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I teach one "Free Talking" class here in Austria - to a very small class of students who've mostly just returned from a year as exchange students somewhere in the world - the US, Canada, Hong-Kong, Singapore and Australia, to be precise. The class is actually a culture-awareness class, because the t...

It depends on the student's ability to express herself/himself. Sometimes it's very instructive to read what had actually been bugging them, or how they justify their actions to you. It can be a way of getting aggressions off their chest, and for some, it's actually easier to do this in English than...

Sometimes students *appear* unmotivated because student participation hasn't been encouraged in the past - in fact, errors may have been corrected in front of everybody else, and this may have been a source of embarrassment, especially when it happened to someone who considered mistakes as something...

I've been using the PBS-series "Building Big" in my classroom, and it went down extremely well with my engineering students. They just loved it, irrespective of their individual level of competence, because David Macauley managed to stimulate their interest in a pretty unique way. Has anybody got an...

"English for a specific purpose" used to primarily comprise technical English - for example, technicians would be required to read and understand manuals and to write simple instructions, nurses would have to be able to understand prescriptions, engineers would have to be able to interpret datasheet...