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Kickstarting your own ELT publication

Paul Raine - September 18, 2013

We previously interviewed Marcos Benevides, award-winning ELT author, about his thoughts on Extensive Reading, and his motivations for adapting the world-famous Choose Your Own Adventure series for learners of English…

Taking a language learning card game to market: An interview with Sean Anderson

Paul Raine - August 27, 2013

In this interview, Sean Anderson talks about his experience devising, developing and marketing his own English language learning card game, Question Quest. He describes  the challenges he faced, and the…

30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)

Paul Raine - March 17, 2013

In this interview, Marc Helgesen talks about the changes the English teaching community in Japan has witnessed over the last 30 years, the importance of “positive psychology” in language pedagogy,…

30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)

Paul Raine - March 17, 2013

Marc Helgesen talks about his greatest and most embarrassing moments as an English teacher, reminisces about the halcyon days of Japan’s bubble economy, and offers advice to those hoping to…

Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)

Paul Raine - July 1, 2012

In the first part of this interview, Marcos Benevides talked about what Extensive Reading actually is, and how it can be implemented and assessed by English language teachers. Here, the…

Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)

Paul Raine - June 30, 2012

The 5th Extensive Reading conference is taking place this weekend in Nagoya, but what exactly is ‘Extensive Reading’, and how can it be utilized by teachers and learners of English?…

Curriculum Vitae

Create a Top TEFL CV

Louisa Walsh - October 6, 2011

As someone who has advertised for EFL teachers in the past, let me share some general truths about employers during the recruitment process. An employer’s time is short.  They are…

Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)

Paul Raine - September 27, 2011

In this interview, Mario Passalacqua talks about teaching young learners of English, and living and working in a post-tsunami Sendai. Mario moved to Japan to teach English in 1997, after…

English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)

Paul Raine - August 28, 2011

In part one of this interview, Aki talked about the lack of work/life balance for many Japanese people, the benefits of working in an English conversation school, and the impact…

English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)

Paul Raine - August 28, 2011

There has been a lot written by English teachers about their experiences living and working in Japan. But how about the perspective from the Japanese side? I interviewed Aki, an…

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