English for the 21st Century Skills - New Book! We are pleased and proud to announce that we have contributed chapters in the recently published volume on 'English for the 21st Century Skills' edited by Sophia Mavridi and Daniel Xeri. It's a great volume with expert contibutors from around the world, prefaced by Sugata Mitra and withContinue reading "August 2020 News bulletin"
P is for Politeness
The post which follows is an article which appeared in the IATEFL Business English Special Interest Group Newsletter in 2015
N is for New Information
Definition New information is information that is assumed by the speaker not to be known to or assumed by the addressee, or previously established in the discourse. Discussion New information typically is placed late in the sentence, and has a high amount of stress placed on the words representing it. Examples (English) In the following exchange, the stressed wordsContinue reading "N is for New Information"
C is for Coherence
Watch this much discussed video of a young beauty pageant contestant answering a question posed by the judges. Thinking Tasks 1. Is Miss South Carolina coherent or not? 2. Read this text and say if it is coherent. Try to answer the following questions: Where was published? Who authored it? What was the author’sContinue reading "C is for Coherence"
IATEFL 2015 | Marisa Constantinides: Evernote for teacher observation and teacher development | Workshop summary
A great summary of a presentation I did at IATEFL in 2015 - using new tools for teacher observation which also lead to self-observation and reflection. Here are my original presentation slides on Slidebean - I am afraid that on the day of my second presentation at IATEFL (I did this one twice, once forContinue reading "IATEFL 2015 | Marisa Constantinides: Evernote for teacher observation and teacher development | Workshop summary"