Video is so ubiquitous in modern life that we sometimes take students’ comprehension for granted and fail to explore it to the fullest in class. This might happen because we’re not always clear about our goals. What exactly are we trying to achieve? Is it primarily for listening comprehension or something else? There’s nothing wrong, … Read more
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 of something I’d read about but couldn’t fully grasp. Not until then, anyway.
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 EFL / ESL textbooks have more similarities than differences, which means that it’s becoming increasingly harder to choose title A over title B. Here’s a summary of what I’ve found so far: