If you’re a non-native speaker of English and you’ve recently embarked on a teaching career, chances are that you might be making one or two classroom language mistakes you’re not even remotely aware of. After all, as an advanced student, you were probably never corrected in class if you said something like “open your books [...]
classroom language: 10 things you might be saying wrong
Posted on May 8, 2013 Written by 21 Comments
70 useful sentences for academic writing
Posted on April 17, 2013 Written by 39 Comments
Back in the late 90s, in the process of reading for my MA dissertation, I put together a collection of hundreds of sentence stems that I felt could help me with my academic writing later on. And they did. Immensely. After the course was over, I stacked my sentences away, but kept wondering if I [...]
7 reasons to learn a foreign language
Posted on October 26, 2012 Written by 10 Comments
It’s two in the morning. I’m sitting in my home office, staring at the infographic and trying to pull my thoughts together. From time to time, my eyes wander around the room, as I wait for some sort of magic inspiration to hit me. But what hits me, instead, is the oddly-timed realization that virtually [...]
5 tips to help you learn better and faster
Posted on May 11, 2012 Written by 13 Comments
What does learning English mean to you? Choose the picture that you think best illustrates the process. If you chose picture 1, you probably think learning English means understanding and remembering words, phrases, sounds and rules. You like clear explanations, challenging grammar exercises and word lists. If you chose picture 2, you probably think learning [...]
