Blogs from Work/Life English
Why Care About Consonants?
How to Teach (Yourself) How to Pronounce 24 American-English Consonant Sounds So what’s funny about consonants? There’s a plethora of tongue twisters, puns, letter omissions, word substitutions, and other humor...
Why Care About Consonants?
How to Teach (Yourself) How to Pronounce 24 American-English Consonant Sounds So what’s funny about consonants? There’s a plethora of tongue twisters, puns, letter omissions, word substitutions, and other humor...
How to Teach English Learners to Pronounce 16 A...
Why does humor almost always come first in these blog posts? To help you, the reader, to relax about the “serious educational stuff” that follows. So here’s how (the [mis]pronunciation...
How to Teach English Learners to Pronounce 16 A...
Why does humor almost always come first in these blog posts? To help you, the reader, to relax about the “serious educational stuff” that follows. So here’s how (the [mis]pronunciation...
The Joys of Receptive Listening: Why We'd Much ...
Think about it. Would you really rather talk than listen? Most people think or say they would. Much of the wisdom or humor about oral communication is based on this...
The Joys of Receptive Listening: Why We'd Much ...
Think about it. Would you really rather talk than listen? Most people think or say they would. Much of the wisdom or humor about oral communication is based on this...
Listen Up! Why Listening is the Most Important ...
The most important language skill? Listening! The most challenging language skill? Listening! The most important language skill or ability for (native and non-native English) teachers and students of any subject? It’s listening! Deficiencies...
Listen Up! Why Listening is the Most Important ...
The most important language skill? Listening! The most challenging language skill? Listening! The most important language skill or ability for (native and non-native English) teachers and students of any subject? It’s listening! Deficiencies...
Grieving the Ending of the Grammar Grind?
Graduate to Grading, Game Play, and Gift-Giving. Much has been said about “Educational Beginnings”—recruiting students, motivating learning, setting a can-do tone, facilitating interaction, and supplying tools needed for success. But...
Grieving the Ending of the Grammar Grind?
Graduate to Grading, Game Play, and Gift-Giving. Much has been said about “Educational Beginnings”—recruiting students, motivating learning, setting a can-do tone, facilitating interaction, and supplying tools needed for success. But...
Which Came First—the Chicken or To Cook an Egg?
It’s a traditional (down)loaded question, of course. How many ways are there to answer it “correctly”—linguistically, competitively, graphically, scientifically, practically, philosophically, intuitively, personally, spiritually, or what else? Do the Grammar....
Which Came First—the Chicken or To Cook an Egg?
It’s a traditional (down)loaded question, of course. How many ways are there to answer it “correctly”—linguistically, competitively, graphically, scientifically, practically, philosophically, intuitively, personally, spiritually, or what else? Do the Grammar....