ELT Rants, Reviews, and Reflections

…and other things I'm not so sure about
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  • Attempts at fiction
    • Fiction for ELLs “I didn’t ask for this”
    • An attempt at ELL Fiction: Humidity
    • I am just me. [semi-fiction for training course participants]
    • They gave ME a fork [short story]
    • Guys like him [fiction for students]
  • Other Written Work
    • Better use of Dialogues
    • Building Positive Group Dynamics
    • “Effective Activity Delivery”
    • Improving Your Teaching Practice through Reflective Journal Writing
    • Large Class Management
    • Reflections on Teaching, Learning, and Lesson Planning
    • Reducing Teacher Talking Time
    • Team Teaching: How to make it work
    • Using online corpus tools to check intuitions
    • Building a Better Widget (Coursebook Review of “Widgets”)
    • Language, gender, power, and performance on the fantasy lines
    • Differences in Language and Gender?
    • Ways of Reflecting through (not only) Observation Feedback [Workshop Document]
    • A TESOL curriculum approach for an English for specific purposes course
    • Reviews of Discussion Books
  • Workshop Materials
    • Who is afraid of a little TTT? [Workshop materials]
    • Next Step(s) in Professional Development [Workshop Materials]
    • Classroom Management Party [Workshop Materials]
    • Teacher Beliefs Questionnaire
  • Classroom Material
    • Conflicting Proverbs [Classroom Material]
    • Korean Culture Tips [Classroom material]
    • Authentic* material that may or may not be useful for class
    • Unique aspects of Korea (?)
    • Essential movie quotes for the advanced EFL learner
  • Random
    • What is neguices?
    • jargon guru
    • Advice for KOTESOL International Conference
    • Totally official, not subjective, or silly at all best hashtagger in ELT title
    • Tips (from students) for visitors to Korea
    • Life is like a box of chocolates…
    • Why I couldn’t teach class today
  • Teach like a Freak: The Collection
  • Interviews on ELT RRR

Monthly Archives: September, 2017

  • (Crowdsourced) Tips for Learning English September 28, 2017
  • It finally happened September 13, 2017
  • A Post on World Suicide Prevention Day September 10, 2017
  • But what if we’re wrong? September 10, 2017
  • Review of Classroom Community Builders: Activities for the First Day & Beyond September 6, 2017
  • 12 Reasons Why September 3, 2017

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