ELT, either as stand-alone illustrated readers or as stories integrated into general coursebooks, such as in Interactive Student’s Book 1-4 (Cambridge University Press). A graphic...
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” – Aristotle For many teachers the extension of language learning outside the classroom can really benefit their...