ELT articles can be found on our website under ARTICLES. They will gradually be transferred here.
In posting them in a batch, I’m very aware that certain points and themes recur again and again. These articles were written over fifteen years, for different publications, and were never meant to be read as a continuous whole. So I repeat myself on accents, stress, names in textbooks, pronunciation, beginner syllabuses, how I started teaching and so on.
Some bits are out of date. More often, afterthoughts have been added in 2010 as I check each article, because other points come to mind. They’re often slightly longer than the originals anyway, because they were edited to fit a page or column in a magazine. It’s not that I’m rejecting the editing so much as that the file I have on computer is the original one I submitted.
Reading them all together, I feel like the central character in Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel, Aunt Julia & The Scriptwriter. He was attempting to write several different daily radio soap opera simultaneously, and kept letting the themes that obsessed him appear again and again across the storylines. My apologies whenever I do the same.
The regular THINK TANK series at ELT News in Japan has run monthly discussion group articles, including contributions by me, Marc Helgesen, Chuck Sandy, Curtis Kelly, Chris Hunt and guests.
Other articles will be added here, and gradually articles will migrate from the website to this blog.
This page has the following sub pages.
- Preparing Reading Schemes
- Reading Fast
- Why copyright?
- The RP Club
- Course Books
- What’s In A Name?
- Theme Park English
- Forbidden Words
- MacDonaldization & UnCola
- Thatcherite
- Apostrophes
- Have got
- Fixing A Hole
- British and American English 1
- British and American English 2
- TESOL-Arabia 2010
- Colour My World
- Corpus and textbook
- Stressed endings
- MATSDA Interview 2007
- Comparison
- I don’t like Mondays
- How NOT to write …
- Poems in ELT Classes
- Time for A Song
- Robert O’Neill
- The Invisible Person
- Mr Brown or Gordon?
- Possessive pronouns
- Audio Books
- Changing the focus of Teacher Training
- Personality teaching?
- What makes a good teacher?
- Teacher Independence
- ZZZ … Travelogues
- Influential ELT Books
- Grading
- Empowering (?) students
- Peer observation
- Student Talking Time
- Listening and mobiles
- New Class? First lesson
- Increasing language output
- Politics, religion and ELT
- Status of ELT Teaching
- Proverbs and clichés
- Correcting students
- Gender and language teaching
- Empowering and Motivating
- Authentic? Or memorable?
- Teaching trivia?
- How Just William Got Me Into Grammar School
- Language viruses: politics
- The Dead Hand of the CEF
- Language Learning in Britain Past
- A coursebook writer responds …
- The Wrong Trousers interview
- ELT News Japan interview
- Writing in Collaboration
- The End of Term …
- Doesn’t anyone teach intonation anymore?
- The Inspection …
- If your face fits … continuous assessment
- Eng. Lit. in Britain Past
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