New TEFL articles etc Jan 2009
Can’t I get someone to write this for me as a guest post as well? No? Oh well, while I wait for Chomsky to do this 50,000 word guest article, let’s just make it a list of links with no attempted witticisms then:
15 tips for people attending TESOL conferences (a “tribute”* to Darren Elliot’s article in English Teaching Professional magazine)
15 more ways of classifying classroom questions
15 ways of classifying classroom questions
Hmm, felt like I’d spent far more time writing than that little list would suggest. Make me feel better by having a click on the links in December 2008 Part One and Part Two, will you?
* Meaning a rip off of
Tags: classroom language, teacher talk
January 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
RE: 15 tips for people attending TESOL conferences (a great selection of advice), I woould add a few things.
- Find out if the presenter is sponserted by a publisher. If they are, they’re probably selling you a book.
- If someone is presenting research they’ve conducted, it will be very, very boring. You have been warned and only have yourself to blame.
- Plan on attending a workshop at least one in every two sessions. Time tends to pass quicker and you generally come away with something you can use in class.
- People from the most exotic locations give the crappest sessions. I have no idea why this is.
- Jeremy Harmer is quite entertaining, as is Scott Thornbury. Hugh Dellar, despite his ‘Innovations’ being worth a mere 67.1% is another who has the whole presentation thing down to a fine art, as is Michael Swan.
- I avoid ‘conference dinners’ like the plague so can’t comment, but can suggest that avoiding them like the plague has always done me fine.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I’m not drunk, despite what my numerous typos may suggest.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
DO NOT MOCK DO NOT INSULT YOU ARE PLAYING WITH THE INFLAMMABLE
January 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Eh?
January 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
YOU DO NOT EXIST. YOU ARE A FIGMENT. GO AWAY. CEASE YOUR MOCKERY.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Paul, where is the mockery in this post? And why are you too ashamed to write under your own name? Surely, if a comment is only worth posting anonymously it isn’t worth posting at all (to paraphrase a mother’s saying from an earlier, politer age)
January 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Is he talking to you or me, Alex?
Meanwhile… David V. in ‘blatant ripoff of TEFL Tastic post’ shocker
http://www.eltworld.net/blog/2009/01/if-you-really-must-go-to-that-tefl-conference/
January 30th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Yes, I’m afraid that Paul Lowe, the Patron Saint of sw[EDIT]ndlers and ch[EDIT]rlatans, has been back on the prowl. He has left his slug-like trail all over my blogs! Eugh…!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Do you think it could go viral David? Seeing as my article was also a blatant rip off I think everyone should get involved and the next person should write a blatant rip off of yours…
Sandy- I’d usually edit nasty comments like that more heavily, but Paul is an exception so you more or less get away with it this time