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Author Archives: Simon Borg
Teacher evaluation
Two new reports on teacher evaluation were launched this week. The first is a global literature review of teacher evaluation, which examines different ways of evaluating teachers and makes recommendations for teacher evaluation in ELT. One interesting insight from this … Continue reading
Why do teachers assess English the way they do?
I’ve been based in Slovenia for a few years now and regularly come across examples of how English is assessed in primary schools. I don’t know with empirical certainty how typical what I see is but I’m tempted to believe … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, professional development
Tagged English for young learners, primary school, Slovenia, teaching grammar
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Teachers, Research and Methodology Textbooks
I’ve just returned from the ELTRIA conference at the University of Barcelona on the theme of bridging the gap between research and practice. Scott Thornbury spoke there about an interesting line of inquiry he has initiated looking into how methodology … Continue reading
Posted in professional development, research
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The Impact of Action Research
To mark the publication of the reports from the 2015 cohort of teachers on the Cambridge English-English Action Research scheme, I wrote a short piece about action research that reflects on the work of these teachers. It has not appeared on-line … Continue reading
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Long live grammar teaching (or ‘It ain’t over till the fat lady sings’)
In the last 20 years, repeated messages in the literature about communicative and task-based approaches, and the uptake of these approaches in contemporary coursebooks, may have created the impression that a ‘modern’ approach to grammar teaching is now a universal … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, professional development, teacher cognition
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