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“Chinpoko”- Japanese education quote of the day
“Save UK ELT” Number 10 petition
‘Shane English School (NZ) faces liquidation’?
(Proper) writing and blogging
(T)EFL football links
101 easy TEFL blog posts
15 reasons to TEFL on Twitter
17 easy ways to write a TEFL blog post, article or workshop plan
17 TEFLtastic Present Continuous games
20 ways to stop your students translating
200,000 views!
2000 comments!
2007- A year in Eikaiwa
23 Experiences of Language Teaching
25 motivational messages for TESOL teachers
25 things I have done that have less value than TEFL
25 ways to be the best TEFLer you can be
25 ways to get away with being a crap English teacher
33 cultural differences to annoy you in the classroom
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Course Providers Try to Rip You Off – Part 2
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Courses Try to Rip You Off – Part 1
6 Ways TEFL Certificate Courses Try to Rip You Off – Part 3
7 things you probably didn’t know about me
A 21st century skimming and scanning activity
A big change at the BC
A big thank you to TEFLers everywhere
A bit of TEFL justice
A blast from the EL Gazette
A couple more Xmas presents from your TEFL Santa
A few more Xmas and New Year worksheets
A fireside chat with Sandy McManus
A good day for tedium
A history of TEFL blogging Part One
A little bit more reality in TEFL theory
A much neglected TEFL teaching skill
A new motto for TEFL
A new motto for TEFLtastic
A one minute break for teachers
A sense of perspective from an unexpected quarter
A short diversion in which we advert to ancient Chinese wisdom
A TEFLtastic link up
A treat for Guardian-reading English teachers everywhere
A typical TEFL biography (and one big difference)
A typical TEFL host family story…
A way to do away with ALTs?
Academic feud au lait
Academic feud Part Four- Gloves (and masks) off!
Academic word list useful links
All CELTA courses are not the same
All generalisation is bad!
All I want for Xmas is a PDF
All the worksheets are here! (July 2009 Part 3)
ALT quote of the day
Alternative TEFL jargon August 2009
Am I past my TEFL peak?
An A to Z of Engrish Part 4 – H to L
An A to Z of Japanese English Part One- A to C
An A to Z of Japanese English Part Two- D
An A to Z of Korean English (Konglish) expressions
An alternative A to Z of ELT Part 15
An Alternative Dictionary of ELT jargon Part 17
An alternative dictionary of ELT Part 16
An alternative to Twitter for TEFLers
An alternative way of boosting your teaching confidence
An alternative way of planning your lessons
An amusing vocabulary memory trick
An apology
An appeal to TEFLers everywhere
An interview with Alex Case of TEFLtastic blog
An interview with Bruce V of TEFL International Part 5
An interview with Bruce Veldhuisen of TEFL International
An interview with EFL Geek, the real grandfather of TEFL blogging
An interview with Katie of TEFLlogue (History of TEFL blogging Part Three)
An unusual way of preparing for your CELTA
And the Certificate in Money for Nothing Teacher Training goes to…
And the funniest TEFL blog award goes to…
Another 25 extracts from the brochures of crappy English schools
Another 25 quotes from advertising for schools with a quality disability
Another day, another jumper
Another money saving tip for TEFLers
Another reason not to jump on the CLIL bandwagon?
Another TEFL conspiracy theory proved
Anyone can learn a language in just three months
Applied Linguistics dictionary Part 19
April fools? TEFL is full of them!
Are EFL textbooks getting better or worse?
Are there already too many TEFL blogs?
Are there too few TEFL blogs?
Are you a TEFL otaku?
Ask Auntie Alex- All your troubles solved with TEFL Part Four
Ask Auntie Alex- Solve all your troubles with TEFL Part Two
Ask Auntiie Alex- Solve all your troubles with TEFL Part Three
ATPR/ TPRA
Authentic Materials and Student Motivation
Back to the future in Japan
Be proud of your DELTA tattoo
Beaten up by Confucius
Become (more of) a Webhead with free online training
Becoming a TEFL course provider
Being a professional without a profession Quote of the Day
Believing everything about Hiroshima
Best of Mastertalker Interactive Games and Activities
Beyond standardisation
Big Brother is teacher training you
Big Teacher
Blue-eyed English teachers quote of the day
Body vocabulary for kids
Breaking into TEFL teacher training
Breasts in ELT
British ELT Publishing
Bruce Veldhuisen interview Part Three- TEFL and TI update
Bruce Veldhuisen of TEFL International Interview Part 4
Busy making others busy
Busy, busy, busy
Cambridge and Trinity Diploma links
Cambridge DELTA questions- answers please!
Cambridge ESOL pops up in the strangest places
Can teacher development make you happy?
Career paths in ELT publishing
Career paths in ELT publishing Part Three
Career paths in ELT publishing Part Two
CELTA graduates to go through 24 teaching hour ordeal
CELTA Interview Fees
Changing your accent with your whole body
Christmas and New Year teaching ideas 2008
Christmas error correction
Christmas is all about the kids, maaaan
Clash of the TEFL heavyweight bloggers
Classroom language links
CLIL is no longer a punishment
Clueless about TEFL quote of the day
Coming to you soon from Japan- Cool biz
Comparative and superlative adjectives worksheets and games
Completely meaningless TEFL research results Part One
Confucius’s lessons for English teachers
Confucius, he say- Ripping off is the best form of flattery
Control your life with ELT Part One- TEFLtastic voting
Controlling under fives
Copyright and the TEFL teacher
CPD= Exploitation?
Craptus TEFL and the Guardian are up to their tricks again
Daily quote about Japan
Daily quote about teaching
Daily Teaching Quote Part Four
David Attenborough- TEFL teacher trainer
Deep TEFL quote of the day
Designing an extended speaking task
Determiners (articles etc) games, songs and worksheets
Development, blogs, books and Japan- An interview with Darren Elliott of Lives of Teachers blog
Differences between Japanese and Korean students
Diploma or MA? Let battle commence!
Distance learning Quote of the day
Do no harm?
Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?
Do you love your job?
Do you need teacher training and qualifications before your first TEFL job?
Do you want the temporary buzz of moving on and/ or up too?
Do your duty when you are living abroad
Dodgy- dodgier- the dodgiest
Does better pay really lead to better teaching?
Don’t do the CELTA
Dr Johnson does TEFL
Dr Johnson plays Call My Bluff
Dream dictionary for TEFL teachers Part Two
East Asians learning English
EFL and ESOL: worlds apart?
EFLYLPS
Eikaiwa through history quote of the day
EIL/ ELF quote of the day
EL Gazette campaign to save UK TEFL
ELT Jargon June 2009
ELT News Think Tank
ELT publishing trendspotter
ELT Publishing Trendspotter 2010 Part One
ELTJ in defence of textbooks Part One
Email games and other worksheets
Emotican’t, emotiwon’t
English and the English in Wimbledon
English Droid is back!
English for art students
English for Very Specific Purposes (EVSP)
English teacher presents past perfect, fights for freedom
English teachers being kicked out of China
English teaching professional?
English Today for free
ETS to introduce new exam for teachers
Even celebrities hate TEFLers
Even newer new Nova news
Evidence-based teaching?
Exclusive- Interview with Juan Pablo Falomir of Laughing Coyote School of English
Experimental lessons
Exploding baths and English teaching
Fabio Capello reforms British football-and TEFL!
Face2Face with teenagers
Five more reasons to hate ETS
Flower sex in the EFL classroom
For your information
Four proposals to reform TEFL Part One
Four Proposals to Reform TEFL Part Two- the TEFL Legal Fund
Four ways to get your worksheets on the Net in less than ten minutes
Free books for teachers in Korea and Japan
Free copy of English Teaching Professional
Free online TEFL training???
French secondary school teacher freed after 8 day ordeal
From Inside Inside Teaching Part One- On Observations
From the latest book on technology in education
Fun for all the family
Games to practice relative clauses
Getting out of trouble in the EFL classroom
Give us a job!
Goddess English
Golly gosh, not Geos too??!
Grade up with graded readers
Grappling with teaching abroad Quote of the Day
Guardian TEFL fades away
Guardian TEFL wises up
Guest piece- 2000 Sri Lankan English Teachers Coming to Korea??
Guest piece- 4 more stupid decisions your TEFL colleagues make and why they make them
Guest piece- Blogging for teacher development
Guest piece- Doing the YL Extension to the CELTA
Guest piece- If I Was a TEFL Billionaire…
Guest piece- Start using technology in your classes, or just go ahead and retire!
Guest piece- Why I Mentor
Guest piece-Hubpages for TEFLers
Guest pieces wanted, guest pieces supplied
Guest post- The Homework Conundrum
Guest worksheet of the month
Guest Writer Number 2- Laurent
Guest writer number 3- Troubled in Tunisia
Guest Writer Number 4- Sharon McCulloch from “somewhere out East”
Guest writer number one- Do’s and Don’ts for Bosnia etc.
Guest writer: When I Am A TEFL Billionaire by Katie from TEFLlogue
H1N1 as a reason for cancelling classes
Hang all teachers who play hangman
Happy International Year of Languages
Harry Potter and Order of English Teachers
Has the TEFL blogging zeitgeist changed?
Have “alternative” TEFL courses been good for the industry?
Headline news- New Year’s resolution lasts past first week!
History for ESL students
Honeymoons for TEFLers
Hong Kong gas billionaire snaps up Birmingham language school
Host family horror stories
How can we increase TEFL pay?
How do we know if what we say is “right”?
How I nearly learnt Japanese
How much are you like your house party self online?
How much change do you really want?
How much Christmas cheer can one class handle?
How my teaching is like my kicking
How not to hate the locals Part Two
How not to teach pronunciation
How should TEFL reviews change?
How teaching English can save your life Quote of the Day
How TEFL taught me not to trust the Guardian
How the future of textbooks has to be
How the future of textbooks has to be
How to choose a good summer school
How to cope with methodology books
How to learn from my mistakes
How to make sure teachers can really teach
How to pass IELTS Speaking
How to really improve the standard of TEFL courses
How to spot a bad TEFL job Part One
How to spot a TEFL advertorial
How you could make your blog popular
How’s your ultimate job and/ or life going?
I don’t believe it!
I’ll believe in technology in the classroom when… Part Five
I’ll believe in technology in the classroom when… Part One
I’ll believe in technology in the classroom when… Part three
I’ll believe in technology in the classroom when…Part Four
I’ll believe in technology in the classroom when…Part Two
IELTS Academic Writing tips for students
IELTS, TOEIC, TOEFL, FCE, CAE and CPE worksheets, articles and tips
If you were still resisting technology in TEFL
If your students hate classes based on the textbook
Insulting your Ecuadorean hosts
Interview with a Marxist TEFLer/ TEFLing Marxist
Interview- Jason West Dishes on Guardian Languages and Sets the TEFL World to Rights!
Interview- TEFL Hero Jon Marks on the life of a full-time TEFL writer
Is a bad one to one teacher more useful than pairwork?
Is a good teacher really a good investment?
Is a good teacher worth good money? Part Two
Is it possible to learn anything from “the teflnet”?
Is science welcome in TEFL?
Is teacher training just common sense?
Is TEFL recession proof?
It was had been being a games games games games TEFLtastic world
It’s a games games games games games games TEFLtastic world for kids- Flashcard and drilling games
It’s a games games games games games games TEFLtastic world Part 2- Word bag games
It’s a games games games games games games TEFLtastic world Part Four
It’s a games games games games games games TEFLtastic world- Politeness competition
It’s a games games games games games games telephonetastic world
It’s a televisual tefltastic experience!
It’s all down to us, guys
It’s the University English class Guess the Country Game!
It’s English* Jim, but not as we know it…(dealing with Japanese English)
JALT highlights- TEFL oyaji gag* of the day
Japan by numbers Part three
Japan explained Part Two
Japan Explained- FAQs and SAQs Part Five
Japan or Thailand- A difficult choice?
Japan? It’s just like Italy
Japanese college students learn slower than chimps
Japanese education explained
Japanese English learners quotes of the day
Japanese English, Engrish, Japlish or just plain rubbish??
Japanese etiquette- Required reading
Japanese films we’d love to see
Japanese quote of the day
Japanese slang Part One
Japlish dictionary Part Three- E, F and G
Jon Marks- Is there anything this man can’t do??
Just when you thought Eikaiwa couldn’t get any worse…
Karenne on blogging- Interview Part One
Karenne on teaching- interview Part Two
Karenne on The Industry- Interview Part Three
Keeping YLs on Task – Part Two
Keeping YLs on Task Part One
Korean body parts vocabulary memory game
Korean colour vocabulary learning aid
Korean euphemisms?
L1 in the very young learner classroom
Language on youtube Dec 07
Language teaching, teenagers, evaluation and certification
Last chance for free books for teachers in Japan
Last week’s new worksheets Part One
Last week’s new worksheets September 09 Part One
Latest Nova news for the lazy
Letter from a mate’s ex-girlfriend- The definite article
Letter from a reader- DoSs as a sociological curiosity
Letter from a reader- Getting started with teacher training
Letter from a reader- Resistance to games
Letter from a reader- Setting up a TEFL blog
Letter from a reader- TEFL for oldsters
Letter from a reader- Windsor Schools
Linguistically good reads
Linguistics- It tastes good and it’s good for you!
Links vaguely linked to language education
Listenings – why bother?
Live a TEFL dream
Live by tepid spirit*
Live Listening quotes and links
Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook for Pervs
Losing my best students
Losing your students in the blink of an eye
MA= My A*se! Super CELTA is it, man!
Macmillan admits to offering bribes to get textbook contract
Making textbook listenings manageable and fun
Malware problems solved
Man on a mission?
Market Leader Lesson plans and worksheets
Maybe British host families aren’t the worst
Maybe we should riot too
Me me me, me me me, me me me me me me me
Medical and pharmaceutical worksheets
Medical English vocabulary builder
Metaphor for language learning number 431 of 1073
Michael J Wallace on science, theory and practice
Mini reviews
Money saving tips for TEFLers
More ELT publishing bad news?
More IELTS merriment
More reserch is required
Ms Kelly Blackwell, you are talking out of your…
Multimedia English Conversation
My favourite blog of the moment
My first teaching qualification
My football and World Cup teaching ideas
My greatest TEFL creation
My Lonely Planet is full of eels
My personal motto
My philosophy of teeth cleaning
My PLN (personal learning network)
My problems with improvisation Part One
My problems with improvisation Part Two
My TEFL blog stalker experience
My TEFL tribe
My top 10 books for/ about EFL for young learners
Nationalism in the classroom Part 2
Natural English Intermediate
Netiquette and TEFLers
New Advanced EFL worksheets (almost all communicative, mainly fun)
New Advanced level worksheets
New anti-TEFL scam Facebook group
New articles and worksheets May 2008
New articles and worksheets Nov 08 Part Two
New articles, worksheets and reviews June 2008
New body vocabulary for kids page
New candidate for the all time greatest English conversation school name
New classroom handouts, flashcards and games Jan 2010 Part Three
New classroom language worksheets and phrase lists
New Cutting Edge Intermediate supplementary stuff
New discussion questions page
New EFL handouts Feb 2010 Part Two
New ELT articles May 2009
New ELT worksheets August 2010 Part One
New ESL handouts November 2009 Part Two
New evidence of my humungous IQ
New from the world of applied linguistics…
New fun classroom handouts May 2010 Part One
New game-like worksheets March 2010 Part Two
New games and other photocopiables November 09 Part Three
New games and other worksheets July 2010 Part One
New Incredible English and phonics worksheets and flashcards
New Intermediate worksheets June 2010
New month, new TEFL soundbites
New PDF handouts Jan 2010 Part Two
New photocopiable handouts November 2009 Part One
New photocopiable worksheet 12 December 2007
New photocopiable worksheet of the day 11 December 2007
New photocopiable worksheet of the day 14 December 2007
New photocopiable worksheets May 2009
New stuff July 2008 Part Two
New stuff November 08
New Teaching English Reviews and Articles Dec 08 Part Two
New Technical and Medical English worksheets
New TEFL articles and ideas April 2010
New TEFL articles and reviews August 2009
New TEFL articles and teaching ideas Dec 08
New TEFL Articles and Worksheets April 2008
New TEFL articles etc April 2009
New TEFL articles etc August 08
New TEFL articles etc Jan 2009
New TEFL articles etc June 2009
New TEFL articles etc March 2009
New TEFL articles etc October 2009
New TEFL articles etc September 2009
New TEFL articles Feb 09
New TEFL articles October 2008
New TEFL articles September 08 Part Two
New TEFL links May 2010
New TEFL PDFs April 2010 Part One
New TEFL.net articles and reviews May 2010
New TEFL/ TESOL/ TESL/ TEFAL/ TEFLON articles etc July 2009
New TEFLtastic communication games March 2010 Part Three
New TEFLtastic worksheets August 2009 Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets August 2009 Part Two
New TEFLtastic worksheets etc January 2010
New TEFLtastic worksheets Feb 2010 Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets July 2009 Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets July 2009 Part Two
New TEFLtastic worksheets June 2009 Part Three
New TEFLtastic worksheets June 2009 Part Two
New TEFLtastic worksheets May 2010 Part Two
New TEFLtastic worksheets October 2009 Part One
New TEFLtastic worksheets October 2009 Part Two
New TEFLy stuff of various varieties
New UsingEnglish.com stuff
New word of the day
New words in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
New worksheet of the day 10 December 2007
New worksheets, articles and reviews Sept 08
New worksheets, workshops, reviews and articles July 2008 Part One
New Year, New Grammar
New Year, New worksheets
New YL, business and uncountable noun worksheets
Next time a publisher tries to sell you a new textbook
No no, no no no no no, no no no no no, there’s no Nova*
No qualifications or experience needed to just teach conversation
Not just your average TEFL prisoner
Not new news on Nova,…
Nova goes supernova as the world looks on
Numerous number games
Nutty TEFL idea of the day
Oh, those halcyon days when . . .
Older = wiser = wider vocab??
On EFLippancy
On the CELTA, Japan, and very small learners
Online CELTA on the way
Online TEFL certificates
Only 10 more teaching days till Christmas!
Pairwork: “It started with a kiss…”*
Patriotism hits you in the strangest places
Playing by Japanese rules
Poor TEFL teachers (it’s official!)
Post-post-modernism in the EFL classroom
PPP RIP? Part One
PPP RIP? Part Two
PPPP and TPTPT
Prepositions and directions worksheets etc
Prices of EFL textbooks to drop?
Prince Harry takes i-to-i TEFL course
Proof of a TEFL oligarchy??
Psychology for English teachers May 09 Part Two
Psychology for teachers May 2009
Putting the grammar back into Xmas
Putting yourself above the TEFL riffraff
Question from a reader
Question from a reader- Legal English
Question from a reader: DELTA, CELTA or RSA Trinity?
Questions from a reader- Cookie and Friends and little kids
Questions from a reader- Mexico to Spain?
Questions from the audience- Information to find out when choosing a CELTA course
Quote of the day 12 December 2007
Quotes from and about the Chairman Mao of Linguistics
Random facts about Yiddish and Hebrew
Random gestures around the world
Random ideas 3- English at Home, English Away
Random TEFL ideas Part Two- TEFLstats.com
Read article + talk about article = learn a language
Real teaching with technology by numbers
Really an interview with Alex Case of TEFLtastic
Recommended books for “half crazed language teachers”
Request for advice- A mixed everything trial class!
Reviewing graded readers
Richard Dawkins says you should take that promotion
Rod Ellis on theory and practice
Rules, patterns, words and conclusions
Rules, Patterns, Words and Doubts
Rumours about TOEIC
rumours of big name transfers in the EFL league
Saving the world’s dialects through technology
Schools cut past tense from language program
Scientific language teaching finally arrives!
Should you worry about the elf?
Similarities between Japanese and Korean Part One
Similarities between Japanese and Korean Part Two
Simple Simple Past warmers
Sir Lez Patterson on UK TEFL
Six things to do as soon as you finish your TEFL course
Six things to think about before deciding to teach in Asia
SLA error correction
Slogans for crap English schools
Slogans for crappy English schools Part Three
Some English teachers need to be more careful with their English
Some new ideas about CPD in ELT
Some nice quotes about Rules Patterns and Words
Some nice quotes from the last ELTJ
Some people think the CELTA is too short…
Some provocative quotes on elicitation from the latest ETP
Something chewy from Jeremy Harmer
Something for post-weekend
Speaking Spanish in the English class
Speed mentoring
Still teachers run deep
Stolen teaching idea of the day
Stranded Australians
Submarine English
Surprises about English punctuation
Surprises about English spelling
Surprising things about British and American English
Surprising things about speech acts
Sustainable TEFL blogging Part One
teach in China,look for a girl/boy friend and enjoy your life here
Teaching 500 million students
Teaching and using classroom objects
Teaching big kids surprisingly little
Teaching English for Enron
Teaching English in Japan- Sources Part One
Teaching English in Spain Links
Teaching idiots quote of the day
Teaching in God’s land
Teaching in Madrid- A Summary
Teaching in the Czech Republic- Then and Now
Teaching metaphors Part 73
Teaching on youtube 16 December 2007
Teaching preschool English links
Teaching quote of the day
Teaching quote of the day
Teaching quote of the day 14 December 2007
Teaching quote of the day 17 December 2007
Teaching quote of the day two
Teaching with no energy
Technology and CPD
TED.com for TEFLers and linguists Part One
TEFL according to that famous user-generated encyclopedia
TEFL and linguistics blogs and sites- Add link!
TEFL as extended adventure holiday Quote of the day
TEFL as often private education- often good or often bad?
TEFL at the Edinburgh festival
TEFL bloggers of the world unite!
TEFL book of the decade?
TEFL book reviews online
TEFL book reviews reach a new low
TEFL by numbers Feb 2008
TEFL conspiracy theory of the day
TEFL economics
TEFL fever
TEFL fun and games Part one- Guess me!
TEFL gets famous!
TEFL in the news- IH takes 9 year old into youth academy, trains him for greatness
TEFL Insider Part 1- He tried FELCHing, but it wasn’t for him
TEFL Insider Part 3
TEFL Insider Part 5- Inside TEFL reviews
TEFL Insider Part Five- NOVA no va?
TEFL Insider Part Four
TEFL Insider Part Six- Inside Scott Thornbury
TEFL Insider Part Six- No way out for Nova?
TEFL Insider Part Six- Nova and the CELTA
TEFL Insider Part Three- Breaking News
TEFL Insider Part Three- Inside ELT Publishing
TEFL Insider Part Two- EFLUK this, I’m off!
TEFL International Update
TEFL International’s Bruce Velhuisen- Interview Part Two
TEFL jargon from this month’s ETP
TEFL jobs glossary
TEFL joins the North South divide
TEFL links of the month April 09
TEFL links of the month March 2009
TEFL makes the technology news
TEFL mentors needed!
TEFL metaphor Quote of the day
TEFL Olympics quote of the day
TEFL on stage
TEFL Presidential Elections update
TEFL quotes of the year 2008
TEFL reality
TEFL rent a quote of the day
TEFL scabs
TEFL Scooby Doo, where are you?
TEFL soundbite of the month
TEFL Stat of the Day
TEFL stat of the day 14 October 2008
TEFL Stat of the Day 22 Oct 08
TEFL teachers rock!
TEFL tip of the day- Prepositions of time
TEFL why oh why oh why Part One- Homework
TEFL Why oh why oh why Part Two- L1 in class
TEFL Why oh why Part Four- Listening Comprehension
TEFL Why oh why Part Three
TEFL World Presidential Elections 2008 Update
TEFL writing- done and done!
TEFL, stress and me
TEFL.net is twittering
TEFL= the perfect job
TEFLing and writing- how to fit them together
TEFLing quote of the day
TEFLing quote of the day
TEFLtastic fun and games Part two- Business problems roleplays
TEFLtastic in the flesh!
TEFLtastic is moving on
TEFLtastic on Twitter
TEFLtastic policy document and manifesto
TEFLtastic reaches half a million
TEFLtastic reorganisation
Telegraph TEFL
Telephoning in English worksheets, games, lesson plans and reviews
Ten blogs that are dead (to TEFL) but are still worth reading
Tense review games and worksheets
TESOL revolution
Testing and reviewing new EFL materials – Can talking about TEFL books really be any use?
That lightbulb moment
That’s the way to do it!
The 200 word TEFL challenge
The acceptable face of linguistics Part Three
The Alternative Dictionary of TEFL acronyms etc Part 18
The alternative EFL jargon dictionary Part 12
The Alternative EFL Jargon Dictionary Part Five
The Alternative EFL Jargon Dictionary Part One
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 10
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 14
The alternative ELT jargon dictionary Part 20
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 22
The Alternative ELT Jargon Dictionary Part 7
The Alternative ELT jargon dictionary Part Four
The Alternative English teaching jargon dictionary Part Two
The Alternative TEFL Jargon dictionary Part 11
The Alternative TEFL jargon dictionary Part 21
The Alternative TEFL jargon dictionary Part Six
The “Should you be teaching EAP?” quiz
The Benefits of Exams for Young Learners
The benefits of teaching in Japan
The best education in the world
The best end of term revision games
The best ever IELTS humour?
The Best of Chasing TEFL Ladies
The best of English Teacher X Part Two
The best of Teaching English Guest Writer Articles
The best of TEFLtastic 2007 Part One
The best TEFL anecdote of the century
The British government learns what any TEFLer could have told them
The CELTA as seen by an outsider
The CELTA Ten Commandments
The CELTA- what you’re letting yourself in for
The CLT robot
The communist method of error correction
The complete guide to ELT Jargon Part 26
The conundrums of being an ETP Part One
The cultural rebound
The disadvantages of teaching in Japan
The Disneyfication of English teaching
The Diving Bell and the Lesson Plan
The dream dictionary for TEFL teachers
The end of accreditation?
The Financial Times on EFL in Brighton
The first English teacher in Japan
The first language teaching hippy?
The Good Enough Teacher?
The great teaching abroad CPD dilemma
The greatest misconception in TESOL?
The greatest TEFL soap opera?
The importance of noses in Eikaiwa
The internet can still surprise me…
The irritations of living in Japan
The Joy of Photocopying
The Meaning of Scotland
The most overrated things in TEFL Part One
The most overrated things in TEFL Part Two
The most TEFLtastic attempts at humour in 2009
The most unusual reason to TEFL abroad?
The motivation conundrum
The mystery of Japanese motivation solved!
The new Cambridge SELTA
The new(ish) owner of MET and ETP magazines
The newest news on Nova
The number one most important thing you need to know about teaching very young learners
The only remaining bits of the English Droid
The other side of Oxford Street
The rebirth of TEFL dirt digging
The secret to writing EFL textbooks
The secrets to being happy as a TEFL teacher
The strange thing about being back home
The TEFL blogs/ TEFL schools culture clash
The TEFL Civil War Quote of the Day
The TEFL mentoring experiment has begun
The TEFL Why Oh Why series
The TEFLbs detective Part One – Brain Gym and ELT
The TEFLtastic Blacklist of Shame Guardian Watch 3
The TEFLtasticest attempts at humour 2008
The truth about TOEFL
The truth behind the toilet
The very newest news on Nova- SuperNOVA turns into a black hole
The voice of the “free TEFL course” speaks
The World TEFL Beer Index Part One
The Xmas list goes on and on
There are TEFL blogs and there are TEFL blogs
There was an English TEFL teacher, an Irish TEFL teacher and a Scottish TEFL teacher…
Things I feel unambiguous about in TEFL
This month’s supply of TEFL articles and reviews
Those pesky emails are now done!
Three years!
Time management for teachers 2- Time management for teacher forums
Time management tips for TEFL bloggers
Tips for the Automated Teacher
Tips for your tired salaryman classes
Tired of being a TEFL pleb?
Tired of typical ELT dialogues?
To CELTA or not to CELTA?
TOEIC and other TEFL News
TOEIC Bonanza!
TOEIC Bonanzazo!
TOEIC- the Test of English for International What??
Tokyo 4th best- we rock!
Trains on time but weather delayed
Travel English links
TTV
TV ads Modals of Probability lesson
TV’s only phonemic chart quote?
Twisted TEFL Job Ads Part One
Two more nearly been there moments
Two more ways to have fun with graded readers
Two new ways of blacklisting schools
Two ways of livening up textbook dialogues
Two years, one million clicks- Is it time for you to exploit me?
Unautomating teaching with Summerhill English Schools
University education quote of the day
Use all your talents when teaching
Using L1 in class (or not)
Very big wanted- TEFL.net reviewers
Want to improve the professional image of TEFL courses?
Warning, extended metaphor ahead! Learning a language = swimming
Warning- this post may include excess mutual appreciation
We now know what everyone needs to do to learn a language
Weekend TEFL courses- better than nothing or bringing us all down?
Weekly speech from the TEFL President Part One-New rules for the ESL Au Lait forum
Welcome to My TEFL World
What can we all learn from Nova?
What do beginners need most?
What do you do when you’re number one?
What I do to switch off from reading and blogging about TEFL
What I just learnt about American English
What I just learnt on YouTube
What I learnt about Rules Patterns and Words
What is a lesson plan?
What is the point of TEFLtastic blog?
What to Do If You’ve Been Had by Your TEFL Course
What to do with morphases.com
What was the biggest change in TEFL in the Noughties?
When elicitation goes wrong
When I am TEFL President
When needs analysis goes wrong
When student-centred goes too far
When the TEFLbabyboomer generation retires
Where are all the worksheets?
Who do you feel solidarity with?
Why are EFL classes so cheap?
Why are so many Spanish neurotic about their English?
Why are there so many bad English teachers in Japan?
Why are there so many bad English teachers in Japan? Part Three
Why are there so many bad English teachers in Japan? Part two
Why aren’t there more CELTA qualified teachers in Japan?
Why do the Japanese not speak better English?
Why English teaching is different in Japan Part 74
Why I’m not annoyed by the TEFL dossers
Why should I be a professional in my unprofessional school?
Why we really do what we do Part One- Error correction
Why we really do what we do Part Three- Culture
Why we really do what we do Part Two- Games
Why you don’t know where I work
Why your student reports are BS
Words of the day 11 December 2007
Words of the day 9 December 2007
Worksheets galore
World Cup bonanza on UsingEnglish.com
Worse than I thought- but with a ray of hope
Writing a novel as a metaphor for TEFLing
Writing and reading
Writing and teaching
Writing and workshopping
X in the classroom
Yet another great article from the IHT
You can’t Beat that sh*t! Oh, okay, turns out you can…
You know you spend too much time on the internet when
You know you’re not in Japan anymore when…
You know you’ve been in TEFL too long when… Brief return
You know your school owner has got delusions of grandeur when…
You live and learn
You’ve been in TEFL too long when…
Your DoS’s RMCITE (aka Nick’s Scale of Awesomeness)
Youtube for TEFLers May 2009