(translation key at bottom of post) Anyone who is any1 in the 'sphere of English Language Teaching or in the outer 'verse of Appli...

Well, it's all spinning off again in the Blogosphere and this first post since back from holiday was supposed to be all gooey and soft...

makes the most masters. This post is not an attempt to gazump Fogarty's brilliant blog, the Tao of Te(a)ching even if the quote is fr...

  Once you  see the horse  you were riding on is dead: get off. Dakota tribal wisdom. Previous posts you might find interesting...

For those of you who aren't sure what a DM is, the letters refer to the private messaging service on Twitter, the Direct Message For...

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They're really not getting it. They think coursebooks can be student-centered. Well, let me see if I can make it the slightest bit c...

Am I the only person out there in social-media-land who really, really does not want to be friended by companies on Facebook? I get random...

Ooooh, I'm musing on a Tuesday. That's, in my editorial calendar, not allowed ( did you know that I have one of those?  For a pr...

Facebook = a) close friends b) family and family of family c) teachers I know d) teachers I don't know e) people I went to school with...

I have these random thoughts... Sometimes they're troubling questions or fascinating revelations - sometimes I decide a few days later t...

They're not about the learners. So, er...mm.... why exactly are 2 billion people learning English? To make their lives "bet...

They're too expensive. Best, Karenne More reasons I don't like most textbooks? (scroll past this one ). p.s. I'm going to do a K...

Something really upset me a few days ago and I haven't been able to shake it off. I tweeted my congratulations to Sean Banville on his P...

Take a deep breath. Go on, blow out hard. I'm bringing a unicorn into the balloon factory. Although many of you will have read the follo...

One size fits all? The reason you can not make the perfect textbook is because our students aren't perfect: they do not fit into boxes o...

You have to be in ELT to get this... Whenever I go to a conference book stand or book fair I'm not looking for the almost exact replica ...

cultural incompatibility If we were to do a demographic poll of all textbooks written for the TEFL industry in the last 25 years, then we wo...

crowded pages. Best, Karenne 2nd reason

I still need to answer one of my reader's questions on what do with her problem class but as I'll be starting off my posting with ...