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		<title>Teaching with real issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I mentioned how great my first new debate class went because we just talked and covered interesting issues. Well, I&#8217;ve kept at it. Every lesson has started with an audio or listening just to give students some cultural background and then I&#8217;ve let the topic develop anywhere it wants. Some lessons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=490&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A BIG secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a secret and it&#8217;s a BIG one. So big that it may destroy my career but I&#8217;ve decided to share it before I am uncovered by the EFL press and unmasked as a fraud. For underage, elderly or any readers with weak constitutions, look away now! My secret is&#8230;..         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=293&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EFL Experiment 2: The ultimate Dogme criticisms and responses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year seems to have brought a fresh wave of critical Dogme posts and blogs. Many of these criticisms are fair but often not posed by people who have really got their hands dirty and given Dogme a proper go. It is easy to just read a blog post or Scott and Luke&#8217;s book or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=452&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photocopier copying: Are you bending the rules? Confession is open!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come confess one and all! Most of us teachers are familiar with photocopiers and in fact, I’ve never seen a resources room without at least one of them and sometimes a secret one stashed away for emergencies. They may be used for copying registers and reports but the vast majority of their life is usually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=438&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let me edutain you, bam bam bam!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, sorry if you don&#8217;t know the Robbie Williams song and maybe you are sorry if you do but I couldn&#8217;t resist. EFL is a  strange profession in that many people who say they are EFLers aren&#8217;t. For instance, some are ESPers, BEers, EAPers, ESOLers or even content teachers yet we are all put under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=121&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worthless?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[               &#8221;In France your qualifications and experience are worthless&#8221; A French university head of department said this to me last year in an interview. This was in reference to CELTA, MA etc. And surprisingly they still offered me a job. He then went on to explain that unless you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=249&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do ELFs have for breakfast?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELF or rather English as a Lingua France or even WORLD ENGLISH or possibly GLOBAL ENGLISH or GLOBISH. Whatever you call it problems may arise or rather are already arising from what it is and what it means. For myself, I see the issue from a food lover&#8217;s perspective and categorise the possibilities with that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=393&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much are you worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of pay has always been a sensitive one. I recently came across 2 adverts which shocked me, both concerned pay: 1)La rémunération proposée est de 17,00 € Brut /heure. =17 Euros before any taxes=13 euros an hour 2)Our online school offers qualified teachers $9 per class before tax =7 Euros an hour Both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=194&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the great comments on my last post I&#8217;ve decided to air some questions I have about schools and the running there of. Thoughts and opinions on these, especially from managers, directors et al, are most welcome. 1)What is the best structure for a school? Is it the traditional:         [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=378&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you fit in?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not so long ago in a far away galaxy I was told that I &#8220;didn&#8217;t fit in&#8221; by a boss in an appraisal. When I asked for more clarification the reasons were related to my style of teaching and my passion for teaching as opposed to meetings, admin and red tape. I was also ticked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eflthoughtsandreflections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30028367&amp;post=240&amp;subd=eflthoughtsandreflections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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