Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

Context is such a tricky aspect of English teaching. Too much emphasis on context causes students to offload spurious facts and details. Too...

A03: Show understanding of the relationships between texts and contexts in which they were written. 15% of the overall Literature GC...

This is a blog about my talk for the TLT13, which took place yesterday at Southampton University. Before I even start I will apologise now i...

Over the years I have taught Shakespeare’s context good, bad and ugly. I have taught it as a lecture or I have made students do an infamous ...