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	<title>TEFLtastic with Alex Case &#187; ELT publishing</title>
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		<title>Yet another reason to write about TEFL</title>
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		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/yet-another-write-about-tefl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only three out of six students turned up for my New Cutting Edge Intermediate class on Past Perfect last week, and as the class went on and no more people arrived I increasingly got the feeling that the worksheet I&#8217;d prepared wasn&#8217;t quite right for the nice atmosphere the four of us had created. Given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random facts about Murphy&#8217;s Grammar in Use</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/cup/murphys-grammar-in-use/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/cup/murphys-grammar-in-use/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a PR piece on Cambridge&#8217;s recent award of an honorary MA to Raymond Murphy, presumably for single-handedly keeping CUP afloat: “If our estimates of the size of the second-hand and photocopying markets are reasonably accurate, there is probably a 1:5 ratio of new books sold to actual learners who have used these books, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearson buys 450-branch test preparation school chain in China</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/exams/pearson-buys-450-branch-test-preparation-school-chain-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/exams/pearson-buys-450-branch-test-preparation-school-chain-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EFL exams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Longman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They already own the China-based bits of the Wall Street English conversation school chain, so they just keep getting bigger. The article in the FT doesn&#8217;t speculate on it (because they are also owned by Pearson??), but I wonder whether they&#8217;ll use that position to push their PTE Academic test to replace IELTS. It&#8217;s certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost of Textbooks Past</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/ghost-of-textbooks-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/ghost-of-textbooks-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A great new blog &#8220;tribute&#8221; to amusing old TEFL titles that&#8217;s just started with English for Secretaries (1969) here. More promised if we are interested. I am!]]></description>
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		<title>The first self-published Business English book for teachers?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/self-published-business-english-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/self-published-business-english-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business English and ESP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So its author, the very well-known and well-respected BE author Paul Emmerson, claims for the photocopiable book Management Lessons. Interestingly, he&#8217;s also chosen to only sell it off his own site, here. I haven&#8217;t seen it yet, but the minute I finish this blog post I&#8217;ll email him to ask for a freebie review copy for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another reason why Business English textbooks are so Eurocentric?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/eurocentric-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/eurocentric-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business English and ESP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do wonder whether the third-rate British actors who do the dodgy German, French, Italian, Australian etc. accents on most BE textbook CDs balk at doing the same for Japanese and Chinese voices as it could be considered racist…]]></description>
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		<title>Holding our students back</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/holding-students-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/holding-students-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed ability classes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back when I was just a year or two off the RSA/ Cambridge CTEFLA, I remember one of my biggest worries was the way that the best students got even better quicker than the worst ones improved and the already difficult mixed level class split further and further apart over the length of the course. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELT Publishing Trendspotter – The Mega-Series</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/the-mega-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/the-mega-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m using Business Result Pre-Intermediate and fairly happy with it so far for its focus on the kind of functional language that students need to do business (rather than the language to talk about business that some others are mainly based around). I retain a certain suspicion of it, however, as it forms part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libyan sovereign wealth fund fourth largest shareholder in Pearson</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/pearson-shareholders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/pearson-shareholders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Longman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With 3.3%. As the CEO of Pearson pointed out, there is no way a publically-listed company can stop anyone buying that percentage of shares, and it hardly compares to some of the genuine sucking up to Qaddafi by British organisations and individuals, but still thought it was an interesting nugget of news. Also amusing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Macmillan titles in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/macmillan-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/macmillan-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macmillan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As with the lists of Cambridge and Pearson titles, lovingly typed out so that I can send you all freebies in exchange for short but perfectly formed reviews. Most noticeable for me this time was lots of titles for international schools/ ESOL/ fairly high level CLIL (not listed, as not exactly TEFL), something for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Cambridge English titles in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/cup/cup-elt-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/cup/cup-elt-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I should point out again, perhaps, that these lists are for TEFL.net reviews rather than my own amusement&#8230; As such, this doesn&#8217;t include all the CUP Applied Linguistics and Linguistics titles, as most of this year&#8217;s are a bit too theoretical to be worth reviewing on a site for teachers. There are noticeably more of such titles than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Pearson Longman ELT titles in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/pearson-longman-elt-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/pearson-longman-elt-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Longman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jason Renshaw did quite an interesting piece recently where he tried to replicate the typical teacher dipping into the sites of the big 4 and seeing how much they like what they come across. I&#8217;ve had no such original ideas of how to approach the subject, so just as in my teaching and my writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 100 publications that most changed TEFL</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/publications-that-changed-tefl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/publications-that-changed-tefl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[… by which I mean books, articles, papers, journals, magazines, websites, software, or even blogs and blog posts. As I have managed to read all the way through ELTJ a grand total of (ahem) three times in my life, my first draft is mainly books. I’d love to hear any and all other suggestions for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest piece &#8211; What’s the future of ELT publishing? by Vicki Hollett</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/elt-pub-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/elt-pub-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guest writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone would know, it would be Ms Hollett, author of many successful and well-loved textbooks and also the consistent online TEFL favourite Learning to Speak ‘merican. Unfortunately there are more questions than answers below, but they are very stimulating ones and if we make our answers silly enough maybe she’ll correct us in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen TEFL</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/kaizen-tefl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/kaizen-tefl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would love to be able to come up with a catchy name or consistent philosophy (like Dogme) for the process that I described in my worksheets post below, but long-winded and random are much more my personal ways of doing things. Luckily, though, it seems to have been done for me. From what I understand of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dreaded last unit</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/the-last-unit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/the-last-unit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the changes in ELT publishing since I&#8217;ve been teaching, the worst has to be the five year plans that lead to a book being launched in August 2012 however ready it is or, more likely, isn&#8217;t. A prime example of the consequences of this that I found recently was an IELTS teacher&#8217;s book that said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This month&#8217;s supply of TEFL articles and reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/teens/new-tefl-articles-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/teens/new-tefl-articles-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EFL CD ROMs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pearson Longman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[placement tests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teaching teenagers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching young learners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TEFL reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting with mine, then a selection of others: Thinking Time in ELT Finding a balance in the use of competition Level tests v Placement tests Using Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush in EFL classes (loads of variations, extensions and useful links) The Developing Teacher (Delta publishing book on CPD) review Primary Music Box [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macmillan admits to offering bribes to get textbook contract</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/macmillan-bribes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/publishing/macmillan-bribes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 13:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macmillan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching English in Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Full story in the Torygraph here. Ironically, Macmillan publish a graded reader in which &#8220;our hero is caught accepting a bribe&#8221; http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Longer-Ease-Intermediate-Macmillan/dp/1405072997]]></description>
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		<title>How should TEFL reviews change?</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/reviews-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/reviews-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ELT publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was typing out the usual easy but boring list of contents as part of an MET book review the other day, when it occured to me that it would just be easier and more sensible to mention how much you can see on Google Books, link to an Amazon page that has the Look Inside function [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing and reading</title>
		<link>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/writing-and-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tefl/writing-and-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Case</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it says in the article, The Big List of CPD in ELT that I linked a couple of posts ago was inspired by reading the (excellent but somehow difficult to imagine anyone buying) book The Developing Teacher. I originally started reading it to write a review, which is a great way of making you read [...]]]></description>
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