Foreign Language Aptitude
Experience tells us that some people learn a second or foreign language with greater ease, more quickly,…
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The Non-native Speaker Teacher
‘Non-native English-speaking teachers’ (NNESTs) have tended to be conceptualized within ELT along the same lines as NNS…
Anaphora
Anaphora (from the Greek for ‘a carrying back’) is used in linguistics to describe the process of…
Rapport
Most teachers would probably say they recognize good rapport when they experience it or are, on occasions,…
Project Work
A project is an extended task which usually integrates language skills work through a number of activities….
Task-Based-Learning and Pedagogy
The task-based approach to language teaching has evolved in response to a better understanding of the way…
Deductive vs Inductive
Deductive reasoning applies a general rule to particular instances while inductive reasoning involves inference from the particular…
Fluency
The term fluency has acquired two rather different meanings in ELT. The first is similar to a…
Washback and Impact
It has long been believed that tests directly influence educational processes in various ways. One common assumption…
Lexical Chunks
Although vocabulary has conventionally been conceptualized as individual words, it has now become clear that much of…