Multi-word verbs: Learner problems

      Multi-word verbs are complex and present problems for learners both in terms of their grammatical form and their lexical meaning.

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      Listening to body language

      Body language isn't something that naturally springs to mind when we think about developing our students' listening skills. After all, you can't hear body language.

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      Teaching online

       When, in a speech in Cape Town in 1966, Robert F Kennedy invented the 'ancient Chinese curse', "May he live in interesting times" he might well have been talking about education at the beginning of the 21st century;

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      Conveying meaning

      When teaching any language whether it is a word, a phrase or a verb form, at some point it will be essential to convey and check that your students have understood the meaning.

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      Sociocultural awareness in ELT

      The sociocultural element in learning is particularly sensitive in EFL because in acquiring a language there is, to some extent, an appropriation of a cultural identity too.

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      Thinking frames 2: Logical Levels

       In this series of articles I want to explore with you a number of different filters you can fix onto the lens of your thinking camera.

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      Text in language classrooms: TALO, TAVI and TASP

      One of the enormous benefits of the Internet has been the accessibility of loads and loads of English texts for teachers to use with their learners.

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      The noun phrase

      For too long now the verb phrase has been the dominant focus of attention in course books, syllabuses, and teacher training programmes.

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      Concordancers in ELT

      Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in the power and abilities of computers to digitise, store and analyse text.

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      Timelines

      "I am sorry, I don't understanding 'temporary repeated action', and why you have said 'Present consequence of a completed event in the past at an unspecified time or a state which commenced at a point of time in the past and continues until the present time and in all likelihood will continue into the future time?'

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