Category Archives: ELT

Gramster and Vocabster now online and pay what you want

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  How often do you eat breakfast with a swiss army knife? I’m guessing that the answer is “never”, but I’d love to hear otherwise in the comments We most often use specific tools for specific functions. That’s one of the secrets behind Edulang’s greatest successes in materials developing. One of our most specific E-learning tools for grammar and vocabulary has been a huge hit, and when it came out, in less than a year, we had tens of thousands of learners throughout the world.  So cool! Gramster I and II and Vocabster have evolved quite a bit since their release and (…)

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Student Feedback is Priceless

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    How often do you seek your students’ feedback: each semester, weekly, after each class?   In the same vein of thought, when I blogged about the four key factors affecting the business of ELT elearning, one of my main points addressed “collaboration”, and how “materials improvement can now occur in collaboration with teachers and learners which is revolutionary for small companies like Edulang”. Here’s a perfect example:  this past month I’ve been collaborating with a group of software engineering students at SUPINFO, a well-known school in France. Yohan, one of the group leaders, and a number of his (…)

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What’s the “trick” for motivating more L2 in our #ELT classrooms?

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  The Great Debate:  to L1 or not to L1   Have you ever tried banning L1 in your classroom? I’ll be the first to admit it.  Yes, I’ve tried, and often these efforts were fruitless… ok, not even often… 90% of the time.  Sometimes with a very small group it can work, but as many of us teach in larger monolingual classrooms (One of the classic “Ten things I think I know” via Ken Wilson), the directive effort of only using L2 rarely works.   So… what’s the trick to getting them to speak more English?   I’m writing (…)

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Teacher spotlight: Shaune Peebles and TOEIC® prep

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  Today’s post will be another in the fine series of … I recently crossed paths with Shaune Peebles after he started using Test Simulator TOEIC® in class, and our expat discussions about teaching in China, living in Europe and Edulang’s apps have been quite enjoyable, so I asked Shaune if he’d like to share a bit more here. Hence, without further ado… One of the most important and time-consuming parts of my week is lesson prep. For me, it’s important to have quality, practical, and, if possible, unique materials to give to my students.  While I agree with the (…)

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Come join me for a webinar today with @rediaula !

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    Today, April 26th, at 7:30PM Paris-Madrid time (check your time here), I’ll be giving a webinar thanks to Maria (@MJGSM) and the Spanish Education Community “Internet en el Aula“.   Feel free to check out the slides which explain in greater detail what I’ll be covering, but in general I’ll be exploring how the internet and elearning is changing our profession, seeking on-the-ground experiences from those that attend, and finally I’ll be presenting Edulang’s pay what you want program, our thoughts on changes within ELT and a quick summary of the applications we’ve developed. Here’s the WizIQ link (…)

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