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Welcome to the new and improved self-study bundle!

Dear teacher, Thank you for choosing the new and improved self-study bundle, which will help you pass your oral exam in a targeted and effective way. Please read this page with important information about how to: Let’s get going! How to redeem your 2 bonus courses With the new bundle, you can get 2 extra courses to practise your lesson planning skills as a little present from us to you. To redeem your free courses, follow the steps below: You will then be enrolled onto the courses for a month, completely free of charge! Remember to do this before the end of your month as the coupon code will expire. How to choose which courses to prioritise Now you have 6 courses preparing you for the oral exam: that’s great, but how can you choose where to start? Our recommendation is to focus on your priorities, especially if you don’t have a lot of time. Here are our suggestions: How… Read More »Welcome to the new and improved self-study bundle!

Artificial intelligence and English language teaching: are we doomed?

It was 2010. I can remember it as if it were yesterday. It was my first day on the job at an accredited language academy and my first time using an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB). I must say I was excited and quite impressed by it. I remember some of my new colleagues who had attended training sessions on how to use this amazing piece of technology giving me some tips and helping me out. I just felt like the potential was tremendous. But after a few months, I realized that most of us simply used the IWB as a regular whiteboard that basically served as the background for us to project slides onto. How many times has this happened in ELT or general education? How many times has a promising new tech tool become quite unimpressive in just a few months? Perhaps these tools were just fancy ways to do things we already did quite well. I can’t help but… Read More »Artificial intelligence and English language teaching: are we doomed?