Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters

A friend got me a little worried earlier this week – she said “I almost never have anything to add to your posts” and wondered what it is that others do to generate comments. Should I be worried? Is there something that I am doing wrong? If so, how can I do better? My worry [...]

In his blog post A vast Pool of Human Knowledge, Neglected, Darren Elliott, like a true teacher, gave us all a little bit of homework for the weekend, which goes as follows: 1. Have a look through the archives of your favourite bloggers. You can usually find archives in the sidebar, click a tag or [...]

This is a quick post to publish the links and some of the videos shown to the members of TESOL Greece who attended my talk on March 15. With apologies to readers who were not present at this talk (if this doesn’t make sense to them) In the first part of my talk we looked [...]

I first became interested in social group theory quite a few years ago, mainly due to a great colleague and friend, Angi Malderez who I met during the 2nd International Conference ever offered in Istabul in 1992 (or 3?). At that time, that most excellent book, “Classroom Dynamics” (OUP ) and bearing a dedication to [...]

Twitter started out with the simple question “What are you doing?”, a teacher’s dream for realistic writing using the Present Continuous! In 140 characters, your response to that question was supposed to keep you up to speed with friends, family and colleagues around the world. Twitter in Plain English Millions of users do just that. [...]