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Last spring I came across a tweet promoting a series of webinars by prominent researchers for the MA/PhD in applied linguistics at Mary Immaculate College….

The assumption that being a native speaker of English makes you better able to teach it is becoming increasingly untenable. While this shift in attitude…

In my recent TESOL Spain talk I discussed teachers’ relationship to technology, our sense of identity and Marshall McLuhan’s conception of the media as an…

This tutorial shows how to use Google Docs and Grammarly to identify mistakes in your writing so that you can improve it dramatically. If you…

Find out how to use high-quality images and texts from Instagram to create challenging and engaging online jigsaw reading tasks for group or pair work….

In his recent webinar on learning vocabulary Paul Nation pointed out that we can harness our students’ fear of losing face for greater uptake and…

Before attending Paul Nation’s recent webinar entitled “What matters in vocabulary learning?” I had only a passing acquaintance with his work. I knew that he…

By uploading recordings of pair or group conversations from Zoom we can easily expand the range of speaking tasks we set for our students in…