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CLT again

Establishing a ‘communicative English language teaching environment’

In Blogs Archived: Matt Smith - 1st October 2008

I would say that the practice that most improved any of my classes, by far and away was the practice of walking around the class (particularly in writing classes) and making sure that students were doing the activities, and furthermore knew what they were going to get from them

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The burden of being fun

Why many ESL environments are so nightmarish

In Blogs Archived: Matt Smith - 1st October 2007

At its very worst, teaching is the kind of job you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. When the students couldn’t care less about what you have to say, and are determined to just make fun of you, the ESL classroom can literally become a living hell.

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The greatest myth

How communicative language teaching fails

In Blogs: Steve Schertzer - 1st August 2006

These truths are not wild, philosophical, esoteric ramblings. How we choose to teach English as a second or foreign language is a perfect example of how our methods of teaching is failing the very same people it was meant to help.

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We don’t learn like that!

Arrogance at the top and the politics of language schools

In Blogs: Steve Schertzer - 1st July 2006

I realize that many language schools have a huge problem listening to their teachers, especially the native English teachers. It's as if they want us to shut up and tow the party line; don't rock the boat; don't try to fix things. How is anything suppose to change for the better in an atmosphere like that? It's not enough for many language schools to tell us what to teach; they also feel they need to tell us what to think. It's their way or the highway.

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The madness to the methods

The often crazy world of teaching in Korea

In Blogs Archived: Ken May - 1st August 2005

Despite being sequestered on the furthest border of the Kumi frontier, nearly fifteen miles away from the closest foreign teacher, I am still surrounded by hagwon mania. These private schools are everywhere. Due to all this severe competition, schools habitually search for new angles to draw in students. At times the teaching methods advocated are only passing fads and cheap gimmicks.

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