Interview with one of our @englishaddicts authors

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Brad
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  This week I had the opportunity to interview one of our English Addicts authors, Aimée Johansen, who is also an English Teacher here in France.  During our exchange, I was reminded of a realization I had at the open mic/talent show at Tesol France this year… We TEFLers are indeed an interesting bunch with wildly diverse backgrounds and all kinds of tricks up our sleeves.  Without further ado, here’s our back n’ forth:   1)  Aimée, I was checking out your teacher profile at Telecom Bretagne and noticed that you completed your doctoral studies with a dissertation on  “The Clause (…)

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Wahoo! A snazzy new home page

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Brad
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  What did websites look like five years ago and can you imagine what the wild bells n whistles they’ll have in 5 years ?  I think we might be in for some surprises, yet!     Speaking of which, our website just got a make-over… and maybe I need one too?   I’m very happy with my team’s hard work, so do take a peek here and let me know what you think. The pay what you want offer has been churning away and orders are coming in from all over the globe which is wonderful as it is (…)

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Where does your coffee come from… and your teaching resources?

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Brad
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  Here’s our coffee machine at Edulang.  Makes a delicious cup o’ joe.   The coffee’s organic, fair Trade… not local but this part of France just ain’t warm enough We buy whole beans as it tastes better, and one of the programmers uses the leftover grinds for compost in his garden.  Something about that whole process feels… right.   Buying organic feels right, but why ? One of my favorite discussions every semester in class is when I ask my students what they ate for breakfast, and then ask where it came from.  My ‘goal’ is to just keep (…)

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5 quotes to share with language learners

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Brad
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Last week I was blown away by the wonderful quotes shared by educators from all over the world.  If you haven’t checked out them out, it’s worth a click-through here. Continuing with the same trend, I thought of quotes that I like sharing with my students, quotes that flip the way they may think of learning and language.  Here are a few of my favorites that I’ve found can even get a discussion going.   Feel free to share your own below.   “Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” -Benjamin Lee Whorf, Linguist (…)

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Blog challenge: a quote that defines your teaching style

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Brad
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    It seems every month there’s a new entrance in the blogosphere and it is such a pleasure when that new person’s angle brings something fresh to your own practice.  Jemma Gardner comes to mind when I say this.  She raised an issue in her recent post (with a whopping 73 comments) that has sparked my first blog challenge of 2012. She discussed attitude and quoted Scott Thornsbury’s A-Z of ELT: “Your attitude to language learning is the way you feel about it”. (page 20).  However, Jemma encouraged her readers to substitute “teaching” for “learning”.   What is your attitude towards (…)

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