Great jobs for bright people
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
