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Selling English tuition
Business card promoting private English tuition In Iran, as in many other countries around the globe, the craze for learning English has been on the rise. This tendency is attributed to, inter alia,...
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“We do aid, not English!”
Should ‘helping with English’ be part of the brief of humanitarian aid workers? (Source: helpage.org) Over a few years of involvement in the aid sector in Asia, I became aware that aid workers turn...
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English and development aid work
An East Timorese girl speaking Bunak, Tetum, Fataluku and Portuguese (Source: Wikipedia) A response to Alexandra Grey, “We do aid, not English” In my experience English is often promoted by aid...
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On learning languages and the gaining of wisdom
The National Institute of the English Language in Tehran has used the slogan “A new language is a new life” for more than 50 years I’m preparing my lecture on “Internationalization and Multilingualism”...
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Partnering for the Future
PASCH Schools: Partners for the future Last week I was privileged to attend the 3rd Conference of School Principals of PASCH Schools in Southeast Asia. A ‘PASCH school’ is a regular secondary school...
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Taiwan’s love affair with American English
Ad for a private English language school in Taiwan: the normalization of American English is obvious in the name and imagery There is no denying the fact that English has become the global lingua...
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Is English improving lives in a remote Indonesian village?
The house of the English high school teacher in the village in Sulawesi where Pasassung conducted his fieldwork In a recent post, I reviewed language policy research that shows how compulsory English...
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English-teaching superstars
Star teacher Ruby Hsu (Source: ruby.com.tw) The global English language learning boom has resulted not only in a huge number of English learners but also created a tremendous demand for English...
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Hottest English teaching method
Carrie Chen’s successful chalk-and-talk method In my previous post, I discussed the celebrity status of star teachers in Taiwan. Although their good looks and personality do play a key role in a star...
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Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan
TADIT – Teachers Against Discrimination in Taiwan Imagine yourself on the shores of your ancestral homeland, where your parents and grandparents grew up, where the stories you heard as a child took...
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English language learning injustice
In English language teaching ads English seems always fun, easy and accessible to everyone Taiwanese people’s motivation for learning English is a desire to communicate and a major obstacle to the...
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Applied Linguistics@MQ: Native and non-native English teachers in Taiwan
Native and non-native English teachers in Taiwan (Source: williamschool.com.tw) The Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University are back. The next one will be held on Tuesday, August 13:...
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Strolling in Barcelona with Sanskrit and Devanāgarī
Tapas bar Samsara Strolling in Barcelona’s city center reveals an astounding variety of spoken languages: there are the languages used by the throngs of visitors coming from literally everywhere, and...
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