Comments on: The complete guide to ELT Jargon Part 26

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:32:40 +0000

Thanks karrar. Although this page is just supposed to be a joke, I hope we do have some useful stuff on here too!

By: karrar Iesa Hamed

karrar Iesa Hamed — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:06:14 +0000

I am grateful to people who stablished this web site -TEFL. Since i am non native english languish teacher – sudanese tefler- I get a lot of it .

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:38:26 +0000

Thanks. Though the idea goes all the way back to The Devil’s Dictionary, the definitions are all made up by me in my spare time. Links to other funny blogs on my much neglected Links page under “funny TEFL blogs”. If anyone ever publishes a compedium of TEFL humour, I’d definitely buy a copy.

By: eisensei

eisensei — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:23:21 +0000

Alex, thanks for this post. I love it, especially dictogloss – priceless, absolutely priceless. Do you come up with these yourself, and if so, I agree with Jeremy – a book of these would sell I think, and the fact that you have 26 parts, you could probably publish a series. When I have the time, I will definitely check out the others.

By the way, you mentioned that several other bloggers do TEFL humour as well. Are there any links on your site?

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:01:38 +0000

Thanks Jeremy. Can’t imagine the world is ready for a professional TEFL humour writer and there are several bloggers who do it much better, but I do dream of the day when Thornbury’s An A to Z of ELT comes with my alternative definitions too

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:06:24 +0000

This is so cool. The best thing is you’ve identified so many day-to-day experiences that we teachers go through and never think about … expectancy grammar (know it well), chat bots (oh yes), paused listening …

I’m tempted to sign up for twitter just so I can tweet this. I’m even tempted to laugh out loud and write it in that funny new way …

Very good … you should do this professionally!