Nov 15th, 2009
by Barbara.
(Note: If this is the first post you’ve read in this series, and you’re mystified by the PLN acronym, start with What’s a PLN, anyway?) The seven guest authors for the “Front Lines of EFL” series have been the members of my personal learning network I’ve shared with most intensively in the past few weeks, [...]
Nov 3rd, 2009
by RobinThailand.
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL I teach in an International School in Bangkok. The “internationality” of the school is an interesting term, as there really are two languages spoken here — English and Thai — and not necessarily in that order. There used to be signs posted around the [...]
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL Imagine a persistent traveller who suddenly sees an ominous mountain in front of her obstructing her way. Determined to arrive to her destination, she climbs up the steep slope, ignoring the surrounding thorns and other invisible dangers. What is her eventual reward? She has [...]
Oct 22nd, 2009
by ShellTerrell.
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL When I first began teaching very young English language learners in Germany, I went a bit insane! Kids climbed the walls literally and flew the paper airplanes I had actually thought would be a creative lesson plan. With 14 children running around and yelling, [...]
Oct 20th, 2009
by troynahumko.
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL At any moment between 4:30 and 8pm here in Spain, thousands of unqualified people are standing in front of children pretending to be teachers. This, however, is not a game of make believe played by kids with bits of chalk in their hands, [...]
Oct 11th, 2009
by StevenHerder.
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL Committed to learning After 20 years in the EFL classroom, I still learn new things all the time. Certainly, here in Japan, the students are completely different than they were back in 1989; in those days, they all sat up straight, had their hair [...]
Oct 7th, 2009
by daylemajor.
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL I teach in a rural area of South Korea at a couple of middle schools: one is located about 10 minutes about outside the city and has about 190 students whom I see three days a week; the other school is in the countryside [...]
Part of the series: Stories from the Front Lines of EFL “To teach is to touch lives forever.” Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to be an English teacher! It was because my mum was my kindergarten teacher. She was so creative, engaging and inspiring that I wanted to be a teacher [...]
Sep 16th, 2009
by Barbara.
Do you remember the Indian fable about blind men describing an elephant? Depending on which body part they touched, they described a very different animal. At times, trying to describe English as a Foreign Language for young learners feels a bit like describing an elephant. There are two things common to young learner EFL classes: they [...]
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