Remembering and using new words in speech is often a challenge for language learners. Quite often, this causes them to shy away from speaking. I’ve described 10 strategies that may help language learners make words “sticky” in my new article…
Roses are red, violets are blue, colour can be used with adult learners too. Numerous studies have shown that colour breaks the monotony, adds variety, has a significant impact on our emotion and mood, helps us focus more and remember…
Recent research suggests that boredom might have many benefits, including increased creativity. A researcher from the University of Central Lancashire carried out the following experiment. She split students into two groups and had one group carry out a humdrum task…
Our planet holds a wide variety of unexplained phenomena, including the Sphinx, Bermuda Triangle, a Mayan crystal skull, the Great Pyramid, and now the Red Truck. Why on Earth the Jackson Hole Town Square livestream place became one of the most…
“Split into small teams and …”? In 1913, a French scientist Max Ringelmann performed a simple experiment. He asked workers to pull on a rope alone and in groups and measured the strain. As group size increased, the amount of…
I’ve always been fascinated by the story about Betty Crocker and how the company succeeded in designing the experience of making a cake. The company turned the whole process of baking into a simple matter of adding water, but they…
– Why are you not using puppets in class? – We have no puppets. They say that if you fold an A4 sheet of paper 103 times, its thickness will roughly be the size of the Universe. I don’t know…
Homework Matters For nearly two decades, James Randi Educational Foundation has been offering a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who could show, ‘under proper observing conditions’, evidence of any supernatural or paranormal power. Unfortunately for teachers, the only super power which…
Fluency Matters: How to Help Learners Keep the Conversation Going They say that every chef has his or her own way of making the broth. Similarly, every teacher has his or her own way of leading learners through the journey…
