Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

  I have experience of working with students of all levels, but one of the biggest issues I find with writing fluency is not often related t...

One of the things about oracy is that we often focus on the what rather than the how students speak. Communication is much more than words a...

I’ve discussed at length how English cannot be reduced to a simple checklist of things. There seems to be an endless desire to homogenise su...

In terms of metacognition, cognitive load and cognitive load theory is one of the biggest concerns of any English teacher. We might not dres...

Today, I am writing a eulogy for someone very close to me. Like most people, I’ve put things off. For example,  I’ve been tempted to search ...