December’s intuition post took me on a long and unintended trip down my own language-learning memory lane and brought back all sorts of recollections of the processes I went through as a language learner. Here’s a thought that’s been nagging at me over the past month: How do I know the English I know today? …
This is a 10-minute video meant to remind you of / introduce you to songs containing the present perfect. Once you’ve picked the ones you like / your students might like (or have fun trashing), you can google up the lyrics and look up the video clip on Youtube. Have fun. By the way, the video …
There’s a very interesting discussion taking place on Scott Thornbury’s blog right now, sparked by his brilliant “feel” post. The central question he attempts to address is one which has been incessantly nagging at me for at least fifteen years: What’s the role of linguistic intuition in language learning?
What do modern EFL/ESL textbooks look like? This is a post I wrote before I became a full time author, back in 2011. Over the past few months I’ve analyzed dozens of EFL / ESL textbooks (I’m using the terms interchangeably) put out by the mainstream publishing houses. For better and for worse, all these …