“I have a dyslexic student and am not sure how or even whether to help them.” I have a student, Alessandro, 37, who is a musician in his spare time and a software programmer by day. At school he was slow at reading and writing but excelled at physics and Read more…
“What kind of language do I need to steer my students to avoid?” Most learners want to be understood as much as understand, and this involves a need to not only know the language item in question, but to apply it appropriately. Hymes (1972) termed this communicative competence and defined Read more…
“Should I teach my students swearwords?” Absofuckinglutely! Of course, in practice, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Swearwords are all around us, for sure, whether in songs, in film, on TV and in print, and so your students are likely to come across them sooner or later and many Read more…