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Back in the groove again

Stepping back into a Thai training room after three years away

In Ajarn Street: Articles - 10th July 2010

A two-day seminar on the topic of ‘Executive E-mail Writing' for fifteen participants at one of the world's largest auditing companies. That's what I had been asked to deliver. Despite having plenty of experience, it was still a daunting challenge given the fact I hadn't walked into a training room to conduct a workshop or seminar in almost three years. It was time to put my trainer hat on and get back into the groove.

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Some solutions to the challenges of teaching in Thailand

Some ideas on how to make life easier for yourself

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 2nd November 2009

Don’t take complaints or awkward suggestions to your local head. Go to them with easy to understand positive solutions instead. And don’t push your case or demand an immediate response.

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Phonics for teenagers and adults

Why should students feel intimidated?

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 6th August 2009

Phonics for absolute and false beginners? Yup, and even up to intermediate level too. And beyond if your students benefit from it.

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EFL teaching in Thailand

What’s the best and the worst class you’ve ever taught?

In Blogs: Tom Tuohy - 1st July 2009

Having been teaching for more than twelve years in places like Japan, the UK, West Africa, Thailand and the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, I guess you could say that I would have inevitably had a few moments when I was far from in control.

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Being a business English teacher

Finding a teaching job in the corporate environment

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 21st May 2009

Why isn’t there more demand for business English courses in Thailand? Well, most of the available textbooks are as dull as dishwater and are far too generic. If they were designed for international markets then most of the countries in Southeast Asia didn’t appear on the list.

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The value of learning groups

How to help students learn better

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 11th February 2009

Think back to when you were a kid or a teen and what your least favourite school subject was. It wasn’t that it was boring because if it had of been then other students wouldn’t have liked it or excelled at it. It was because it wasn’t particularly accessible to you as a learner.

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Yes, it’s official

Thais can be just as good at English as Khmers, Vietnamese and Laotians but

In Blogs: Geoff Richards - 1st February 2009

English is a compulsory subject in Thailand. But class sizes are normally large. This leaves little or no room for one-to-one dialogues.

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Teaching at my university

What does holding down a university job entail?

In Blogs Archived: Matt Smith - 3rd January 2009

if you want to teach university classes like mine, in particularly regard to Thai classes, if they are school leavers they’re really as good a bunch of starters as you could ever hope to get. If you try and teach them in a systematic way, you will encounter difficulties – difficulties that might, at first, be inclined to plunge you into the deepest depths of despair.

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Doing it yourself

What it takes to start your very own language school

In Blogs Archived: Jason Alavi - 1st January 2009

For the first two years we actually lived in our school. This was tiring and annoying, but saved us a lot of money, obviously. Our monthly mortgage was only 6,600 baht, for which we got a house AND a school! The drawbacks to this sort of arrangement are that we had to pull out our bedrolls after the school was closed down

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