Rod Ellis presenting While in Toronto for TESOL 2015 convention  last month, I also attended - for the first time - the AAAL (Americ...

I often make students (and teachers I work with) get out of their seats. I think movement in the classroom is important whether you believ...

Video is often used in the EFL classroom for listening comprehension activities, facilitating discussions and, of course, language work. But...

Image by Peter Megyeri on Flickr (CC BY 2.0) My interest in experimental practice was piqued at the TESOL France’s last annual colloqu...

Photo by Tzvi Meller As much as it seems counter-intuitive, teaching new vocabulary in semantic sets (e.g. jobs: doctor, teacher, lawye...

Image source: www.universalstudiosentertainment.com I use a lot of films in my teaching: not just occasional Youtube clips but full-len...

I have recently received an email from a colleague, an EFL teacher in Israel, about how her students find it difficult differentiating betwe...

Image by photosteve101   on  Flickr www.planetofsuccess.com/blog Diigo is a social bookmarking tool which allows you to save and acces...

Let's start with a warmer... Which of these tasks or exercises do you normally see in coursebooks? Look at the highlighted ...

Introducing students to the idea of lexical priming and a web tool called Netspeak Photo by Tzvi Meller In my previous post from the ...

In the second installment of his thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable “Dissing Dogme” series (see here ), Hugh Dellar addresses th...

Who is sloppier when it comes to grammar or should we all just get over it? A recent discussion on a teachers’forum has made me wonder a...

Blog visitors poll Leoxicon is about to clock up ten thousand visitors and I thought I should do something to celebrate this achievement. ...

This follows on my earlier post Teaching vocabulary out of context: is it worth the time? About a month ago I blogged about my mini acti...

Round-up My blog celebrates its first birthday today. It’s been a busy year so I haven’t blogged as often as I should have – probably bel...

Those of you who have been to my workshops or read my articles on TeachingEnglish  are perhaps surprised why someone who advocates teachin...

It is the time of year when the ELT blogosphere celebrates its heroes – dedicated teachers who, with unrelenting enthusiasm an...

Sometime in March the day after the Oscar ceremony, one of my Facebook friends posted: Mazal Tov to the King's Speech! to which I...

Summary of my talk at the MOFET  Institute on 15 February 2011 Post-intermediate EFL learners already have a command of grammar struc...