Tag «syllabus design»

The hazy line between grammar & lexis (1)

This post is a short anecdotal account of two lessons I taught in 2002. Why on earth, you must be wondering, would I have any sort of recollection of two lessons I taught nearly ten years ago. It so happens that those two lessons were very significant because they helped me to finally make sense …

ESL textbooks – the current orthodoxy

What do modern EFL/ESL textbooks look like? This is a post I wrote before I became a full time author, back in 2011. Over the past few months I’ve analyzed dozens of EFL / ESL textbooks (I’m using the terms interchangeably) put out by the mainstream publishing houses. For better and for worse, all these …