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The Use of Team Teaching and its Effect on EFL Students' Proficiency in English
30/06/2014 16:42
The Use of Team Teaching and its Effect on EFL Students' Proficiency in English
Having taken a Bell-Obeikan International Placement Test, six EFL students classes (each comprising 20 EFL students) from the King Saud University`s Preparatory Year Diploma program, Riyadh, were first...
Team Unteaching
11/01/2014 14:53
Team Unteaching
Team teaching is big in the countries of the world that want to learn English, or do they? In places as disparate as Cartomb, Sedan, and Triple ‘E’, Livya, Yours Truly has encountered the phenomenon of team unteaching, where the classroom workload has been divided between a...
Positions Hollywood
12/04/2013 08:56
Positions Hollywood
Stud`nts are always asking the question: `What`s a good way to learn English?` Learning by reading is true. However, it’s necessary to be interested, which is what makes you interesting. Conversation is then possible because you have something to talk about with people...
The ELT Interview: with Crazy Bob
10/04/2013 10:55
The ELT Interview: with Crazy Bob
ELT: Well, it's a great pleasure for us to get to finally talk to you Dr Robin. Our pants are wet as we speak. Could you just recap as to why you teach English language?
Dr Robin: They have my family. If I don't do what they say, they'll hurt them....
Hungry in Hungry
10/04/2013 10:43
Hungry in Hungry
I am often asked if I enjoy teaching, and the answer is as emphatic a no as I can manage. I do it for the gloriously intense feelings of superiority to those unfortunates who want to know how to spell 'I', because no one will employ me to stare at the wall from a prone...
Poe faced in Poland
10/04/2013 10:18
Poe faced in Poland
On the train in 2000 from Keleti Pályaudvar, the Eastern railway station in Budapest, to Warsaw in Poland where I`d accepted a post teaching English language and British History in English, I found myself in a railway carriage with a couple I remembered meeting before on...
The Further Adventures of Dr Rusher
10/04/2013 09:55
The Further Adventures of Dr Rusher
The quest for giving stud`nts marks for nothing at all goes on apace. Firmly ensconced with the Jizzy Ra International Academy of Riyald, Pseudi Yarubeer, the candidates greeted the good doctor with the legend on framed vellum parchment ten feet high that...
Magicians or Teachers
10/04/2013 09:21
Magicians Or Teachers
There`s a concept of man in relation to the externality called 'Mu'. Everything that exists outside the individual is, potentially, a part of his/her 'Mu'; or, to put it another way, what appears in one's experiential domain is for us and, in a very real way, the...
Barack, Obama `Presidential Speech`, January 22nd, 2013
27/02/2013 08:43
Barack: `We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense. And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken - you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat...
The TEFL`s Screw
28/01/2013 19:16
The TEFL`s Screw
Having spent almost twenty years teaching English as a foreign language, which is obviously `the work of the TEFL`, I`m not perturbed at the notion that my footsteps are devilled by employers and stud`nts alike. Of late, I`ve spent time in Pseudi Yarubeer at the `best...
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