https://youtu.be/TRj6RZ3nFpU Sue Lyon-Jones shared this wonderful video on her blog and it really hit me as a…

I hear it from students all the time. “I need to get rid of my accent” or “I need a real English accent.”…

Last week, one of my Twitter friends asked what he should reply to a student who asked what he needed to do to be as…

Recently, I’ve chanced upon a number of articles and blog posts championing the seemingly well established idea that…

Today, I watched an episode of the Youtube series - Mind Field. It is about a researcher in Japan who studies…

Can you be my psychiatrist? May I admit something? I’ve always had a severe sensitivity to language – especially…

Throughout the years, one thing above all continually astounds me about my fellow English Language teachers,…

Can you be my psychiatrist? May I admit something? I’ve always had a severe sensitivity to language – especially…

Years ago, fresh out of Teachers' College and testing myself in the trenches, I was faced with the task of putting…

I've written a lot about Krashen's ideas on this blog. Fundamentally because they focus so well on what is "essential"…

I think that when it comes to learning a language and typical schools, classes, coursebooks, exercises, instruction,…

I've started growing a garden. Moved into the mountains of Nicaragua and there is a nice plot of land beside the…