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Journal Writing: A Study of Change
(research by Bahar Ulusoğlu-Darn) Abstract There is a strong prejudice against writing lessons among Turkish…
Express Teaching
(with Gülfem Aslan) AbstractMany teachers working in proficiency orientated institutions, whether they work in national,…
Thinking Outside The Teacher’s Box
IntroductionThe term ‘thinking outside the box’ is generally associated with innovation and problem solving in…
The Provision of Teacher Development in an Expanding University
A Case Study from Turkey ContextThere is an ever-growing body of literature concerning the need…
Teacher Isolation
‘He’s a real nowhere mansitting in his nowhere landmaking all his nowhere plans for nobodydoesn’t…
What’s Happening in Your Department?
Whether you are a head of department, a senior teacher, or in your first year…
Who Are You? A Mingle Activity for Trainer Trainers
Like many who are involved in training trainers, I also train and help to develop…
Beyond Training: Teaching
For my sins, I teach, teach teachers and teach teachers who teach teachers. I do…
CLIL: Implementing a CLIL Approach – A Change of Emphasis
BackgroundStudents at English-medium institutions require ongoing language support, and it makes sense for this support…
CLIL: News from Turkey
It is well over a year since the first CLIL materials from Turkey were posted…
CLIL: Exploiting an Interactive Text
In an earlier project, we looked at the relationship between content and language through a…
CLIL: A Project – A Brief Look At The Miniskirt
(with Rob Ledbury) This is a description of one part of a project designed to…
CLIL: A Lesson
In previous methodology articles I have outlined the theory behind Content and Language Integrated Learning…
CLIL: A Lesson Framework
In the first of these articles, Content and Language Integrated Learning, I gave an introduction…
CLIL: Potential and Practice
IntroductionContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an umbrella term covering dual-focus contexts in which…
CLIL: A Way Forward for Turkey
If you look at the FACT (Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching) website (www.factworld.info), you…
CLIL: CLIL on the Web
This is a list of current Web references. All these links have been checked and…
CLIL: A European Overview
IntroductionContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become a focus of attention in recent years,…
CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the umbrella term describing both learning another…
Teaching Face to Face
(with Özgür Köseoğlu & Laura Cruse) Introduction – The good teacherWhen questioned, the majority of…
Metaphorically Speaking
(with Ian White) IntroductionThere is one single reason why metaphor is important to the English…
Grammatical Blues
Something funny happened just the other dayI couldn’t find the right words to sayThe only…
Fishing For Answers
Wake up, get out of bed, drag a comb across my head… 7.30am. I take…
Teaching English with an American Accent
From where I stand, which is on a balcony at the Izmir University of Economics,…
Graphic Organisers
Visual representations of information are by no means an innovation in education. The use of…
Eliciting
(with Funda Çetin) DefinitionsEliciting (elicitation) is term which describes a range of techniques which enable…
Conducting Feedback on Exercises and Tasks
(with Nick Baguley) The term feedback can apply to a number of classroom situations and…
Student Feedback on Tasks and Activities
IntroductionHere is a fairly typical classroom exchange: Teacher: and what’s the answer to number…
A Song – More Than Just a Gap-Fill
(with Funda Çetin) Music, music, music Music is very much part of our lives. We…
The Natural Way
There are many anecdotes and jokes about the confusion caused by the difference between the…
Some Implications of the Lexical Approach
The Lexical Approach is with us. It is not something which has arrived suddenly overnight,…
Speaking Correction Techniques
(with Simon Mumford) Methodology Challenge Prizewinner I want to know. What’s the best way to…
Asking Questions
(with Funda Çetin) Asking questions is a natural feature of communication, but also one of…
Homework
Homework seems to be an accepted part of teachers� and students� routines, but there is…
Teacher Talking Time
IntroductionThe development of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) brought with it a methodology which emphasised communication…
Rhythm
Rhythm is both a feature of and product of the phonological structure of English. The…
Monitoring
Monitoring is a classroom management technique loosely defined as listening to the learners for their…
Analysing Language
In a previous article, I emphasised the importance of checking understanding in the process of…
Checking Understanding
(with Ian White) In a standard language focus lesson following a PPP (present, practice, produce)…
Emotional Intelligence and ELT
The theory of Emotional Intelligence and its measurement, the Emotional Quotient (EQ) were developed in…
Duygusal Zeka
Son yıllarda, İngiliz Dili Öğretimi, öğrencileri daha iyi anlamak ve ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak için psikoloji ve…
Emotional Intelligence
In recent years, ELT has been borrowing and adapting from a variety of models and…
Some Feedback on NLP
The question: Maria Ordoñez, MexicoI’m an English teacher and language Program Director that is always…
Neuro Linguistic Programming in ELT
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has been around in language teaching longer than we may realise.…
An Awareness-raising Workshop
This is an outline of a workshop designed to give teachers an insight into the…
Integrating Nonverbal Communication into Classroom Activities
Integrating Nonverbal Communication into Classroom Activities (with Simon Mumford) Nonverbal communication (body language, paralinguistics) covers…
A Nonverbal Communication Lesson
A Nonverbal Communication Lesson (with Dilek Eryılmaz) Nonverbal communication has been a focus of attention…
Aspects of Nonverbal Communication
VC: Aspects of Nonverbal Communication Nonverbal communication has received much attention in the areas of…
The Importance of Eye Contact in the Classroom
The Importance of Eye Contact in the Classroom (with Rob Ledbury and Ian White) Teachers…
Nonverbal Communication
NVC: Nonverbal Communication (with Dilek Eryılmaz) Non-verbal communication (body language, paralinguistics) has been a focus…




























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