It's been around eleven years since I was last referred to as Queen of the EduELT blogosphere, when Kalinago English had a readership of around a million, but after setting off to study Educational Technology...
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I'm back....missed me?
Hope so, I missed writing this blog and talking to you all very much. I thought I'd kick things off by joining in Vicki Hollet's ELT Blog Carnival on Teaching and Learning...
Defining GLEE
Oxford University Press has just posted a short article I recently wrote for their blog about the benefits of using gamified language educational e-tivities in the ESL classroom. I thought I’d...
Mobile Assisted Language Learning - English TeachingApps (1)
This is the first in a series of posts on MALL (mobile assisted language learning) apps currently available via GooglePlay.
The infographic was created as one of the appendices for a recent assignment...
Why I don’t like Second Life (by Jacqueline Goulbourne)
Imagine a world where you can make a cartoon avatar of yourself and do whatever you like in an international community of English speakers.
Well, it already exists, in Taiwan where I have spent most...
English: time 4 a revamp?
Nothing so amazes me more than the fact, that despite so many other languages havie large governing bodies which analyze, stay on top of and make changes to their language in order to better fit...
Extrinsic "VS" or "AND" Intrinsic Motivation?
In the last couple of weeks prior to restarting classes, I've been watching a lot of television. The weather's not been particularly nice and I'm too poor to do anything else. That's the downside...
Sweet Words vs Monstrosities
More than a century ago, Henry Sweet wrote The Practical Study of Languages and through it, criticized the existing methods of the day, much as we still do now. The book's myth-busting...
Fixed Acquisition Order? = No Evidence
I'm busily packing up the stack of books I used for my MA assignment on Methods and Approaches while looking into authentic materials, yet before I take them on back to the library, I thought I'd share...
How did English become the Global Language?
One of the things I did today was comment on Scott Thornbury's blog post, O is for Ownership... and in my ramblings I talked about how sometimes ideas are out there, floating about in the greater...
Does Gender-Segregation in Classroom Lower Second Language Acquisition?
(Guest post by Brittany Lyons)
For decades, proponents of gender-segregation in classrooms have argued that separation of children by gender fosters a successful learning atmosphere. However, recent...
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