Express Publishing ELT

Ask your class what they’d like to read about next lesson, and they’re highly unlikely to mention content from their coursebook. Yesterday’s catastrophe, today’s celebrity gossip or tomorrow’s technology stand a far better chance of appearing on the classroom wish list.

Thankfully, if you have a connection to the internet and Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer (available for free from www.openoffice.org), then you can create exciting classroom materials based on any topical issue of your choice in a matter of minutes.     read more >>

Chomsky on language

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“Thinking outside the box” has been voted Britain’s most despised business jargon by researchers in a new poll. Nearly half of the Britons (49 per cent) surveyed by YouGov believe that the use of such terms is on the increase as employees seek to impress their bosses.     read more >>

Here’s an article published in the Guardian Weekly. It’s not about language learning, but made me think of how much we focus on our students “getting it right”. Perhaps we over-emphasise correctness and testing when evidence shows that good learners are not afraid to make mistakes – they take risks and creatively use language for their own purposes.     read more >>