A divisive distinction
Anybody who spends any amount of time communicating professionally with ELT colleagues in person or online cannot help but be...
Charlie Taylor
How to win friends and educate people
Does the popularity contest that characterises many people’s high school experience end when we become teachers? Perhaps not. Research has...
Attitude problems (and opportunities)
Four years ago I came across a sentence in an almost 50-year-old article by Sandra J. Savignon: ‘Attitude is the...
Reflections on Duolingo
Duolingo claims to be the ‘world’s best way to learn a language’. Whether or not that is true, language-learning apps...
Humour in the language classroom
One student sits facing the class. He has to guess the word ‘zebra’, which is written on the board behind...
Developing professionally without breaking the bank – Charlie Taylor
MET interviews Charlie Taylor whose article 'Developing professionally without breaking the bank' features in the September/October 2022 (Volume 31, Issue...
Developing professionally without breaking the bank
Stephen Krashen (2021) recently asked why educators do not pay attention to research, and – spoiler alert – he does...
If and when to teach grammar
Few issues in the field of second language acquisition are as hotly contested as the teaching of grammar. Debates rage...
Fostering sociocultural competence
‘Knock, knock….’If you just responded with a mental ‘who’s there?’ you have demonstrated an ability known as sociocultural competence—an understanding...
Someone else’s shoes
Research shows that language students believe there are different benefits to having a native-speaking teacher or a non-native-speaking teacher, with...