TESOL
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All About TESOL Team Teaching
Why do it? And does it even work? It is my belief that if you asked the average person to visualize a classroom, they would imagine a square room with about 30 students and 1 teacher. This has been the popular model throughout most of recorded time. Born from necessity instead of any kind of…
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Benign Frankenstein
English can be a powerful instrument for community building, but is it hurting as much as it’s helping? The 2014 TESOL International Convention ended a month and a day ago. I didn’t go, but the organization conveniently live-streams the presentations of the keynote speakers. This year Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, of Thai political notoriety, gave the…
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Fish & Dips
A Compare and Contrast of Two EFL Programs from Opposite Sides of the Pacific In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And in the land of non-English speakers, the English speaker is a teacher. This simple maxim is what makes it so easy for native English speakers, ink still wet on…
Alex Barrett 