Thursday, June 5, 2025

Reviews & Resources

Becoming a language teacher

Wayne Trotman reviews a study of the socialisation of trainee-teachers Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education Fiona Farr, Angela Farrell and Elaine Freeman Edinburgh University Press, 2019 ISBN:...

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...

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’....

iWonder 1 Pupil’s Book

Jenny Dooley and Bob Obee Express Publishing ISBN: 9781471569111 The highlight of iWonder is the AR (Augmented Reality) feature. Users can listen to songs and watch videos...

A book that Lets Students Create their Own Stories

Wayne Trotman reviews a book that helps engage students STORIES WITHOUT END Taylor Sapp Alphabet Publishing, 2018 978-1-948-49211-9 Teachers of reading will be familiar with classes that...

Clowning Around: Adding Spontaneity to Training

Adrian Underhill and Alan Maley put spontaneity on the training agenda In our earlier, short article (EL Gazette Issue 465, page 15), we raised the...

Murphy is Still the Answer to a Teacher’s Prayer

Wayne Trotman looks at the latest English Grammar in Use ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE 5TH EDITION Edited by Raymond Murphy Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-45768-2 Now into...