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My latest article for EFL Magazine

Using First Language In One-To-One Classes - EFL Magazine Using First Language In One-To-One Classes by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

My new post in EFL Magazine.

One-to-One: Creating Comfort - EFL Magazine One-to-One: Creating Comfort by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

I'm currently teaching a teenage 1-2-1 student and in this post I'm sharing some techniques that I've found to work well.

Materials for one-to-one lessons: 8 ideas Recently I've been working very intensively with the most difficult kind of student you can imagine - an undisciplined and unmotivated teenage boy. I'd like to share some ideas that let me survive ...

My new post on learner autonomy in the EFL Magazine.

One-to-one: Promoting Learner Autonomy - EFL Magazine One-to-one: Promoting Learner Autonomy by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

I was asked a question in an ELT workshop: "Where should a beginner teacher start his or her reading?"

My answers off the top of my head were:
- Jim Scrivener "Learning Teaching"
- Scott Thornbury "A-Z of ELT"
- Luke Meddings, Scott Thornbury "Teaching Unplugged" (this one is very subjective, I know).

How would you answer this question?

This passage from from Scott Thornbury's blog is one of my favourite ELT quotes:

"Lucrezia’s teaching method was clever. She invited me to gossip away in Italian as best I could, discussing what I would ordinarily discuss in English; when stumped for the next expression, I’d pause. She’d then provide the missing word. I’d write it down in a notebook I kept week after week. … Day after day I trekked to Lucrezia’s and she tore out the seams of my shoddy, ill-fitting Italian and found ways to tailor it to my needs and interests.”

https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/

An A-Z of ELT Scott Thornbury's blog