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Fun and Free World Language Learning
Traci Andrighetti suggests five fun ways to improve language skills without spending a centavo
As recently as the early 1990’s, those who wanted to learn a foreign language had three basic means of doing so:...
Exploring Learner Language
Jason Martel on how a new manual enables educators to better understand students’ processes of language learning
Much of a world language teacher’s time is invested in thinking about how new languages are effectively and...
My Home es su Casa
Francisco Ramos turns the table on the argument against second language learners using their mother tongue at home
Fifteen years ago, Stephen Krashen (1996) published Under Attack: The Case Against Bilingual Education, a book in...
Making Every Word Count
Warren Merkel suggests overcoming student reluctance to composition writing by asking for just 55 words
As an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher and teacher trainer of public school English teachers, I often ask...
The Web is Your Oyster
Toni Theisen unlocks the treasure chest of free web-based tools for the ingenious language educator
We all know that there are some incredibly useful teaching tools available online but few of us have the time...
November 2011
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United Indignation
It is about 75 years since the likes of Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell risked everything to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Over two thousand Americans joined volunteers from...
August 2011 Editorial: Joining the Digital Dots
Traditionally every August, we publish our annual focus on technology, hoping that many readers will have a little extra time over the summer to assess the latest developments and work out where they can...
September 2011 Editorial: Measures for Measures
When the consequences of test failure are school closures or firings, and schools are denied the tools to give them a chance of success, it is hardly surprising to discover widespread abuse of the...
October 2011 Editorial: Real World Education
The decade since the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001 has been dominated by the continuing “war on terror” and, more recently, persistent, economic recession. There may be a relationship between ...
Last Writes
Richard Lederer on the Attraction of Opposites
What do you make of the fact that we can talk about certain things and ideas only when they are absent? Once they appear, our blessed English language...
