You walk into your classroom and announce a pop quiz on last night’s homework.
Your students jump up from their desks and cheer.
Yeah, that’s never happened to me either.
When most students—and most teachers—think of assessment, …
Do you want your students hanging on to your every word?
Tell great stories!
Tell exciting adventures!
How? By implementing TPRS, a language teaching approach that revolves around stories.
In this post, we dive into some TPRS books …
What exactly is “context”?
Looking at the word’s origin gives us a lovely image.
It’s from the Latin contextus, which means a weaving or putting together.
I bet you thought the “text” part of “context” referred to text. I …
Does the phrase “technology in the language classroom” make you feel insecure?
Threatened, even?
Are you already quaking with fear at the idea of an AI takeover of your job?
Are you imagining the robots in “I, Robot” crashing through …
Throughout history, many trends in the world of language teaching have come and gone.
Some have graced us with just a brief visit.
Others have stood the test of time and become part of the training of language teachers the …
There’s nothing quite like it.
It’s a dynamic and fast-paced job.
It gives you the chance to influence lives while immersing yourself in language and culture.
You want to be a foreign language teacher, and who could …
Have you ever had to teach a teenager how to drive?
If so, you remember how helpless, and even terrified, you felt as you gave that teen the wheel.
It’s hard to give up control over something so important.
But …