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The Power of Stories
Nora Nagy
“Stories, great, flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest have died and the strongest have survived and th...
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TEN TIPS FOR TEACHING WRITING (…PLUS A FEW BONUS ONES…)
Nick Michelioudakis
Let us be honest about it: given a choice between doing a writing activity or having a tooth pulled out without anesthesia, most students would plump for the latter. Writing frequently features at the bottom of students’...
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Using multisensory activities to adapt your coursebook for learners with SpLDs.
Dr Anne Margaret Smith
In 2016, two articles were published here relating to the workshop we ran on ‘Adapting your coursebook for learners with SpLDs’. The first of these articles outlined the main ideas that came out of it, including page lay...
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Developing life skills through play
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Developing life skills through play
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Interview with Jeremy Harmer by Jack Scholes
JS: In your years of experience as a teacher, teacher educator and writer, how have your beliefs regarding teaching and learning changed? Has any paradigm shifted along the way?
JH: I think my belief (at the beginning) t...
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Healthy Little Eaters (www.healthylittleeaters.gr)
Spyridoula Kokkali
The beginning “Healthy Little Eaters” was set in motion in 2014 at “Spyridoula Kokkali” Foreign Language School in Acharavi, Corfu, as a project of healthy eating, compost-making and organic farming. It aimed at r...
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Holistic child acquirers vs. analytical adult learners
Leo Selivan
One of the most widely debated issues in applied linguistics is why adults rarely reach the same level of proficiency in a second language (L2) as those who embarked on their L2 learning journey in their childhood. The n...
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Learning Differences: Overcoming emotional learning blocks in students with learning and/or behavioral challenges.
Marialena Kalyva
I first met John when he was in 4th grade. His parents sought assistance when they realized that they could no longer manage him as John seemed to be “out of control”. He would often experience fits of rage and during th...
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Global Competence in ELT #3: Using video
Ben Goldstein
In this final post Eyes Open and Uncover author, Ben Goldstein, continues to explore how teachers can develop their teenage learners’ global competence through language learning.
We previously introduced the concept of g...