Coffee with ...
In conversation with ELT writers, teachers, and trainers.
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| All work and no play? Graham Stanley and Kyle Mawer talk about using authentic video games in the language classroom. Go to page |
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| Lifetime
strategies Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn talk about how it feels to win a lifteime achievement award and look back at the past and into the future. Go to page |
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| Lost
in translation Guy Cook talks to us about translation in teaching – an area which can cause some teachers much discomfort. Go to page |
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| Whodunit?
Wedunit! Marcos Benevides and Adam Gray talk about their recent trip to Buckingham Palace and their innovative new book – Whodunit. Go to page |
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| From
Innovations to Outcomes Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley talk about outcomes for lessons, their writing partnership and their attitudes to social networking. Go to page |
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| Searching
for the key Michael Berman, author of In a Faraway Land (O-Books) talks with Tessa Woodward. Go to page |
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| "Do
less input and more practice" Jim Scrivener talks about tea, teaching, adverbs, relative clauses and detective stories. Go to page |
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| What’s the word up? Mark Mckinnon and Almudena Saínz chat about dictionaries, slang, teaching and the latest words. Go to page |
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| Exploring the blogosphere Karenne Sylvester is a language teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer and blogger. Go to page |
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| Starting with a single step Jane Cadwallader talks about her writing work, teaching children, and the school she is helping to build in Africa. Go to page |
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| Pulling the plug on your
teaching We talk with Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury, two of the founders of Dogme ELT. Go to page |
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| Skimming, scanning and flim-flamming iT's caught up with Philip Kerr in Romania after he had just given a talk on reading in the ELT classroom. Go to page |
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| What's Different ... Desmond Nicholson, development manager for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, tells us about the updated Cambridge exams. Go to page |
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| More than a thousand words:
images and ELT Ben Goldstein has more than just a passing interest in pictures. He is the author of the new Cambridge resource book Working with Images. Go to page |
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| The play's the thing! Ken Wilson's ELT career has spanned more than 25 years, and in that time he has not only taught but also written songs, taught using drama, and written materials. Go to page |
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| English in Afghanistan Professor Yar Mohammad Bahrami Ahamdzai is the president of the English Teaching Association in Kabul. Go to page |
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| Are you experienced? Rose Senior is a language teaching expert based in Perth, Australia. She is the author of The Experience of Language Teaching. Go to page |
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| Digital Natives Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly are the authors of How to Teach with Technology and the people behind the Consultants-E, an online training consultancy. Go to page |
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| ELF - English as a Lingua
Franca Jennifer Jenkins is a lecturer in phonology and sociolinguistics at King's College London. She is one of the leading researchers into ELF. Go to page |
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| Learning English language
and culture - in 3D Stuart Rubinstein and Greta Grinfield's English cultural project won a British Council Innovations Award in 2006. Go to page |
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| All about grammar Michael Swan is a writer specialising in English language teaching and reference materials. We chatted with him about English grammar over a coffee and a tray of biscuits. Go to page |
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| Getting the best out of groups Tim Murphey is co-author with Zoltan Dornyei of Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom. In this interview he talks about group dynamics. Go to page |
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| Talking teacher knowledge Mary Spratt and Melanie Williams talk about the Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT), a new test for English language teachers. Go to page |
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| Making motivating online
materials We talk to the man behind the Onestopenglish Internet site, Web resources editor Bryan Fletcher. Go to page |
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| Surviving the difficult classroom How do you deal with a ‘difficult’ class? Luke Prodromou gives his views and answers on the subject. Go to page |
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| Computers in the classroom Vance Stevens, who has been involved in EFL and technology since the early days, talks about his experience with CALL. Go to page |
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