Social media detox: a video lesson
This is a video-based lesson for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, focusing on listening, speaking and vocabulary. Use it to your heart’s content.
Fossilization in language learning
Official definition of fossilization: Fossilization may be defined as “The point at which no further learning appears possible, with the student’s performance apparently impervious to both exposure to English and explicit error correction (i.e.: ‘set in stone’).”
Song to teach “must have”
Looking for a song to teach must have? The Day Before You Came, by Abba, contains as many as 15 examples. This is input flooding taken to a whole new level. It’s more like input tsunami, really. The bad news is that The Day Before You Came never really made it to the top of …
70 useful sentences for academic writing
Back in the late 1990s, in the process of reading for my MA dissertation, I put together a collection of hundreds of “sentence frames” that I felt could help me with my academic writing later on. And they did – immensely. After the course was over, I stacked my sentences away, but kept wondering if …