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My name is Brian Grover and I teach at Andong National University in South Korea. I'm looking to partner with a class, somewhere in Asia preferably due to time zones, to create a timeline of American Literature from late 19th Century up until the 21st Century using Sutori. I'm hoping to do this in c...

My name is Brian Grover and I teach at Andong National University in South Korea. I'm looking to partner with a class, somewhere in Asia preferably due to time zones, to create a timeline of American Literature from late 19th Century up until the 21st Century using Sutori. I'm hoping to do this in c...

You can use simple word association exercises to quickly generate topics on the fly. Use something that I call Guided Word Associations to focus topical choice by limiting prompts to financial words such as "banking" or "money" or even "theft." The idea is to move from prompt to related associations...

I'm guessing that's British English you are talking about old chap. On this side of the pond we can indeed say "Fish & Chips Shop." I suppose it's the sibilance that makes it possible. Likewise we would say "The Simpsons Show." In both cases the adjectival part is taken as a single, unbreakable piec...

Use of the students' native language in the classroom by the teacher is verboten, imho. Some teachers will argue that doing so improves efficiency but what it really does is rob the student of a small but not insignificant chance at real communication. That's instead of a lot of the pretend -- and n...

Did you know the survey is closed? If what you are surveying about is related to the use of games in the classroom [the topic of this forum] then your friend might be interested in the long running Games Use Survey as additional raw material for his/her paper. You can see an overview of the results ...

I’m putting the finishing touches on a textbook, some aspects of which I’ve presented on at various English teaching conferences in North America. It's called Catalyst: A Conversation Taskbook for English Language Learners and I have a question about the use of Canadianized spellings. Though the boo...