Features of EAP Courses
Language skills
As described in previous articles, the skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are taught and developed throughout EAP courses. These courses prepare students for the very specific purpose of university study and life at an English-speaking context through specific environments and...
The aim of this article is to examine storytelling as an educational tool, to delve into its powers, the skills it requires and the activities it can lend itself to. The article consists of 4 parts and in this first part we will be looking very briefly at the history of storytelling, the reason why stories are powerful, how story telling relates to...
By Vassilakou Evangelia
Introduction/The big questions
Typically, there have been two main approaches to teacher evaluation, namely the practice-based assessment referring to classroom observations by experienced peer teachers and the teacher value-added assessment based on students’ test scores. Students’ evaluation of teachers also occurs...
Undoubtedly, change is inevitable in today’s life. Since development means change and growth, can outside change become the motive to personal development? Defining the term teacher development, it is “the process whereby teachers’ professionality and/or professionalism may be considered to be enhanced (Evans, 2010, p. 131) and professionality in turn...
When Forest Gump (Tom Hanks) sits on the bench offering chocolates to the listeners of his life story while this story is unfolded before viewers’ eyes, Forest breaks the so-called fourth wall convention.
By Dimitris Maroulis, AdvDipEd – MEd – EdDoctorate
Fourth wall is a convention that best describes the relationship between the stage action...
Supposing you hold the currently released ELT News issue, the present feature section must be of fervent interest to the readership.
Reasons for Prioritizing Lifelong Education and Skills Development
Through educating oneself, the ESL/EFL teacher accomplishes an influential multi- faceted effect:
They essentially nurture their professional...
Oral exams can be a stressful part of the certification process. With this in mind, we are here to answer some of the following questions: how do LanguageCert markers assess the B2-level candidates’ oral performance and what information can we share with our students when preparing for their Spoken Exam?
By Paul Bouniol, LanguageCert Academic...
Are you considering working with adults? Have you been approached by adults who would like to brush up their English or restart from where they’d stopped some years ago? In these cases you may not know exactly what they need and/or you maybe unsure of where to start with them.
By Maroussa Pavli
Those learners sometimes say ‘‘I’d like to start my...
Can there be a comeback?
Psychologists Jeffrey Bowers, Sven L. Mattys, and Suzanne Gage from the University of Bristol performed an interesting survey a few years ago. They selected English native speakers who had learned some difficult foreign languages such as Hindi or Zulu.
By Emmanuel Bouhalakis, EFL Tutor
Their findings, which appeared in an...
More and more adults are signing up for English classes either to receive a certificate, refresh their long-forgotten skills or just be able to use English for professional or personal reasons. While teachers might think adults will be ‘easier’ lessons because they are mature, more disciplined and know what they want, it sometimes doesn’t work out that...
