Expert English Pronunciation, Accent Reduction & Fluency
WIKIPEDIA: believe…support…learn…nurture…contribute! So…how often do you check something on Wikipedia? Can you even imagine your life without information sources such as this? Wikipedia has been instrumental in changing the nature of the internet, from a home-shopping, blind-dating random network to Read More …
by Sandra Haywood, University of Nottingham It’s “cloze” in American English, and “gap” in British English, but whatever you like to call it, here’s a free site you can use to quickly create a listening/reading activity requiring students to fill Read More …
“The role of the teacher becomes that of negotiations coach, facilitator, reference person, and provider of feedback and the classroom becomes a workshop in communication and language skills and cross-cultural awareness development.” Drew Rodgers Read More …
“Know yourself in order to know other people, comparing your heart with theirs” — a Chinese proverb which sums up the author’s approach to becoming a great presenter. Read More …
Common phrases used in international meetings, organized by language function, e.g. Expressing Opinions, Stating Your Argument, Being Persuasive. British author. Read More …
If you’ve ever lived in another country or with another culture, you quickly realize that politeness rules are not the same. Read More …
That’s the title of a little book published by Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. Authors Paul Emmerson and Nick Hamilton have assembled a nice collection of warm-up/cool-down activities, across a range of skill levels, from elementary to quite advanced. The Read More …
The International Localization Blog offers this chart matching cultural response to colors, and suggests implications for color choices in designing and adapting materials for use by various cultures. Read More …
Advanced English learners still struggle with endemic pronunciation problems. Here’s a strategy that helps! Read More …
How L1 Rhetoric Influences Chinese ESL/EFL Writing in English Two events converged to bring this paper to my attention. I recently witnessed a Chinese friend’s struggles writing his TEFL Master’s project. It was arduous and exhausting, thinking in Mandarin and Read More …