Category: ELT

(with Özgür Köseoğlu & Laura Cruse) Introduction - The good teacherWhen questioned, the majority of teachers will tell you that such a thing as the ‘teaching personality’ or the ‘born teacher’ exists. Most will be unable to define the terms,...

(with Ian White) IntroductionThere is one single reason why metaphor is important to the English language and language teaching. It is impossible to communicate naturally and effectively without employing this device. Metaphors are an essential part of our everyday language,...

Something funny happened just the other dayI couldn’t find the right words to sayThe only words coming out of my mouth werePrepositions, nouns and adjectives Not a verb, not a pronoun or infinitiveNo adverb, conjunction or definitiveCouldn’t make a sentence...

Wake up, get out of bed, drag a comb across my head… 7.30am. I take the lift down to the ground floor of my apartment block - which was designed as a hotel, hence the atrium and lobby - turn...

From where I stand, which is on a balcony at the Izmir University of Economics, overlooking Izmir bay on the Aegean coast of Turkey, things are not looking too good for British ELT. When I came to Turkey, 20 years...