Do You Speak English? is a sketch from the BBC television comedy series, Big Train. It plays upon Quintin Crisp’s aphorism, “I don’t hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.”
Continue ReadingAcronyms (TEFAL)
The following are a list of TEFAL acronyms. Further acronyms will be added when we can think of them. CELTA – Can Easily Lose Teaching Ability CELTA – Creepy English Losers Teaching Abroad DELTA – Dumb Educators Lack Teaching Ability DELTA – Dumb English Language Teachers Abroad DoS – Doddery […]
Continue ReadingYou know you’re a TEFL teacher when… (TEFAL)
You know you’re a TEFL teacher when… …you watch Eastenders and want to correct their pronunciation and grammar. …you think it’s perfectly fine to say close the light. …you meet the parents and understand immediately why the child is the way it is. …you want to correct the apostrophes outside […]
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WordWeb is an extremely useful piece of freeware dictionary and thesaurus software. It installs on your Windows PC or as an Android App (however, it’s not available for Macs) and runs in the background. Then, each time you want the definition or the spelling of a word, a simple hotkey […]
Continue ReadingWhy MOOCs Fail
A recent article in the New York Times has highlighted a number of disturbing statistics that shake the current craze for those free online educational courses known as MOOCs. Basically put, an appalling number of students are dropping out. MOOCs are being abandoned in droves. But why is this happening […]
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