Monday, June 9, 2025

Reviews & Resources

Review: 101 Psychological Tips

Sarah Mercer and Herbert Puchta’s 101 Psychological Tips Cambridge Handbook for Language Teachers Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-00-934370-1 This title is number fourteen in the growing series of easy-to-read pocket editions from...

Review: Activities for Mediation

Activities for Mediation: Building bridges in the ELT classroomBy Riccardo Chiappini and Ethan MansurDELTA Publishing, 2021ISBN: 978-3-12-501744-3 I will...

Review: From Teacher to Trainer

From Teacher to TrainerBy Matthew T. Ellman and Peter LucantoniCambridge, 2022ISBN: 978-1-108-82707-2 Since they often make bold claims as...

Reduce (prep-time), Reuse (activities), Recycle (paper)

Is the scrap paper piling up? Teacher Stephen Tarbuck offers his ideas to reuse scrap paper in the...

Navigating online teaching

Teaching online can be difficult to break into if you don’t know where to start. Luckily, experienced teacher...

ETpedia: Vocabulary

500 Ideas and Activities for Teaching Vocabulary Stacey H. Hughes, Fiona Mauchline and Julie Moore Pavilion, ISBN: 9781912755264 Vocabulary is central to language teaching. I welcome this...

Language Hub: Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book

Daniel Brayshaw and Jon Hird Macmillan Education, ISBN: 9781380016904 Language Hub is a new, six-level general English course for adults. The B1-level contains a thorough, balanced...

An oasis of data for research-hungry language teachers

Inge Alferink tells Gill Ragsdale about the OASIS Project Oasis was launched in 2018 to address the obstacles teachers face in using research. How does...

New ways to encourage critical thinking

Wayne Trotman reviews a book that aims to inject more critical thought into the language learning classroom CRITICAL THINKING IN ELT: A WORKING MODEL FOR...

Teaching English as a Lingua Franca

The journey from EFL to ELF Marek Kiczkowiak and Robert J. Lowe Delta Publishing ISBN: 9783125017351 Like other titles in this excellent series of teacher development books, this...

Focus on Vocabulary Learning

Marlise Horst Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780194003131 This 173-page book gave me fresh insights into teaching vocabulary. It covers familiar ground, such as corpora, frequency and ‘coverage’....
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