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Learning Styles
A discussion is needed about the importance of offering students a range of learning experiences I always feel aware of learners' frustrations when I watch classes based purely on reading and writing...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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How Well Do You Communicate?
I've noticed how many schools have difficulties that, when analyzed, are essentially communication problems...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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New Intake Of Teachers
Many new teachers will be preparing to set off for exciting new locations to take up teaching positions in September...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Quality Assurance
I was talking to a DOS [Director of Studies] recently who told me how she hated having to do lesson observations...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Business Management
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Materials On A Limited Budget
Since the London bomb attacks, I have been thinking a lot about the courageous people there who have to go about their daily business despite the threat...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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Older Teachers
I met a retired engineer the other day and she told me she was half way through a TEFL training course...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Do You Know How Your Students Want To Learn?
Learner power is the topic of this article I wonder how many school directors think about asking their students how they want to learn...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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How Do Cultural Values Influence Behavior?
I am very interested in how cultural values influence behavior This is also true of our linguistic behavior...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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Your Passport To The World - Teaching English Abroad
Teaching English in a foreign country can be an incredible challenge...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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How Long Is An ESL Working Week?
It seems that some schools combine long hours with revolving days off so that teachers find it hard to recharge their batteries, let alone keep up the quality of their teaching...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Health Matters
I guess nobody likes thinking about what can go wrong with the recruitment process We all like to think we are reasonable employers, offering a fair package in return for a professional job...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Business Management
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Is A Degree In ESL Worth It?
A recent poll asked whether English teachers should have a degree of some type Approximately 64% of the respondents thought they should have a degree for teaching ESL: quite a high "yes" because, as always, there were some "don't know" meanings that makes the "no" camp very small...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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Can You Get Teachers To Love Admin?
I recently discussed a recurring issue following this question from an employer:
“My teachers do an excellent job in the classroom and feedback from students is positive...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Teaching Contracts
I often hear teachers complain that employers issue contracts and then ask them to do more than the contract requires...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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An Acronym By Any Other Name
I don't know about you but I loathe acronyms Yes, I know they have a convenience factor but they also seem to me to be potentially sinister, redolent of George Orwell's Newspeak...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Better Late Then Never
Whenever I talk to teachers I don't usually have to wait long before they start listing their concerns about students...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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Forewarned Is Forearmed
The teacher can represent a coveted trophy or a sympathetic ally to an impressionable young student If the society is not tolerant of such relationships, the student may be further stimulated by the idea of "forbidden fruit"...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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Choosing A Timetabling Software
Recently, I was asked for information about timetabling software I don't feel I can recommend a particular product as each school will have different requirements, but I thought it would be worth discussing some of the issues involved in choosing software appropriate to your needs...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Business Management
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To Teach Business English?
Mid-career crisis Have you got what it takes to teach English for business...
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Native Speakers?
In a recent poll, I asked readers if they thought English language teachers should be native speakers...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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Language And Culture
The native/non-native-speaking-teacher issues open a whole can of worms of how standards are regulated...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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Entre Nous
Non-native speaker to non-native speaker
In thinking about the ways English is evolving, we have to recognize that it is frequently a lingua franca between non-native speakers...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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The Hallmarks Of A Professional Teacher
Have you ever wondered what the qualities of a really professional teacher are I know that all teachers want their students to like them, but being liked isn't the be-all and end-all really, is it...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Education
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Dangerous Liaisons
We've all met them They're young, handsome, newly qualified and out to see the world...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Career
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English Teachers And Culture Shock
I was talking recently to a young woman who had just returned from a teaching post in Korea She said her first months in her job were a nightmare because of the unfamiliarity of everything...
Author: Brenda Townsend Hall - Category: Culture
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