On perception of noise in the classroom
My first English teaching job was in a primary school. I still have nice memories of that time as I learnt a lot there – including the lesson from the incident that I’m about to tell you about. It happened in the spring of 1990, my first school year there. We were doing a speaking [...]
A moral dilemma for ELT materials writers
For reasons that will become clear very soon, I’ve changed all the factual details in this post. A few days ago I received an e-mail with a rather disturbing subject line: “Please don’t use the circumstances of my father’s death in your exercises”. The sender explained that he felt it was “cruel and unkind for [...]
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