During the war in the Balkans (1992-1995), much was made of the spelling and pronunciation of place names in Serbia and so on. This satirical news item was popular at the time. Before an emergency joint session of Congress yesterday, President Clinton announced US plans to deploy over 75,000 vowels […]
Continue ReadingThis Will Revolutionize Teaching
For years they’ve been telling us that new technology will revolutionize teaching. First it was film. Then radio. Then TV. Then video. Then computers. Then MOOCs… And they were wrong. Wrong every time. Wrong all the time. In this insightful video from Derek Muller he explains that the reason why […]
Continue ReadingTextSTAT (CALL Software)
TextSTAT is a simple text analysis program. The first step is to make a corpus. This can be done by adding files from a PC in HTML, TXT and WORD format, etc. In addition, there is also the ability to add in web pages using a spider to collect them […]
Continue ReadingTelevision from Back Home for TEFL Teachers Abroad
Sometimes living in a foreign country can be lonely but one way to keep in touch with home and get a little light relief is to watch On Demand Television (or Catch Up Television) on your computer. It’s the perfect way to keep up with current affairs back home as […]
Continue ReadingTEFL Jokes (TEFAL)
Although there are jokes we can use in the class to drive home a language point and make the lesson more engaging, these are jokes about teachers and students in general and especially about the English language and the way we use it. Some of them are terrible and will […]
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