The teacher of a subject is often the very best person to know what their students need. This includes knowing what resources will be most effective for the cohort. Knowing what your students or your self could benefit from and having the time to create those resources though are two different …
Making language relevant in regional areas
The challenge of building a profile for language courses in what Tony Liddicoat has described as the “monolingual mindset of Australia” is well known. If those of us struggle to do so in metropolitan areas when we have access to resources such as restaurants staffed by native speakers, foreign …
Improving productive skills via contemporary issues
If you are looking for a different way to develop your students speaking, reading and writing skills in Japanese, then perhaps you should try this controversial method. One of the challenges of a language teacher, particularly at the secondary level, is that the level of target language …
